The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-01-09

"Didnt you choke and rape
woman on University Avenue last
FAM"
Nav"
Didn't YOU climb through
window oui in Englewood last
fall and rape a woman
Nav: nav. tell you didn't
you're not telling the truth,
boy, Lying won't get YOU any
where"
Il am telling the truth"
! "Whose idea was the kidnap
note? JAMS
"He didn't have nothing to do
with H." said bigger. feeling
keen desire on the mans part TO
have him implicate Jan
What's the use OF your holding
out. boy? Make il easy for your
self"
Why not talk and get II over
WITH They knew he was guilty.
They could prove II II he did not
talk. then they would say he had
tommitted every crime they could
think Of.
BOY. why didn't YOU and your
pals rob BUNS store like you'd
;lanned last Saturday.
Bigger looked at him in sur
prise. They had found that out,
too
You didn't think knew about
that. did you? | know lot more.
boy. know about that dirty trick
YOU and your friend Jack pulled
Of in the Regal theatre You
wonder how know what boys
like YOU do. Bigger Now. come
on. You wrote that kdnap note.
didn't your'
yeah he sighed Il wrote IT,"
Who helped you''
Nobody
"Who was going to help YOU to
collect the ransom money
"Ressie"
"Come on Vas II JAM"
"\aw'
Bessie"
Yeah
"Then why did you Kill hcrs'
Ncrvously Riccers finger FUN
bied with a pack OF cigarettes
and got out one The man struck
match and held light for him.
but he struck his own match and
ignored the offered flame
when saw couldn't get the
money. | killed her 10 keep her
from talking" he said.
Z
Il didn't mean 10 kill her. but
Il don't matter now" he said.
Did YOU lay herr"
"Naw"
"lou laid Bessie before YOU
killed her. The doctors said so.
And now YOU expect me to be-
licve you didn't lay Mary
II didn't
did Jan9'
"\aw "
Did Jan lay her first and then
: you?
Nav. nav
But Jan wrote the kidnap note,
didn't he?"
II never saw Jan before that
nicht.'
But didn't he write the note?"
Nav; tell YOU he didn't"
-lou wrote the note9'
yeah"
it,"
Nav"
why did you kill Nary?
lie did not answer.
See here boy What YOU say
doesn't make sense You were
never in the Dalton home until
Saturday night. Yet. in one night
girl Is raped, killed. burnt. and
the next night n kdnap note Is
sent. Come on. Tell me everything
hat happened and about every
body who helped you"
There wasn't nobody but me.
] don't care what happens 10 me.
but you can't make me say things
about other people"
But you told MIR. Dalton that
Jan was In this thing. too"
/ Il was trying to blame IL on
him"
We'll. come on. Tell me every
thing that happened"
Bigger rose and went 10 the
window. His hands caught the
cold steel bars In a hard grin.
lie knew as he stood there that
nc could never tell why he had
hlled. IL was not that he dId NOT
rally want to tell. but the telling
OF II would have involved an ex-
nlanation Of his entire life Tho
actual killing OF Mary and Bessie
was not what concerned him
most; II was knowing and feeling
.hat ne could never make any,
pouy Know what had driven him
10 ~ HIS crimes were known. hut
what he had felt before he com
mitted them would never ha
known' He would have gladly Adj
mltled his guilt II he had though,
mat IN doing so he could have
also given In the same breath +.
sense OF the deep. choking haze
ma 'nad been in his life. a hate
,nat had been In his life. A hate
pu' could not help having. How
could he do that? The impuIsion
!" Try TO tell was ss deep az had
heen the urge TO kill.
lie telt hand touch his shout
ger; ne did not turn round: his
eyes looked downward and saw
the mans cleaning black shoes
know how you feel. how
cure colored and you fee, thai
sou haven't had square deal.
ION your the mans voice came
s"w ana soft; and BIGGER lls'en-
ms mated him for telling him
M" ne knew was true. He rested