Show SULLIVANS ANS ATTORNEYS ON DECK DECKWITH DECKWITH DECKWITH WITH A MESSAGE FROM GARCIA On tIle the eve of the day set for passing sentence upon Joe Sullivan Bailey and Vickery counsel for Sullivan gave gaye out a 0 aletter aletter letter which they assert that they re received received received three days ago The letter writ written written ten in a hand Is said to come from Garcia The attorneys also exhibit an envelop In which they say the letter came The envelop bears the Park City Cily postmark of ot the date of at March 25 Judge Armstrong this morning will hear and pass on the tho motion n for a new trial for Sullivan made by his attorneys The letter made public by Sullivans at attorneys attorneys attorneys yesterday follows The following letter purporting to be from Joe Garcia was received by b Bailey Balley Vickery attorneys for Mailed Park City Utah March 23 25 2 I have hae not left the country yet et I 1 did not think it safe to try to make my m way out until the excitement died down A friend of mine has kept me posted about bi ut the trial Owen and I 1 robbed the saloon and the d dd d fool shot an officer without any reason for it It was a fool tool piece of work Sullivan had nothing 10 to o do 10 with it ithe Ithe Ithe he was as looking for n a chance to get out of town when the robbery occurred I would have got Owen out of town safe but he was plum crazy that night He ran first one way Wa then another He was crazy or he would pot not have shot the cop for there was no use to shoot him none on earth and he was still crazier after he shot him Sullivan left us and started to look for a car to get out of town saying the officers of Salt Lake and Ogden have got it in for me I have never had hat anything but h hU U since I 1 struck Utah 1 I got the cash while Owen stood guard gU rd Owen was excited about getting away aa he started to run as soon as we got out outside outside Outside side Ther There was no use of ot this as we could have walked oft off ot quietly and never neer been b en noticed I ran to overtake him and ana keep him from making a fool of himself We Ve saw an officer and without any rea reason reason reason son yelled to him to throw up his hands and then Owen shot him before he could put them up or do anything I tried to reason with Owen and tried to get him put out of town but he was plum crazy I knew if he got caught he would lay the murder to Sullivan and me and i J knew of a certainty he would get caught if he kept running around like a crazy shoes sheen Now SNow this is all I know about It I ex cx expect expect to o stay around for tor a few months yet et and then hike for good Ill never n ver be caught just make a note of ot that The They will have bave to put a good deal of salt on this old bird before they catch him Its nothing to me if Sullivan and Owen both hang but Id kind of like to see justice done Both the Belchers know that the bul bullet bullet let Jet that killed the cop was too small for tor Sullivans gun or for tor my blue gun They know it was from my little white gun and Owen had that Signed GARCIA |