Show i I I I i I I I i III w I t jr I The New N ew Windsor n Hotel S P r DENIES HE HAS LED LEDA A A LIFE OF CRIME in Prepared Prep red Statement Murder Suspect Gives Story of His Life Hoping to Allay the Prejudice Against Him Joe oe Sullivan the th alleged highwayman who is accused of the murder of ot Po Policeman Policeman Ford has written a statement in which he gives the story of his past life Ufe His purpose In doing this was to create a better opinion of him among residents of o Salt Lake before his ap approaching approaching approaching trial on the charge of mur murder murder murder der Up to the time of ot the writing of his autobiography Sullivan had been silent concerning his past This cre created created the impression that he lie had a criminal record to conceal and dared not to go into details of his movements before Jils lis arrival in Utah Sullivan refuses to tell anything definite definite nite bite c his family explaining that he desires to shield them from sharing In his notoriety He declares that he was never in prison until he was sentenced to the Utah state penitentiary from Ogden He asserts that the police are in ter terror er error error when they assert that he attempted attempt ed highway robbery in Ogden The trouble he said grew out of a dis dispute dispute dispute in which he drew a revolver with which to defend himself against three assailants Concerning his attempt to break jail in ID Ogden ll and the cleverness he h dis displayed displayed displayed played in that line he declares his was due to t his training as a machinist and not because of a familiarity with the tricks of ot crim criminals crImInals Writes a Clear Hand Sullivans statement is written ritten in a clear round hand with a pencil It shows that the man Is better botter educated and more intelligent than the average aera e criminal of the class in which he is I put by the Ole police pollee In Iii a supplemental statement made to his lawyers law ers Bailey Vickery Vicker Sul Sullivan Sullivan livan says sas that he lie lived In a ten room house in the city elt of or New ew York and had lived in that house for elgh eighteen teen years before his departure for Panama In New York where ground is very ver valuable only families of con considerable considerable considerable wealth live in houses Most of the dwellers in the metropolis occupy flats For that rea yea reason reason son Sullivans father if iC his hi description description description tion of his childhood home is true must have hae been a man who occupied a substantial position in the world Sullivans statement Is as follows I was born in New York in the year 19 1570 and received rec ived what education I have In the public schools oos of that city It After leaving school I served my time at learning the machinist rna ma trade In a amarine amarine marine machine shop of r that city I worked there until 1897 when hen I shipped to Panama Central America I work worked worked worked ed in Panama anama at ata a small mahl town eighteen miles inland putting up steel bridges for the New ew Jersey Steel and Iron Ironwork Ironworks works work I stayed there about four months and then shipped aboard one Qt oC the Pacific Mall Mail Steamship com corn boats for San Francisco En route to Frisco I found out that the Vulcan Iron works arks of or Frisco had a contract from the Mexican gov government govI to build a breakwater for said I government at on the west coast c ast so I went ashore at and 1111 worked there at putting up ice I machines and am erecting a general ma machine maChine chine shop I Goes to San Francisco I stayed there six months when I Iwas Iwas was taken III with yellow fever As soon as I was convalescent I 1 took pas passage passage sage g for foa San Francisco where I se sei i ural ur 1 employment on tile the ships plying between en San Francisco and foreign n I ports pot ts T l worked aboard the Oceanic Steamship boats plying be between tween twe San Francisco and Sydney Sydner Aus Australia Australia halla I also worked aboard the time Pa Fa Pacific Mail Steamship boats plying between Frisco and Panama and aboard the United States army arm trans transports transports ports orts plying between Frisco and Ma Manila Manila nila tills I kept running on the different lines of o steamers out of oC Frisco until I w ws s thrown out of employment by bythe bythe bythe the big strike of or all the shipping in industries Industries industries when I went vent to Bakersfield Cal Cat I worked there in the new oil oilfields oilfields oilfields fields for the Reed Oil company of Stockton Cal Cat and I also worked for forthe forthe forthe the Stanislaus OH Oil company at Coalinga ga Cal Cat I also worked at some of the large packing houses of California in inthe Inthe the capacity of engineer I then came to Nevada where I 1 worked at the new tunnels on the Central Pacific railroad for tor Erickson P Peterson I then came to Ogden Oden Utah where I got into some trouble and I was tried on the tile charge of as assault assault assault sault with a deadly weapon w apon and sen sentenced to serve three years y ars In fn the Utah state prison I was alsO aIM sentenced to serve two years cars for far jail break k I have never been In prison in my life lIC until I came cameto to Utah Uth and I was never ar arrested arrested arrested rested or convicted until I hit Utah i Denies Story of Marriage The newspapers of Salt Lake have ot me tried convicted and sentenced before I am brought to trial They also accuse me of married a girl in tn Emery county Utah I will state this that I 1 never knew there was such a place as Emory Emery county m In Inthe the state of Utah until I read of the I assertion in the papers Time The man that wrote that article Js ls very much mis mistaken mistaken mistaken taken as a I have ever bever been married to anybody I either in Utah or any an other oth r part of the world The story of Sullivans came camerom from rom an apparently responsible source in Emery Imer mer county where Mrs Sulli Sullivans vans vann relatives live A woman known as Mrs Sullivan who was supposed to tobe tobe tobe be the wife of the time man now accused of killing Policeman Ford worked in inthe Inthe inthe the dressmaking department nt of a large department store in Salt Lake and left lefther lefther her position about the time of the shooting of the policeman and the hunt for Sullivan In respond to the questions of his lawyers Bailey Vickery Sullivan stated that he was wasa a Roman Catholic and had attended church regularly up to the th time he was 18 years old and left home His father he said was a business man He stated st ted that he had had ambitions in life at one time as aspiring aspiring aspiring to become chief chic engineer on a ship When asked if he had ever eer done any good or charitable act in his life lie he replied that he had helped lots iota of ot them but that he was never any nn hand to talk about it |