| Show THAT CIKK ROBBE Sr E A declares ke Is ln of the crime correspondence of the As your paper is noted for the fear less of truth if permitted oy you I 1 will through the medium j its columns make a statement in regard to my case which has just oben tried in the first judicial pis brict court at provo when twelve of luy fellow men found me guilty of it tempting to rob the nechi bauk on november I 1 find no with them no doubt they were prompted by the run of the evidence to find me guilty but I 1 want to declare to my friends enomie and all classes through these columns that I 1 am innocent so help me broj and the evidence that convicted me I 1 declare to the world is false and was cut and dried for the purpose it accomplished complis hed ia was wrote down learned by heart and recited like poetry on the witness stand to convict me by relations of the guilty parties I 1 now declare to the world and stake my life and everything that is near and dear to me that every word that has been said to convict me haa been to convict an innocent man I 1 stated the on witness was the foundation of all their evidence only I 1 did not get to explain what I 1 should have explained that would have made it plainer my intended wife knew just as much about it as I 1 did I 1 told her just what justensen told me on the evening of november I 1 told her I 1 did not think that he meant it but it showed that he was not contemplating keeping the promise he had made to his brothers not two months previous that if he got out of his then present trouble he would never get in any more her I 1 upbraided up braided nim and told him what he had better do instead of having such ideas as that and supposed that that woold be the last of it but alas where am I 1 today to day and where is that noble woman promised to prove true to I 1 am in jail convicted of a crime of am not guilty and she I 1 believe beli yve is on her death bed weighed down by graaf and almost heartbroken caused by persons once BUD posea friends who we have pleaded with to be just and right in their action but who have turned the hand of friendship into a hammer of destruction and left us prostrate as we are now found I 1 have fought for justice with all my power and have fought on just principles but could not combat with falsehoods of a liberty robbing mob and therefore will have to resign myself to look through prison bar until it is the will of god to reinstate me back to my loved one at home kind friends farewell EA JAIL |
