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Show IMAYBRAY SAYS THAT MISS GATES IS INSANE DES MOINES, T:u April 25." T am not 'Jim' McCann. I've been charged with about everything since my arrest, but I will say that Mrs. Lillian Gates, who accuses me, is insane." This was T. C. Maybray 's answer tonight to-night to the assertion of tho St. Louis woman that Maybray was Iho supposedly supposed-ly murdered St.' Louis horseman. Calling his wife to his cell, Ma3'bray told the story of his life. "I was born in Mississippi," lie said. "I was a cattle puncher on the plains of Wyoming with Mayor Dahlman of Omaha during tho early eighties until JSSS, goiug then to Nebraska, where I became a horseman, in 1S91 I went to Galveston and to Kansas City in 1895, and learned tho printer's trade. "Prom 1S9G to 3901 I ran a rooming house in Omaha. Then. I went to Kansas Kan-sas City, which is now my home. At the time of MeCanirs murder in .Tunc, 1903, I was in Kansas City. That July I went to Denver and was ill thero six weeks. Tn 190-i I went to Tncoma and then back to Kansas City. In 190-i I was married to my present wife at Excelsior Ex-celsior Springs, Mo. I never knew McCann Mc-Cann and never saw him." |