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Show HIS VIED CAREER Admits Numerous Offenses, but Says Little About Late Wreck. CLAIMS PERSECUTION Blames Officers for Having Hounded Him With- out Cause. Spe. lal to The Tribune. i'KOVo, Aug. X. Hurry CI. Hunts, who admitted wrecking a paasenger train on the Denver & Hlo Urmide railroad near Sprtngvlllo a few iaa ago, and who is now confined in the county Jit 1 1 awuitlng trial, Iiiih written the slory of hia life, which he Is desirous of giving to the public pub-lic through the newspapers. I lis story is entitled, "Why Do I Make Railroads Suffer?" and, in part, Ih aa follows,: To whom it may concern: The general public is today aroused, and the question Is asked, "la Harry G. Hunts Insane or not ?" I will answer, and the following will be left to the public to place the blame on myself or on the railroads, rail-roads, or on Hie laws of the commonwealth com-monwealth of everv state, as widl as tho 1'ir.led States, 1 was born In lu rryville. Pa.. Ma y 2". is SO, and am now :Ui yeai s old. I went lo school until J was 1T and at the age of IS I was accused, condemned con-demned and sentenced lo ten years In the reformatory at Huntington, Pa.,, and on October li"', D'J I received re-ceived tills sentence and was confined until June M. I'.'O'J. nearly four years of my boyhood life wasted, ami for tho act of grown-up no-n, ho broke into and robbed I lie central railroad station. For the struggle and torture tor-ture for a crime I did not do rested darkly on my mind; it was the start of my criminal record, for which a certain class of men take pleasure In bringing before i he public In order or-der lo turn the public against me. Talks About Tribune. A letter was received by The Salt Lake Tribune from one of Ftah s famous fa-mous would-be marshal". Pete Riley, of Greenrivr. I'tah. slating that he h rr s: ' d me as a suspect for murdering mur-dering a woman In Silt Dake City. This is lie No. 1. Scord, that I was arrested for breaking Into a boxcar and was tried In Provo. This Is lie No. There is no record in any court in the Mate of t'tah that can be produced pro-duced to show where T have ever been connected with a crime for which I was ever tried. P.tlev also stated that T served a term in the I'tah state prison. This is lie No. 3. No record can be shown that I ever was sentenced to tTtah state prison, for I have never been tn there. P.iiey ways that I done a term In Idaho suite prison. This is lie No. 4. as I never was in Idaho but two days In my life. Such men a re t he ca use of my criminal record: they wilfully lie and make my soul black ns coal, and the public will believe it. Just because it Is told by an officer of the law. Dear public, who is to blame, law officers or my own self? Broke Semaphore. Here is some mor of the records of my life, as the officers of the law are now trying to find the Inside and outside of my life : broke a semaphore sema-phore In Ferniy, New, and was sentenced sen-tenced to Nevada Ma te prison for one year. On my release, in 1911, I again broke a semaphore at Wln-nemucca. Wln-nemucca. New. was tried in Humbolt county and pleaaed guilty to a misdemeanor mis-demeanor and was sentenced to the county Jail for six months. I broke the "-emaphores because when I asked the railroad company to fnrnlBh me transportation out of the sta te they refused. I boarded a freight train, was asked for money. I had none to give and was kicked off the train and reported to the officers. I was arrested and taken in an automobile by the Elko city officers of-ficers and left out In the desert and told to beat it, and if I ever came back there I would get what I was not looking for. I acain boarded a freight at Shafter. and because I had no money to give the brakeman I was beaten off; had nothing to eat for three days, and finally the station sta-tion agent took pity on me and foil rne. and put in a trood word for me with a conductor, who carried mo to Wenriover, where I was acain ordered or-dered off for asking' for something to ea t. Hungary, helpless, cold and tired, driven nearly to desperation, I felt like roughing1 the first man that looked like money to me. Gets Some Relief. After three and one-half days of suffering I received relief from an old gentleman from Oh'. who was traveling on one of the Western Pacific Pa-cific trains. He gave me J2.00; I pave a brakeman SI .00 to carry me to Pa It Dake City and spent the other dollar for food. You ask me why I do not work? Because I tell the truth; when they ask me where I worked last. T tell them. I also tell them that T have been In a reformatory and penitentiary. peniten-tiary. "Well, I need a man, but I can't use you; no, not such as you.' My heart was broken, my life has a dark cloud hanging over it; my life is a failure; mv chance for an honest life is wrecked. What would you do, tell a lie and be found out and discharged In disgrace. and be watched by the officers, the same as a cat watches rr a rat, always hounded by the officers, who are always al-ways trying To keeo a man down In the dust? I do not want to blame ad officers of the law. because all of them are not glory-hunters: "He that has not sinned, let him cast the first stone." Is there such a person on earth? Answer: No, no, no. Beaten Over Head. Hontz tells of being hit on the head with a bar of Iron, anol losing his mind, he says: In Eakersfield, Cah. seven years ago. I was beat over the head with a bar of iron until I lost my mind, did not realize where I was, what mv name was. where T came from. Why? Beeau.se I did not have the almighty dollar to give to the brake-man. brake-man. Is thai human kindness? The public has been given the false side of my life by such men as Riley, and this Is my only way to frp-e my side. "Give mo work." says Hontz, give me a chance'to make good; give me a job, put me to work with a person per-son or persons, who will overlook my past record, a nd then I will make good. It's a true saying of Shakespeare: Shake-speare: "No matter how low thou may fall, But thou may again arise. And look tho world in the face And cause tho people a great surprise." sur-prise." Hontz poos on to say lhat he is not a member of the I. W. VV. or any black- hand organization, is by himself and ! a'onc. without a friend, except "Almighty j God. who. some day. will Judge aright, j Hontz says he has never signed any confession, nor lias he taken an oath In relation to the wreck near Springville. Nobodv saw him, and he asks the question, ques-tion, "Have I committed the wreck which I said I did. or have I not? Where is there a law that can send me to prison?" He Winds up, "Thanking the public sincerely, I remain, Harry G. Hontz." |