Show I N FIEND LIKE IKE THIS LAUGHED AS HE TOLD OF HIS DREADFUL GUILT QUILT t C The rhe i Victim Was W Three Y ear ar ld d 4 W fc 60 t 1 f Tied Tied a Stone to Her lIer Neck block and Car t JI rt Into the tho Swirling f a Tells ell with Cheer tory iKA Cheer y I 0 V IM AA LA a r SHORT time ago go the body of a 3 3 year-old year girl that wa weighed dOwA dow i 1 WIth at l was I stone oner w was s If A found IlnA sour river at Kan Kaa- r tas ens fifty t F some e i 1 t the 13 io is q y s oi ot the tha child was was a e mystery but finally finally final final- ly It was was sh shown wn t to o have belonged to William Willlam Carr a a good good- fOr n nothing for thing wh who was at t once arrest arrested and charged with murder m Just how w much of a fiend this maim mab Carr is ca can n readily be imagined after reading his confession which was made soon rom alter after arrest A correspondent corr tells about i Jt t In the following words Carrs Cans Fon conf f is Just lust the evidence the offic officers office rs n needed e ed to convict nv ct the Pt he guity man an The They y knew It would would come come that it had t to o come coma sooner or later The murder its it's it itself it- it s 's self Inhuman cold blooded an and ana d atrocious a murder not of an en enemy my but of ot a little trusting child a mur- mur murler ler not of a a. stranger tranger but of ot a daughter daugh daugh- ter the ter-the the murder itself was the truest trues t witness s against William Carr The murder cried out to be e known f It t would not Dot be silenced it gnawed a at atthe atthe t tt the heart of the brute It played no noon not noton noton t on his sympathies and his remorse for for he lie had none but upon his fears until at last he announced that he had d given f in that the guilt was more than tha n he could bear and that he woud would shift t the burden from him He would han hang g Jr WILLIAM WILLIA r CARR The most atrocious fiend on earth anyway he was sure of that The drowned daughter had come out of ot the muddy water of the Missouri river an and d become the final witness in her fathers father's tather's fathers father's fath fath- ers er's guilt Little Belle had bad won I might as well own up he said trem trem- I might as well own up for tor you'll hang me anyway Youre You're Just und hang me you and the p pee peo o- o pIe Then Carr said that he would tell the whole truth without reservation reservation reserva reserva- tion if it only he might be allowed to to see his wife before he was hanged This promise was given him Carr Darr was wasso wasso so weak that he be had to be assisted to I the leather covered couch in the office i of the chief of ot police where he lay down his face in his hands trembling and shaking with weakness and fear I Ibis face was purple between his fingers fingers fingers fin fin- gers the the Adams Adam's apple on hIs throat throbbed and something In his throat made a sound like a death rattle The officers men accustomed to crime and criminals say they never saw a man manin manin manin in so terrible a state He then told all the details of his crime readily and with little hesitation as If anxious to get through with it all He told It calmly with the utmost Indifference to any remorse or other emotions He was beyond all emotion except the emotion of fear There was no feelIng feelIng feeling feel- feel Ing for the child in his recital There was no pity for tor anyone except himself and the wife who must suffer He was anxious to shield his wife wite and several several several sev sev- eral times stopped to assure aSure the ofU officers cers that she did not know of ot his crime The officers disbelieve this My wife wite told me he began slowly and deliberately that I had to get rid of ot Belle BeBe She was all time with the other child and we couldn't getem get getem getem em to live peaceable together She was of a mean nature Belle Delle was So my wife told me to get rid of ot her to take her to town and give her away Did she tell you to drown her asked asked ask ask- ed eel Prosecutor Martin No she didn't answered Carr quickly his whole body trembling Let me go on I left Liberty Liberty Liberty Lib Lib- erty at about 1 o'clock I walked all th the way fifteen miles with Belle I sometimes In my arms sometimes walking by my side wl with h her hand in mine Her little hand In her fathers father's hand some some som one muttered On the road I found a piece of rope and I picked it up and put it t jn n my Inside vest pocket you Had Had you made up your our mind what to do with the baby When did you make up your mind WellI Well I sort of made it upon up on en the road After I crossed the Hannibal tracks I cameto came cameto to the river Then I walked along the bank back In the direction ol of Liberty Pretty soon I came to a dry creek creeh bed that opened Into Che to river I want wanted d to drown her there thele but the water was shallow and sluggish There were sandbanks sandbanks sand sandbanks banks and the place was no good Carr barr had bad become perfectly calm te ra told his Ws story now without effort with witti witha a sort of cheerfulness even He seemed seemed seem seem- ad ed to grow stronger Dg r as the burden passed He even smiled at times atthe at atthe atthe the still faces of ot the men listening to him Then I walked up the river he continued looking around for forthe the right place place- placeIt It wasn't l long ng till I came cameto cameto to where the water was deep and the current ran swift t. t I laid Belle Delle down and got out the rope and and tied Belles Belle's Bellest arms armS' around her There were t i l S Was she awake Yes said EnId Carr There were stones around there thero lots of them and I I- I Did she seem to realize what you were about to do with her No she she- dIdn't I picked up a stone that weigh welsh ed jf four o or po pounds ds 1 I tl It It t goo gad 1 and Ind fast tas d I her I was was r dY If f lifted fitted j r She Shew wa not not asleep sl ep You Youre dire o ot that hat a d t s sh W L ter up a and I threw her In far out with all cat my might Like drowning a eh said an officer She made a big splash said Carr meditatively She made a a big splash and I watched and watched but she never came up up- The X l was dark It was otter sunT alter sun down Noc slid i v word The Theto The story t i to j wa waa out opt Carr lay lar upon the lounge his head dead head still on his hand while the officers i om cers cera pushed their chairs chaffs in is a close cir clr- ef cle cle around roi nd him It was dusk In the chiefs f s office and the ele electric lamps madelong made long shadows on the carpet carpet Ou Out Out- side the cable c be gongs gongs were were sounding g gand and th the people In hi the street below e el elbowed elbowed el- el bowed their way along the the walks milks un un- unmindful uti- uti V mindful of ot the little gro group p In Ia the the- theoffice office and the tragedy being disclosed there Carr moved comfortably on the soft leather cushioned lounge The con con confession tension t ion had put new life Into him had relieved him immensely Suddenly he burst Into a a laugh more dreadful more mare more atrocious than anything he ha has had s said y yet t. t It It w was was s a sound that made the Hie men start back In in their chairs and look In one another's nother faces it came caine camet in the midst of ot th the silence e that follow follow- followed followed ed the re recital it J. J It sounded as if the soul seul of or the man had gone out leaving th the brute with power of speech and tho the brute had laughed Officers SIV that no ne man like Carr has come within e veil leri an that they have heard no sound so eo curdling blood-curdling as Carrs Carr's laugh when when- he helay lay Jay back on his couch after he h had d i ended ded his story He laughed again and again little chuckling sounds of r relief such as some animal might make when It Is being satisfied His nose and heavy reddish mustache went up up to meet his eyebrows his eyebrows went down to meet his Ws note nose his whole whole- face twitched spasmodically and righted it itself itself it- it self In a second His story over he was all an animation and eagerness He wanted to go to the spot where he had drowned the baby he wanted to verify his recital He would go over over lh the whole road with the officers he would point out ont every place He w would uld st start rt right away though It was dark and he had not yet had his Ws supper He was told that he might sometime have havea a chance This fiend now DOW sits cowering cowering cower cower- cowering ing in his cell shaking with fear that he will wil be lynched There Is no telling tell ten ing fag what would happen It If he were confined eon eon- fined In a a Jail not so well guarded asIs as asis is Kansas |