Show EX-CONVICT EX IS WilliNG TO DIE Confessed Slayer of 13 Persons Relates Career SEATTLE Wash Aug 9 Ey 9 ByTho The Tho Associated ted Press Thomas Thomas Johnson Johnon OK cx convict and contused slayer of o more moro than a dozen do en per por per lions Sons lions was wa frankly perturbed hero Sunday night by a report that authorities of o Sioux City JR IL I will riot not hang hint him for cor killing Walter A A Dall rd in that city September 26 1918 Minneapolis officials l have havo vo cx x pressed Lt a desire to send Bend him to prison for tor Or life Ufa as aB the flayer Elsor of Leonard a a young rAilroad attorney there there December H 18 flut Dut Johnson does not want to go so to prison lies lie's lic he been there once at- at already al already ready He lie wants ant to elic gRe gh 0 his liCe liCen IIron n atonement for tor or his hi admittedly criminal career career lie Ilo has apparently been connect connect- connected connected ed ad with the tho Sioux City killing but there saM said It would be dlf- dlf dif difficult to let convict him him Convict me he exclaimed In Ina Ina Ina a cell of the city Jail where b he helias has lIas been since July 31 I 1 am con con- con pleading guilty Dont Don't they understand nd All I 1 want them to do Is to hang me Johnson known elsewhere and at other times a ns I Smith Kelly Dell Delland Delland Belland and Hardy walked Into hero July 31 and anil tOld tolda tolda II a detective that ho had c cOmmitted rob rob- rob robberies fourteen murders and more berle than he could remember STORY STOnY SI SEEMS TRUE Although skeptical and Inclined to regard him as Insane ne authorities began checking up on Ills his story and lla e discovered it In the main to tobe tobe be e true lie Ito lived as a boy bl lit Salmon aimon Arm B fi C That his hla father tAther was a Canadian jurist has virtually been established He was first sent lent toa toa to a penitentiary for break breaking In II Into a bake shop bop and stealing a pie pIc A life lite confession which ho sIgned reads like ono one of ot II a a mode modero Tesse Jesa James Ho 10 had plundered and robbed without mentionable Intermission for tor or SO 30 years He I-fe has shot and killed often orlen without provocation and at will Dut throughout hi his career It Is la a boast boast that he ha never nevel harmed II a oman In fact tact he declared that a wom worn woman woman an In Aberdeen S B D V a Mrs lire Influenced him to end hi his criminal operations operation Johnson Ye- Ye related I YeI rei i I re that he ho held her ber up last spring She talked to me like no other woman ever did he said eald I m am sure auro It was U that lecture that prompted me to give myself up I have alwa always remembered what she he said Rid The first killing be he remembers ers was waa In tn Hazelton 1 B C and the next Hi t San Francisco about the time or of orthe the earthquake In that city Since then his hili operations have extended i as tar far east cast as os the Mississippi river 1 hOLDUPS last Lan winter Johnson said he hG op- op Crated operated crated extensively In holding up more than 90 O persona person The killing of Erdall there he ho de declared dared was Walt his thirteenth and he was as superstitious about It ht Then ho he proceeded to shoot an engineer who fled Cled when Johnson held him up Believing the victim dead he h heft leCt confident that he Ie had killed H 4 persons an and that a jinx had been een broken I I But Dut Detective Thomae Patrick Gleason of at Minneapolis who came here to investigate Johnson Johnsons story told him last lost night that the en- en engineer en engineer feigned death Thus John Johnson son will likely go to 10 trial for fOI or hi his thirteenth killing Johnsons Johnson's reluctant nt return to tl 1 u I set tor for the first tint part of this week He S wu was convicted at Kansas City In i of at robbery-and robbery sent ent to o the Missouri state prison After Atter be ing being ng transferred to an asylum for persons criminally I Insane II e be e eS Sure Im I'm Im I'm crazy My he declared Crazy to have done the things thInG'S i I have done Nobody but a nut Would killed hilled M kill aU all a the people Ive I've t oo 00 |