Show SAYS SA YS SURRENDER OFFER IGNORED Slayer of Three Regrets Act As He lie Lies Deaths Death's at Door DoorK KNOXVILLE K U I Tenn ic Jan 14 illy IDy Dy The Associated W Press Press B Johnson Jefferson Jerrerson county farmer r and nd one one time Urn peace officer slayer of ar three persons at tt and Wednesday afternoon r nn night an and himself probably fatally wounded from his bed at t a 0 hoe hos- hos hospital pital hero here her uld eald 8 ld that his otter offer to f surrender to storming pos cm emen n who ho had surrounded his home bom bet night was as Ignored I sent cent tor for the sheriff by a aman man named Donalds Donalde my message being that th t I wouldn't harm a II hair hairo ot of his Ills head K It he ho would come and andl take k me They threw dynamite and gas S bombs Into my home horn In- In Instead In Instead stead tead Now they have o wrecked the only home my family has For Fot myself I dont don't care RS ae I hail never neer get g-et up LETTERS TO Johnson has a bullet hole through the tho head just under the c eye fO Inflicted indicted by a II Knox count county deputy member ot of a 0 band that stormed his home near Jefferson City Ity early this morning after Arter It had been partially wrecked by dynamite He Ifs was U brought hers herO hersa hera a 0 short time tim later and ond under guard guardIs Is being treated but with Uh little hope held out tha that he will to- to re recover cover corer The slayer stated slated that letters he had bad left leCt behind would explain everything I had three separate warrants sworn sorn out for Cor Mrs How JIow- howand Howard ard and and her daughter Mrs Mra Jessie BishoP before I shot them Later ho Ie admitted regret at shooting the It t women I wouldn't havo hav dono done for Cor anything but the tho old woman said she the had a gun run and made as though to reach Inside her dress for It It I thought she the was goIng to shoot so I shot tint t COLLEGIAN X lULLED KILLED KILLED Few Fe additional details filtered Into tIle Knoxville from Crom those host pre l previously previously o given elven a no a contributing cause cauM or the tragedy that stalked the streets or of o the small college collee town to n nand and claimed the tho th lives of oC not only the aged ased ag d crippled woman Irs Mra Howard and her daughter but also It hat ot of Dibrell Hicks senior at Newman Carson Newman college and a lead lead- leader leader er In athletic circles Hicks rei tell fell 1 lust just after arter 7 1 o'clock IlS as members of Johnsons Johnson's family were leasing lea ing the th beleaguered beleaguer ed home o with the hunted man at an upper window and from which a hall hail of lead d descended as his wife wit and children started a away way I ALLEGED The tragedy Is le said Mid to have haye been the consequence of ot recurrent trouble between the th two two omen and Johnson of o cr or alleged Inti- Inti Intimacies Inti Intimacies macies between him and Mrs Bishop the th mother of ot a year nine year old old son eon whose husband died In Inthe inthe the world war Johnson met the woman on tho streets ot of o Jefferson City and sud- sud suddenly suddenly sud suddenly denly terminated II a a conversation by y tIring firing point blank at them with a pistol Robert Hobert Purkey a companion of Johnson was being held as a maw ma material witness In the th case |