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Show Park, where ho got out to take the car. Ho took the hatchot with him and said nothing, nor did I thing anything at the time about tho change. Once at tho depot at Adair, he came out of the house in his shirt sleeves and exercised me by compelling me to walk the' ' rails. All the time I felt as small an a bantam chicken. When ho arranged with me about the wedding he said ' - he would go ..to. Port .Huron and meet me on tho road between that place and the church. I thought ho really meant to get' married when ho "engaged "en-gaged my services, but when" we met on the road and he was alone, I began be-gan to feel uneasy, but he said it was all right, that the others would come In a carriage. When we went into the church . I wanted to light a lamp, to which he dissented, saying, 'No Elder, no light, unless they should come,' but presently no said, maybe you had better have a little Are 05 I went out and- passed wood ror mm through tho window.' When I had put in what I thought would be enough he said, 'Elder, the moon is shining shin-ing right in the front door and If you go around there to come In, someone may see you. Just put up some wood here and come in at the window. 1 brought a few sticks, laid them across each other from. the top of which he helped me Into" the building. He lt the window nearly down again and we kept looking through the . opening to 6ee the others come down th Plate road. Presently he took a big, hearty laugh and naldt 'There ain't no URe looking, for there . ara't going to be no wedding,' He was sitting wheio the gleams of light shone on-hla face and his eyos. were, so brilliant thai 1 was thrilled through and through with the queerest sort of feeling. I rsk'ed him why then he had made the rrcsent arrangements, when he said; 'Well, Elder, I Just wanted to have a little fun. You consider yoursolt an educated man and look down on a poor ignorant fellow like me. And i JjBt thought I would show you what I could do. I know If I could handle you, I could handle other men too, end make a big thing out of it.' Then i.ii said. 'Now if I say raise up your hf.nd, up she goes, see; that's no tljeam,' and I felt my hand raise without with-out any effort .whatever on my part. Then he said, if I say let your hand flown, down it goes, and I felt it going go-ing down in a singular manner. I3y this time I was so alarmed that I was in a cold sweat I then leaned over to. see If anyone might be on the roadi when-he began to laugh and I saw that he was holding a weapon of some sort up his sleeve. Instantly 1 made a grab for it and got the hatchet fiom him and asked what he meant to do with that. He said, Til show you,; and froni his overcoat pocktts drew a knlfo in each hand. He came at me, striking with both hands,, while I backed acro36 the church, down the tide aisle and across to, the front door, but I didn't dare to turn about lo open the door. Then I threw the hatchet and struck him and he full. Tlc-n IT turned to open the door when he grabbed me by tho leg and th.re.sv me down where my hands came down upon the hatchet. There was a desperate des-perate sf niggle In which I used the hatchet until he laid quiet and still. I cannot tell all that happened nner that; I was wild to dispose of the body. ;I was in horrible i error,- so s k began pulling off his garments that I might drag the body somewhere and Dide 1L Then when my eyes fell upon up-on one, of the knives I flew into a rage and began to cut him when, he woke up and grabbed me again. Then for awhile I used the hatchet until I.v, as suro he was dead. Then I saw tbat the fire was hot enough to make the stove pipe red nearly to the elbow, el-bow, so I grabbed him by the feet and dragged him down there and cut him to pieces, putting In each part as It was dismembered. Then I began to put the garments into the front of the fetove, when I remembered that the scove had (k poor draft and the things might not burn. Then I saw that mv clothing was torn and bloody, while eome of his were yet whole, and I ex changed, and then took all but a few of mine and piled them In along wkh the body. I then went up nearly to Tunnel Station, where I turned my rig about and started It on the b.t-k track. My big coat hid my tom and bloody garments until I got to Chicago, Chi-cago, whero I purchased others. "I am tired of trying to hide, though I have succeeded In eluding the detectives de-tectives so far. If you get this while I nm yet alive, come and get me. 1 i:hali not be far from Cauhage, Illinois. Illi-nois. (Signed) "J. M. CARMICHAEL." CI1ICHAEL LEFT Tl LETTERS To the Sheriff Explaining in Detail the Killing of Browning. Carthage, 111., Jan. 12. Rev. John Carmlchaol, who murdered Browning, Brown-ing, arrived here Friday evening even-ing and engaged board at the house of MIbs Miranda Hughes. ..He had no baggage with him and gavo his name as John Elder, said ho was a' cabinet maker and thought of locating in Cartilage. Saturday morning he telegraphed to Burlington for his valise and it was Bent. Ho appeared morose, had little to say and would eat but little. On Sunday he slept most of tho time and refused to eat. saying his fast' was not over and leading Miss Hughes to think that ho was a Catholic. He took a short walk during the day. This morning Miss Hughes prepared a special breakfast for him, In an effort ef-fort to get him to eat, but he continued con-tinued to fast. He acted strangely but the landlady thought little of it. After breakfast he packed all his belongings in his valise and left his room in perfect order, paying his bill, and asked1 Miss Hughes when tho train would leave for Bowen, twelve miles south of Carthage. At 7:40 he went out into the yard and nothing more was seen or heard of him until after 9 o'clock when Miss Hughes, fearing some accident, called the mall carrier. Andrew Lowery, who was passing. He discovered that tho minister had tried to kill himself. They carried Carmlchael into the house. " The doctors found that Carmlchaol had made a small wound In his breast, but the knife had not touched the Juglar vein. If he had not remained so long in the cold and lost so much blcod, the doctors say they could have restored him to consciousness, but as the thermometer stood almost at zero he had become so thoroughly chilled that he died at 12: 0. Coroner J. A. Barr ordered an inquest. in-quest. Sheriff Bert sen i was given Carmichael's suit case containing two letters, one addressed to Mrs. Carmlchael Car-mlchael and the other to the sheriff. The latter to the sheriff follows:. "Carthage, 111., Jan. 9 To Mr. Wag-gonstelj, Wag-gonstelj, Port Huron, Mich. "Honored Sir: I write this letter to explain somo things In connection with the Columbus- church tragedy. I am guilty only because I am a coward. The man had such a hypnotic influence over me that I felt that something must be done. I felt greatly ashamed that a man said .to be short-minded should be able" to compel' me "to yield to his will, but I said nothing about it. At first he said: "It's all right, Elder, don't bo afraid." Then he began be-gan to talk about how we two could get rich. Three times he came to the rear of my barn and talked to me through the manure hole; twice ho was at the river when I went to water my stock and each time I felt that he. was doing something that he was proud of. Once when I was going out to Columbus, he was on the pike near the Pink schoolhouse. When I overtook over-took him, he asked me to ride, which I could not refuse. He a&kfd me if ever I had driven up the Pike to Port Huron, to whioh I answered no. Then he said 'Come, let's drive up,' to whlrh I dissented', but he kept on until ho persuaded me to go. He got out and stood at the oomer while I went to the barn with tho rig. Then after we had been at the restaurant for food for which he paid and also for the horse, he gave me a half dollar and said he wanted me to go across there and buy a small hatchet for his boy to play with. I began to tell him to go and do his own buying when he set his eyes upon me in the queerest sort of a look, something like the look of a snake's eyes. Then I felt his influence tightening his grip on my mind, so I went, intending to go Into the store and out the back way to get the horse and rush off for home. When I turned to close the door he stood looking upon me through tho window and I Just bought the hatchet and came out again, but by that time he had disappeared, fo I went to the barn, got my rig and started for home. Then, as I made the turn onto Military Mil-itary street, he was at the corner to go in. He rode as far as to , South |