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fjY 3, 1925GETDLIunaryny3. — ?rt:ons vailed i. Gen. to ex-uition-itioualTheGen. »ter of; wero s f;um-•iimllar r been rection se teat tho *, Gen. lepart-utional 3d . “a try in-lefense oever.r.□st im-of the al staff of the agtou,to .ad-ur tia-s, they expand t plans drawn with ss they expan-e armyg prob-atlsfaoiot yet o beenpermit Jtbreak re have ien the as been wanted ents In“If I Kill Man I’m Going to Shoot,I Want Vengeance,” Trebon Says in Letter Written Before the ShootingThe following loiter was received from Loralne Trebon by tlie Armstrong Manufacturing company in today’s mall. On tho back of the envelope wasthis sentence:If I fall to meet (he sup’t Til get the next heat crook.' ' This Is the letter which was addressed to the sujit:Waterloo, la,, June 1025To the Supt: I'm going to shoot you Old Hoy. I’m going to give von a iustu of the! lead for living me iwo weeks ago. 1 would not bear a man out of a cent, hut \ kill for vfengearure. You didn't warn to nee me live and I don’t, want io see you live either, to SCO game.This letter and the lead is fromI Signed 1“HO KM Mg Tr TKKHON.Now* the Law will wantme dead, but 111 dieif I got fired/ Then he said, T don’t have to toll you/J'lajis (’lean Job.True enough ha didn't, supt. thou spake up suddenly said, if you want to know I'll you: Von don't know how toTheandtellcutFollowing is a letter written to Chief of Police F. A. Leighton and addressed to The Evening \[1‘Lorain** Trebon, who-1er of aexer-on the tndivid-ny and on. To-r of thenze •baraONE)Courier by shot Edgar E. Watson, superintendent for the Armstrong Manufacturing company, late yesterday afternoon, in which Trebon gives full details of a plan to shoot Watson and hJs reasons for the premeditated action. The letter bears h Waterloo postmark of 0 p. m. July 2, which Indicates it was dropped in a mail box some time yesterday:Waterloo. Iowa, June. 19 25.To the Chief of Police: 1have a time story to tell you, which ought to interest you.I have been out of work for a long lime, until 1 hired out at Armstrong Mfg. Co. three weeks ago. I started to work there May 2 8 and worked up until the following Saturday night. Then the bos came over to me and handed me my check. In a nice hypocrltfc way, with a smile, he said, ‘Well, I guess I gotta let you go/ J asked the reason why. Ho told me there is an old hand coming back and work is somewhat slack. (Which is a lie.) Because I made a trip over there and found out it was a new man in my place and another extra man hired, so work was not so slack as he said. You see what a damn lie cost, don't you?The boss was afraid to tell me he fired me or because he was ashamed to, I don't know which, but I want to tell you, chief. I realized work is scarce now and I tell you 1 worked as fast and as good as I could.What really made me so damn mad- was this. I knew I had a lot of belts to rivet on the clutches, so I hurried into a sweat in order to finish all of them before 5 o'clock, for it was 'Saturday, but- when f came the boss fired me. Right then and there r felt like giving somo one a dose salts, but you know I am the(he mustard. Then I gave him a - - - look and walked out. I could have shot him right then hut you jtoo I klndu like to get things a little bit straightened out arouud first and make a good clean job of it.Every foreman who (ires a man far a half way good cause balances up to a f0-5u with me, and J never hurl a man w ho has a cause to fire.: So il some of my old foremen here ; in the city hate me. it is a damn j flood thing they waited until they •had a cause before they sent mej ho mi*.: 1 don't know the names of thesejihree fellows over there at Arm-.strong's, but it is them who made ! things so almighty hard for me; I |jnsi couldn't do much work. Then that hog-jawed supt. fired me because 1 didn’t out the mustard, as tie called It.Well, probably by now he thinks just a little different about Any how he would if he. onlySTARTLIDean Onativi cago Bra ThrownOfheavily □ k andS.postof-nnkind of fellow who thinks before lie leaps. I wanted to find out the cause .and the man before 1 struck and I did.*• AImpatient to Strike.T nrfk fl.ii-mew what was his.) . I would have left everything go at that if the iilipi. had talked half way decent, but he didn't. Now I’m ready to go to hell I suppose, but I’ll go with my teeth shut, and 1 tuav not be the only one to (hop. for I'll ruin every man who tracks me if I can do it.Can't He Buffaloed.If { kill one man, you'll hung me, so 1 might as well lead who tries to lead me—aod I'll do it.'*I have lived a good life and will continue to lead a good life, but IT! not lei any pickled-brained apes buffalo me any more now, when I see 1 was denied the right to make a living oil account of my belief. I will stand up for the truth umil I fall dead. They can take the corn away from a dumb animal, but they're going to find it an interesting problem to take it away from an honest man.I would n't beat a man out of a red cent, but I'll kill for vengence: The words of A. Lincoln are: ‘The severest Justice isn't always the best policy/ True enough. I give si little and I take a little/ but I’ll not let no man buffalo me.In the first place if I thought very much of this life I would never take si shot at that (unluckyduck). I respect the aristocrat. 1 respect the poor man and society, hut I never under the sun will respect the hypocrite. I am a criminal and I own up to it ,but the fellow I'm going to shoot is still a bigger criminal than t. The only difference is this: In a struggle tor existence I would kill a law-abiding thief—outright—not like the way he would see me die. for some orthe capitalists (not all of them) would starve and kill* by inches, working the fingers off for bread and butter. That is what I condemn. So now you’ll know I'm an honest criminal, so isn’t this all right?Warning to Police.Why, chief, I feel as tho I'm doing good by teaching some of youfellows fear alone will not stop crime. If you want less crime slop the causes of it, for no other way is the proper way.(lnllt;*r tluLlChicago, Jul crash rocked 1 her a unlay.Loan Unativ oldest broken* go’s financial * the hands of jJudge Carpent: Creditor bar The Chicago T named receive!Just what t Mvorshlp will uire in say. 1 New York alt-reivcrship case creditors, asser is involved.Chester It. I Title Trust charge of tho cupymg an on office building.Small Bill Davis barrei immediate aid and details cor difficulties ofmeager.The petition filed iri conjun for adjudicate cllsing bills toi tho firm intoceivorsbip peii abilities of th$29,000,000.Its said li: 000, the peti most wholly si itios which art of its custoim in various ban Blow V The petitloi firm committeicy in July byTroitman; $22 it is alleged, t creuco over o So suddenlythat the boo board of trad of the actionafter, it was i tors held a me upon bankmp meeting of the at 6 a. m. anlt; customary fin the firm.■Suspende(ByNow York,Onativia connbrokers, with cities. inchidh Boston, was New York from the cottc lowing simila go stock exch A petition liabilities at assets at abou In federal co following the The failure in Stcwart-Wi
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Fri, Jul 03, 1925
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