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NOT WANT TRUSTY 1MIKE DIN NEELY TOLD WASHING. TON STATE PENITENTIARY THE TRUTH.fill FORMER SPOKANE MINMiaU Hint t* tint*** *tt%* That Way~Xoak For* Is Kaew*1» Spekaae.In spite of tbs atrocities committed by Slllte Donnelly, negro, captured star Prieat River Sunday night because of hit pert loathe robbery of s poolroom at Hope and the hilling of the proprietor, Wr A. -Crisp* there, Detective Chester Edwwrd# of Spoken* say* he it not without a strange code of honor.“Several year* ago/ the police de* tec lire said laat night* f visited the penitentiary at Walk W*Ha where Donnelly was tent up for life in 191J. I I was in the office of Warden Henry j Drum when be tent for Donnelly who j had niade two thrtJltog escapes from j the penitentiary and fc* wearing a red shirt to signify he *was a bad prisoner, The warden sunjimoned him to his office.Hedged Teiaptetleft Oaoe •’Mike/' he said, TYe decided to make a, trusty out of you. I’m going to put yon on the outside gate. You'll hftve every chance in the world to get away there if you wish to betray my confidence.0Donnelly hesitated not a second before speaking, “Warden don't tempt mo/ he answered. going to escape from this prison the first chance I get but I don't want to go that wjey/* Take him away the warden or- ' dered the guard, and Donnelly went back to his work in the Jute mill and a narrow cell with cHanpea of escape lt;slim when he might have had a soft1, trusty’f Job and the way to freedom} open, all because he wouldn't break 'j bU word. Crook* are.. Strange crcjit-ares, Donnelly would kill a man in cold blood but he wouldn't break his 1 word to the warden. . , iFeed Farmer 8p#kane Kan i Noah Ford, the accomplice of Don- 1 nelly in the Hope trsgedy, who has j also been captured* Is a former Spo- . kane negro. His worksd In Buckley's i barber shop near* the Chamber of Com-1 mere* building about two years ago. i He was.known as a bad negro here , {and ^egroes told me today that while . 5t© W4* here, he had the whole lt;»egro colony terrorised,“He also Is an ex-convlct and is on 1 parole from Walk Walla for a mur- 1 der committed in Seattlo. Another * negro found him In his home with h(s 1 wife and drew a raxor and Ford kill- I ed him. He was convicted of man- c slaughter. .
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Sandpoint Pend Oreille Review
Sandpoint, Idaho, US
Thu, Aug 02, 1923
Page 5
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