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the door shut, and I told her. I said, "Mrs. Sheedy, I have got to give this up; I can't do it." I said, "the man no longer than Friday offered to fit me up a nice barber shop, and I can't do it; I have come to tell you; if you want to shoot me, just do it." She said "I have a God d---d good notion to shoot you, and tell the people you're trying to rob me," and I said "If you want to shoot me, shoot me, but don't tell people around here that I was trying to rob you." She said, "I have got a good gun and it shoots twice, and shoots a big ball and I've got a God d---d good notion to shoot you," and I thought she was going to shoot me.

Where was you; in the house?

I stepped out of the door then. My feet were on the porch.

Was the door open?

Yes, because I thought she was going to kill me. She told me to leave that cane. Well, I don't know just where I set the cane down, but I she was was going to kill me. She told me to leave that cane. Well, I don't know just where I set the cane down, but I set it up against the wall somewhere and she said, "Now, hold up your hand. If you hold up your hand and swear that you will never tell nothing that I have told you or no secrets, no matter what happens, I will let you go; but if you ever do, I will have you killed--before you get on the witness stand. Your blood money will never do you any good." and it done me so much good that I just dropped on my knees and held up both hands and I said I will never tell anything. That is the reason I was afraid to tell last night. And she said to me, "Now you take a walk; don't you never speak to me any more; you go out the back gate," and I went out the back gate and went to Fourteenth street to the barber shop to get my overcoat, but the man was not there and I turned right around and came right on down Fourteenth street to P street and then came right down P street home to supper; and I didn't find my wife there.

What time did you eat supper?

I was to eat supper at 6 o'clock, but I didn't eat because my wife was not there, and I waited a while for her, and it was about 6 o'clock when I got home or after 6, and I waited around there for her and she didn't come, and I said, "I am not going to eat supper now; it is about 7 o'clock and I will go up to George's and get my wife," because I knew she was up there and when I started away it was about five minutes to seven as near as I can remember; I started out and went over to this drug store out there and got myself a half pint of whisky and during my walk from there to where George lives I drank this; it was a half pint of whisky I mean; I drank this half pint of whisky I mean. I drank this half pint of whisky and just about the time I was opening the door there to go into the house--just in the act of going in--I heard the report of his revolver.

Into Bott's house?

Yes sir, I was going into Bott's house, and I just stopped a second and I heard the next one, and then I turned and went into George's and I hadn't any more than started in than I met this man, this man I had been hunting that had my overcoat, and he said, "Hello, I've been looking for you." He said, "I want my overcoat." I said, "That is what I wanted. Is my wife here yet? And he said, "Yes, Where is that shooting?" I said, "I don't know." He said, "I just started out to see."

You suspected, of course, but I didn't know, because I was not expecting to hear any shooting; we changed overcoats and just stepped back inside the door and I stepped in and he spoke up and said to my wife, "Monday is here and wants you to go home," and she got up and I went down O street home.

What time wast this?

Right after this it was not more than five minutes time I was there.

It was after the shooting when you when you started home?

Yes, I started from there home.

Who is the other man you speak of?

He runs a barber shop out on Fourteenth street.

Where did you go that night?

I stayed home until about half-past nine.

You reached home about what time?

It generally takes me about half an hour to go from there home.

Where did you go when you left home?

I came back to town--right straight up O street--right straight up O street on the south side to Mr. ----------, do you know where this drug store is opposite the post office? I went up that stairway and I took off my overcoat and laid down there and went to sleep.

When did you leave there to go home?

About half past 12, I guess, and I went over to Lindsay's and got a drink and had a little lunch, and this man that tends the tables in there when I saterted out he told me about this accident about somebody trying to kill Sheedy. Mrs. Sheedy said to me that if she had him on the bed she would finish him; that she would get somebody to do enough to keep him in bed and she would finish him; that is all she wanted. That she had some stuff there that Dr. Fuller had left there, and he told her when he left it. "If you give him a little overdose it will kill him," and she said she could give him a little overdose or chloroform him.

Who did Dr. Fuller refer to giving it to?

To Sheedy, I guess, and she said that if she couldn't do it with that she could do it with chloroform. She said she did chloroform him. She said she did chloroform him once in order to rob him; this was about the time they were having this fight with the gamblers. She said he drew out $5,000 order to buy up the council, and she said she chloroformed him to rob him, but all she got was a one dollar bill and a two dollar bill, and that was all she got.

You started to tell about changing overcoats with this fellow--did he kill him?

No, sir.

Then you killed him?

No, sir.

Who did?

I don't know, I changed overcoats with Mr. Stepney.

How did you come into possession of his overcoat.

We were out having a time, like we always have been since we've been here, and sometimes I wore his overcoat and sometime he wore mine, and this time we happened to change and I went home with his and he went home with mine.

Did you ever have any talk with Mrs. Sheedy about this matter after the shooting six weeks ago.

She said she supposed it was done for robbery, and she asked me if I heard of it and I said yes, and she asked me what I thought about it.

Did you have a gun at that time?

No, sir, not then I didn't.

You had no gun then?

No, sir.

When did you have a gun for the last time in your possession?

Monday.

Which Monday?

Last Monday.

When did you get that gun?

Oh, I got that gun a little before Christmas.

Where did you get it?

I bought it with a fellow.

When was the shooting?

I couldn't tell you what day it was.

If you and Mrs. Sheedy had had this talk before he was shot at, and then this followed and he was shot at, you naturally would suppose she was carrying this out by some means, wouldn't you?

Of course I had my ideas about it, but I didn't dare say.

You and she would talk this matter over and would speak of it, but you wouldn't speak of it as robbery, when you and she had planned it all over, would you? Now, what was your talk?

The talk we had? I will tell you. It was just like this. She kind of laughed and asked me what I thought about it, and I told her I thought it was done for robbery, and she said, "Of course, he thinks so," and then she laughed.

Then she didn't think it was robbery?

I don't know.

Didn't you make the remark that he didn't do a good job; wouldn't you naturally say the fellow was not much good?

I thought he was a very poor marksman that was that close to him and didn't hit him, and I said that to her.

What did she say in reply to that?

She didn't say anything, only laughed.

When she employed you to do this murder did she ask you whether you were used to a pistol; whether you were a good marksman?

No, sir, I didn't have no pistol.

Didn't she get that pistol for you--didn't she give you money to go and get it?

No, sir.

I thought you said she got one out of a pawnshop.

Didn't she give you a revolver at one time?

No, sir, she showed me one.

Did she ever make you a present of anything?

Yes, sir, of a gold ring and some money.

How much money did she give you toward the last.

Oh, from first to last she gave me $5 at one time, and $1 at another time, and $1 at another time.

Is that all.

Yes, sir, that is all, but she said she would square with me if I didn't say anything about what I had been doing for her.

When did she give you the ring.

About Christmas.

Would you know it if you saw it.

I think I would; yes, that's it.

Under what circumstances did she give you the ring.

She got this ring and put it on this finger--like that. She said, "I have got money young fellow, but I'm not going to give it to you, because you're not going to euchre me any more. I will place this on here to apply on account and to prove that I am in earnest. I will not give you any more money, because if I do you will blow it in and get drunk, and go to fooling around."

What was the arrangement about the $5,000.

She said she could get it any time she wanted it.

She said, "If you will come to me next day, or come to the door," she said, "I will give you as much as $500 or $600, and in a day or two I will pay you the remaining part, and more--I will make you a present of that much. I will give you that much the next day, and I will pay you the $5,000 in a few days. I can get it."

Have you ever been near her house since Mr. Sheedy's death.

Yes. I was there Monday morning or Tuesday morning, and my wife and I went there Wednesday.

When did you dress her hair last.

Saturday. I didn't shampoo it, I just dressed it and combed it.

Did you ever keep any of her hair when you were dressing it.

Yes.

You had better tell everything connected with this affair.

I am doing the best I can. Here is some of her hair.

Did you feel an affection for her.

Certainly, naturally as a man would.

Did you feel jealous toward the other fellow that came out here.

No.

(McFarland here told of the frequency with which he had maintained relations of intimacy with Mrs. Sheedy, and said that she had once informed him that she had become pregnant in consequence thereof, and that she had taken steps to escape the maternity of a black child.)

Isn't it a fact that you went to that drug store and bought that whisky and came down there and smashed Sheedy over the head with a cane.

No sir, if it is the last words I ever say--I didn't.

That whisky made you a little fall, didn't it. Made you feel kind of good didn't it.

Yes, it made me feel pretty good.

You got that whisky and it made you feel pretty good, and you came down and smashed Sheedy and run. Now, tell me the truth--we want you to make a clean breast of it.

I will tell the balance of it. I will make my statement. I am already in it, and I have to get one of the best way I can, and I might as well tell the whole thing. I said I didn't come back from supper. I did come back. I promised her I would come back, and when I came back she met me right on the porch, where I left her. She told me that Mr. Sheedy was sitting in the house. She went into the house and brought me out a drink of whisky--nearly half a glass full. I drank the whisky. I was standing right by the well and she pumped a bucket of water; she told me where to go, and gave me the cane. Well, I'm in for life or death anyway, and I've got to die, anyhow, and then she came back again, and she said, "I guess he is not going to go down town, but I am going in to advise him to go out and take a walk; and when he starts out to take the walk I will give you the signal by raising the window curtain over the east window, and when I do that, she said, "Then you step up on the porch and hit him. If you don't kill him it is all right, all I want is to get him into bed and I'll finish him." and sure enough she did. When he got ready she put his overcoat on and gave me the signal through the window. After I got there my heart failed me. Then I knew I was a goner anyhow, and I hit him. I don't know how hard I hit him; I don't think I hit him very hard.

Hit him with the cane.

Yes sir.

With both hands.

I was so scared I can't tell whether I hit him with both hands or not. Anyhow I dropped the cane.

You must have hit him twice.

No, I don't think I did. And then I turned and run, and she slammed the door to, and when I turned and run I fell, and he shot at me three or four or five times, I don't know which it was.

He didn't hit you.

No, he didn't hit me, but I thought I was dead.

Where did you fall.

I fell right off the porch; I went up against the lattice work.

Is that how you came to drop the can.

No, I dropped the cane before I turned round. The cane flew out of my hands when I struck him.

Did you see her after that.

No.

You didn't see her for several days afterward.

I saw her at a distance.

You said a while ago that you and your wife were there Wednesday.

I didn't get to see her.

Did you stop behind the house then, or did you go out in the alley.

I went right on out in the alley.

Where did you go from the alley.

I went out on O street. I went out to Thirteenth street and went right on down Thirteenth street.

Had you tied the gate open so you could get out that way.

No, sir.

There was another man with you, was there not. A smaller man than you are.

No, there was nobody with me.

You did it all alone by yourself.

I did it with her assistance.

Now, was there not some other fellow a little smaller than you are, with you.

No, sir, there was not.

How far had you gotten from where you struck Sheedy until he fired the first shot.

He fired the first shot at me about the time I hit him.

He did.

Yes, he had his hand on his gun when he came out of the door, and of course the minute he stepped out of the door he flashed his eyes one me, and about as quick as I could hit him he shot. All he had to do was to snap it from his pocket.

He didn't say anything.

No.

Do you think he recognized you.

Yes.

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the door shut, and I told her. I said, "Mrs. Sheedy, I have got to give this up; I can't do it." I said, "the man no longer than Friday offered to fit me up a nice barber shop, and I can't do it; I have come to tell you; if you want to shoot me, just do it." She said "I have a God d---d good notion to shoot you, and tell the people you're trying to rob me," and I said "If you want to shoot me, shoot me, but don't tell people around here that I was trying to rob you." She said, "I have got a good gun and it shoots twice, and shoots a big ball and I've got a God d---d good notion to shoot you," and I thought she was going to shoot me.

Where was you; in the house?

I stepped out of the door then. My feet were on the porch.

Was the door open?

Yes, because I thought she was going to kill me. She told me to leave that cane. Well, I don't know just where I set the cane down, but I she was was going to kill me. She told me to leave that cane. Well, I don't know just where I set the cane down, but I set it up against the wall somewhere and she said, "Now, hold up your hand. If you hold up your hand and swear that you will never tell nothing that I have told you or no secrets, no matter what happens, I will let you go; but if you ever do, I will have you killed--before you get on the witness stand. Your blood money will never do you any good." and it done me so much good that I just dropped on my knees and held up both hands and I said I will never tell anything. That is the reason I was afraid to tell last night. And she said to me, "Now you take a walk; don't you never speak to me any more; you go out the back gate," and I went out the back gate and went to Fourteenth street to the barber shop to get my overcoat, but the man was not there and I turned right around and came right on down Fourteenth street to P street and then came right down P street home to supper; and I didn't find my wife there.

What time did you eat supper?

I was to eat supper at 6 o'clock, but I didn't eat because my wife was not there, and I waited a while for her, and it was about 6 o'clock when I got home or after 6, and I waited around there for her and she didn't come, and I said, "I am not going to eat supper now; it is about 7 o'clock and I will go up to George's and get my wife," because I knew she was up there and when I started away it was about five minutes to seven as near as I can remember; I started out and went over to this drug store out there and got myself a half pint of whisky and during my walk from there to where George lives I drank this; it was a half pint of whisky I mean; I drank this half pint of whisky I mean. I drank this half pint of whisky and just about the time I was opening the door there to go into the house--just in the act of going in--I heard the report of his revolver.

Into Bott's house?

Yes sir, I was going into Bott's house, and I just stopped a second and I heard the next one, and then I turned and went into George's and I hadn't any more than started in than I met this man, this man I had been hunting that had my overcoat, and he said, "Hello, I've been looking for you." He said, "I want my overcoat." I said, "That is what I wanted. Is my wife here yet? And he said, "Yes, Where is that shooting?" I said, "I don't know." He said, "I just started out to see."

You suspected, of course, but I didn't know, because I was not expecting to hear any shooting; we changed overcoats and just stepped back inside the door and I stepped in and he spoke up and said to my wife, "Monday is here and wants you to go home," and she got up and I went down O street home.

What time wast this?

Right after this it was not more than five minutes time I was there.

It was after the shooting when you when you started home?

Yes, I started from there home.

Who is the other man you speak of?

He runs a barber shop out on Fourteenth street.

Where did you go that night?

I stayed home until about half-past nine.

You reached home about what time?

It generally takes me about half an hour to go from there home.

Where did you go when you left home?

I came back to town--right straight up O street--right straight up O street on the south side to Mr. ----------, do you know where this drug store is opposite the post office? I went up that stairway and I took off my overcoat and laid down there and went to sleep.

When did you leave there to go home?

About half past 12, I guess, and I went over to Lindsay's and got a drink and had a little lunch, and this man that tends the tables in there when I saterted out he told me about this accident about somebody trying to kill Sheedy. Mrs. Sheedy said to me that if she had him on the bed she would finish him; that she would get somebody to do enough to keep him in bed and she would finish him; that is all she wanted. That she had some stuff there that Dr. Fuller had left there, and he told her when he left it. "If you give him a little overdose it will kill him," and she said she could give him a little overdose or chloroform him.

Who did Dr. Fuller refer to giving it to?

To Sheedy, I guess, and she said that if she couldn't do it with that she could do it with chloroform. She said she did chloroform him. She said she did chloroform him once in order to rob him; this was about the time they were having this fight with the gamblers. She said he drew out $5,000 order to buy up the council, and she said she chloroformed him to rob him, but all she got was a one dollar bill and a two dollar bill, and that was all she got.

You started to tell about changing overcoats with this fellow--did he kill him?

No, sir.

Then you killed him?

No, sir.

Who did?

I don't know, I changed overcoats with Mr. Stepney.

How did you come into possession of his overcoat.

We were out having a time, like we always have been since we've been here, and sometimes I wore his overcoat and sometime he wore mine, and this time we happened to change and I went home with his and he went home with mine.

Did you ever have any talk with Mrs. Sheedy about this matter after the shooting six weeks ago.

She said she supposed it was done for robbery, and she asked me if I heard of it and I said yes, and she asked me what I thought about it.

Did you have a gun at that time?

No, sir, not then I didn't.

You had no gun then?

No, sir.

When did you have a gun for the last time in your possession?

Monday.

Which Monday?

Last Monday.

When did you get that gun?

Oh, I got that gun a little before Christmas.

Where did you get it?

I bought it with a fellow.

When was the shooting?

I couldn't tell you what day it was.

If you and Mrs. Sheedy had had this talk before he was shot at, and then this followed and he was shot at, you naturally would suppose she was carrying this out by some means, wouldn't you?

Of course I had my ideas about it, but I didn't dare say.

You and she would talk this matter over and would speak of it, but you wouldn't speak of it as robbery, when you and she had planned it all over, would you? Now, what was your talk?

The talk we had? I will tell you. It was just like this. She kind of laughed and asked me what I thought about it, and I told her I thought it was done for robbery, and she said, "Of course, he thinks so," and then she laughed.

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