BANDIT’S CONFESSION.
INNOCENT MEN SUFFER
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, NEW YORK, Dec. 31. Walter Wright, aged 30, started a bandit career five years ago. In November last he was robbing a bank in Des Moines, when a watchman named Griffen interfered. Wright shot him dead. Two other men, who were entirely innocent, were arrested and convicted of manslaughter, and l are today serving life sentences. Wright went from one crime to another, but felt so badly that innocent men had been convicted that he wrote a careful account of the facts, so that if he had the misfortune to die with his boots on justice might still be done. On Christmas Eve Wright robbed a bank at New Orleans. To-day Detective Farrar killed Wright while trying to arrest him at Mobile. Thousands of dollars in cash were found in his belt, together with the dramatic statement related above.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 January 1925, Page 5
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