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Quotes by Criminal
"You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!"
Man,
"The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors."
"Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights."
"I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful."
"I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield."
"I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise."
"Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives."
"They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off."
"My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it."
"I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time."
Time,
"You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy."
"We might say that the state is like an addictive drug: the more of it we have, the more we 'need' it and the more we come to 'depend' on it."
"For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development."
"It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night."
"I thought 'God, what have I done?'... I realized I would be in serious trouble. I thought the best way out of the mess was to make sure she could not tell anybody."
"The women I killed were filth - bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit."
"I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders."
"The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive."
"Michael and Alex, I love you. And we're going to have the biggest celebration when you get home."
"It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child."
"I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!"
"When I get out... if I get out of here, I hope that maybe we can get back together and have more kids."
"I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me."
"I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life."
"I have put my faith in the Lord, and I really believe He's taking care of them. They're too beautiful and precious that He's not going to let anything happen to them."
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