Martinsburg Herald

Planned Chaining Victim.

At the police station the man said he planned after securing the money from Mr. Jones to take him to Independence, a suburb, where he would have chained him up in a house he had fitted up for the purpose. He said he had been planning the scheme for several months.

With his arms folded and his slouch hat pulled down over his eyes, Garnett stood surly and defiant in his cell. "Am I sorry for what I've done?" he said. "No. I'm not. The only thing I'm sorry for is that I did not kill myself before the officers got me."

"Three months ago I quit my job in Omaha and decided that as soon as my money ran out I'd kill myself. I came to Kansas City Jan. 28. About ten days ago, when my funds got low, I decided that the time had come to quit this world. I took the revolver I had bought in Omaha, and went out on a bridge that spans the Missouri. Just as I was about to kill myself the thought came to me that I still had one more chance--if I could only get a few thousand dollars. The thought then came to me to make an infernal machine."

Bought Dynamite.

"I went to a hardware store at Independence and purchased ten sticks of dynamite. I believed this would scare my victim. I had no intention of harming any one, I simply wanted money."