RAWLINGS WILL TELL TRUTH,

He Wants the Court to Give Him Time for a Statement.

He says That, If Given an Opportunity, he Wants to Tell all That he Knows When the Court Passess Sentence Upon him again, Thinks all are Doomed.

J.G. Rawlings has sent word to Judge Mitchell asking him to give him twenty or thirty minutes for a statement when he goes to pass the death sentence at the end of the court this week

Rawlins says that he wants to tell the truth and that he will tell all of it if given an opportunity.

“I am the direct guilty white man” he says, “but there is another white man in this thing, besides the three negroes”.

He does not say who that other white man is, but he says the negroes are Henry Rice, Joe Nentley and Alf Moore. He still insists that his boys had nothing to do with the killings of the Carter children.

Last night Sheriff Passmore went up to the cell to see Rawlings and had quite a long talk with him at least, the sheriff heard Rawlings talk for quite a long time.

Rawlings said that he felt that the whole business was doomed. He was pretty positive that he was bound for hell and he thinks that all of the officials, even the jurors and witnesses are going there too. He says that he has had his eyes opened and that he knows that the whole “Shebang” is doomed.

It is evident from what he says that he has prepared a statement to be made when the sentence is passed upon him. Of course, he will be given a chance to say something but it is with the court whether or not he will be allowed free reins to say all that he may want to say.