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trouble has happened in this city; I suppose I have made considerable
trouble for you people and for the citizens of the town.

Q. Have you any relatives living in this country?

A. No, sir.

Q. Any in Germany?

A. Yes, sir; I think I have, I haven't been in correspondence for quite
a while, I don't know if they are well.

Q. What relatives have you?

A. I have a mother living there.

Q. Mother?

A. Yes, brother and sister.

Q. At Erding?

A. No, they are at Tyrol.

Q. Switzerland?

A. Tyrol that is not Switzerland, that is Bavarian Tyrol.

Q. Have you ever been in trouble before?

A. No, sir; not that I remember.

Q. Ever been arrested for anything?

A. Not in my life.

Q. Have you ever been committed to an institution of any kind?

A. No, sir; never, I have always stayed out of trouble, I have never
been in any trouble whatever, and this trouble I committed myself, now
I am contented I did.

Q. You are not a bit sorry?

A. No, sir. You may look up the records of all New York police
headquarters, because I have never been there, I have never been
arrested there.

Q. What did you say your name was?

A. John Schrank.

Q. Did you tell anybody that you were going to leave your baggage
there?

A. I told them people I was going to stay away for about three days.

Q. Did you make any arrangement for them to send it in case you wrote
for it?

A. No, sir; I stopped there two days and paid eight dollars in advance
for a week's board, and I dressed up and went away and I told the
people I might be back in three days and of course ever since then they
didn't hear anything of me and I guess if they do hear and I can
communicate they will give it over and all perhaps they will charge is
the storage.

Q. Why did you tell them you were going to be gone three days?

A. I didn't think it would take longer than three days when I would be
away.

Q. Then you thought you would go back?

A. I thought I would be arrested, I couldn't tell.

Q. What does your grip contain?

A. Nothing but a suit of clothes and underwear and I got a deed to my
property and as I told you the box where the gun is in and that's about
all there is in.

Q. Are you a full citizen?

A. Sir?

Q. Are you a full citizen?

A. What does that mean?

Q. Got your second papers?

A. I never had my first, I come over here a minor; I got my papers when
I was twenty-one, I think my paper reads July twenty-third,
ninety-s