
Jail Cell Wall
Caril is the one who said to go to Washington State. by the time any body will read this i will be dead for all the killings. then they can not give caril the chair to. from Lincoln Nebraska they got us on Jan 29, 1958
1958 kill 11 persons
| Charles kill | 9) all men |
| Caril kill | 2) all girls |
| __ | |
| 11 |
They have so many cops and people watching us…I can’t add all of them up.
List of Admitted Crimes
Armed robbery (Dec. 1 at Crest Service Station)
Attempted safe burglary or robbery (at Crest Station)
Assault (simple, common, felonious, aggravated, with deadly weapon; and battery, with intent to do great bodily harm)
Unlawful transportation of a dead body (Bartlett’s bodies and others moved)
Forcible entry
Petty larceny and grand larceny
Mayhem
Inciting to riot, and disturbing the peace
Auto theft
Discharging firearms within the city limits
Carrying concealed weapons (knife and .32 cal. pistol)
Possession of shotgun with sawed-off barrel
Unlawful flight to avoid prosecution
Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
Accessory (before, after and during the commission of a felony)
Perjury
Execution of a false document (conflicting confessions)
Destruction of private property
Destruction of evidence and mutilation of a body
Violation of Dyer Act (transporting stolen auto across state line)
Violation of Mann Act (woman across state line for immoral purposes)
Violation of Smith Act (gun across state line for illegal purposes)
Speeding (over 110 mph in Wyoming chase)
Resisting arrest
Reckless driving and running red light (Douglas)
Letter
Dear Mom and Dad. i’m a way i hat to write This or maybe will not read it, but if you will i would like to have you read it, it would help me a lot.
i’m sorry for what i did in a lot of ways caus i know i hurt everybody, and you and mom did all you could to rise me up right and you all ways help me when i got in bad with something But this time i would like you not to do any thing to help me out. i hope you will understand . . . it would make me happy if everybody well go on just like anything didn’t happen. the cops up here have been more than nice to me but these dam reporters, the next one that comes in here is going to get a glass of water.
But dad i’m not real sorry for what i did cause for the first time me and Caril have more fun, she help me a lot, but if she come back don’t hate her she had not a thing to do with the Killing all we wanted to do is get out of town
tell every body to take care. Chuck.
P.S. tell Bob VonBruck to thing of somebody besids him he help cause this.
We Knowed That the World Had Give Us to Each Other
…we was going to make it leave us alone.
Notes
Wyoming state line
Ayers Park and Natural Bridge Cutoff
west of Douglas on 20
Chief Robert Ainslie
Sheriff Earl Heflin
rise in the road
a small stack of stones
Converse County Jail
“You Can’t Run Away from Anything”


Notes
Bow Oil Company Service Station
Broken Bow
Alliance
Ellsworth
gas
Alliance
Crawford
Highways 2 & 20


Notes
shoe polish
Shinola/”You don’t know shit from Shinola.”
Highway 34
west toward Washington
Seward
shirt out the window
doors
temporal gateways
Grand Island
north to Highway 2
sandhills
the endless monotony of the landscape
pure flatness
the loss of distinction between earth and sky
Notes
red-headed woodpecker
telephone
long-handled knife
black leather motorcycle jacket
blue parka
Notes
Hunt’s Filling Station
Highway 34 & main street
two headlights
school books
English, math, history
west on Highway 6
Friend
Fairmont
Sutton
Hastings
Showboat Gas Station

Notes
Star Tavern
3024 N Street
OK Cafe
Fried Chicken Night
Jensen’s General Store
“Little Town”
green wallpaper w/ leaf design
bowl of red Jell-O
“Confasuis Says” (sic)
Rainbow bread
Meadow Gold

































