"I--I--Doctor Fillmore, I've come to--confess. I put that telegram by the statue. Joe Matson didn't do it. He dropped it--I picked it up. He had nothing to do with pulling down the statue and doesn't know who did it. But he's got to play ball to-morrow or we'll lose the Blue Banner again. I'm the guilty one, Doctor--not of pulling the statue down--I won't tell who did that, no matter what you do to me. But I want Joe to play. Oh, I--I couldn't stand it any longer. I haven't slept, and--and----"