He did not acknowledge having killed his brother, but confessed to having been the incidental cause of that brother's death.

The story he told was this: "My name is Cadwalader, not Adams.

My father, a Scotchman by birth, was a naturalized citizen of Pennsylvania, having settled in a place called Montgomery when a young married man.

He had two children then, one of whom died in early life; the other was my brother Felix, whose violent death under the name of Adams you have called me here to explain.

I am the fruit of a later marriage, entered into by my father some years after leaving Montgomery.