Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-07-19

three months | did not want to come to
Oregon, but they SAID must come, I
aud they would pay me we'll " h'ie |
at ST Louis, repeatedly told Moore
and Davidson my true name, where
was from aud ali about myself
Moore, Dayi1son and his gile. ana
m ,sei., all started 10 Oregon together;
arriving at Portland, | ssaId one night;
uext day A"ore took me 10 oregon
City on ,ho cars; M:Cown or johnson
took nie from the cirs 10 the hotel at
Oregon City; the second day { think
it w,s) aiserI got to Oregon City.
Johuson came ~ my room at the hotel,
aud said he had met me III St. Louis y
said -ion yoa know me! | wls IN
81. Louis with Moore and Green
Davidson Ie then commenced talk
my t. tae about who | was, aud where
c4uc from, and | thonght he was
partner Of Moore aud n4vi ieon, on3
commenced 1eunng n'm wnat my true
tame WI. aui here | came from he
tim said his dinner was waiting. and
he must 20 | do not want TO tel! Oh
John, n a. he never dii ne any harm
| Was taken ,ron Oregon City to the
opposite side o. the RIVER, aud stayed "A
lev day~; | was then sent 10 Green
DaylI-on's in Maroon county. after |
wen. here, Moore scnt ne S2VQ oy
Green Davidson
The paper Moore wrote for me 10
study while him aud rec were al til"
hotel opposite 81 Louis, Missouri, h"
took from me; do not know what he
/ did with it.
I Whn1 | ~an. 10 Green Davil<ons.
Moore came up, and wrote another,
aai gave It - me ; it was like the one
II, gave me at ST. Louis. except that
tn. one at s.. Louis made ne say
,nlv had onn son, aud the one he wrote
u, irecn D4yiison'- made me- say tha
hal two sous- Einice aud John--anC
tl4t Joap died AT Harmony Mission
I'A.s paper was given me about tire
months after went - t'reen DAVID
@on's, in Oregon | stu lied this pape
ia the presence ot' Green Davidson an'
his wife; studied this paper until
wore 1t out, and - they had TO writ
the thiri one About fonr or Eiy
months after went to Dtv,lson's II
Greg n. he paid me 81 100. While
was at Ore1pn C.fy, after the payni NJ
~ the summer ot 1871, / had 8 50
With me. aud lost, or some one stol
it from ne. and Green Davilson slep
, in the room with ne the night | los
IT.
-, he witnesses who sxore hat IA"
know u. and tha, my name Wa
, joseph Tnomls. swore falsely. for III
name i John & Nixon ! never sa'
G joe Meek in my lte, IN he mountain
? or anywhere else, until | saw h,m /
: Portland. | ucvcr was a hunter, {
: trappcr, or monntalnecr; never work
r ed on a mi Of any kind; never W.
/ at Harmony Mission, in Missouri;
a never knew Ei.zlhc,h Caruther, or he
e ,on Flnice. Ny wlies name ":
Elizabeth Toler, who married
: Batnw,n county, Ala5ama, ant by b.
: We had two cnillren. Ny wife, iatht
II died. and m,ther-in law married agai
. - man named Scarborough Melvin
e WAC lives in Baldwin county, Alabam
Is miles northeast Of Mobile; when
q lived in Alahema boated wood an
It lumber, and kept o boarding house
II Mobile, aud after | got crippled
e begged for a living.
o The whole sch me- o! bringing Y
10 Oceron as witness IN the trl
g about the Cafnthers estate. and as
k my knowing anything about the matt,
N IN any way shape or form, Is grar
~ fraud that | was hired by Moor" at
Y Davidson 10 swear to; the Whole stol
N was manufactured and drilled into n
/. by Moore and Davidson; | had to !eal
N my lessons like school boy Moo
ut generally wrote his; Davidson ga
to his VERBALLY, Davidson vas tcache
me time while | was at Green Davi
N son $, when he lived at Fairfield, tn,
pr kept me out in the woods two weeks
ID keep Hannah from seeing me he to
re me to keep away from Hannah, that
I tIannah) would kill me; Moore a,
n Davidson PIT white paint on my hu
e to make me look old Last Septemb
I aud Green Davidson came down
nc Oregon City to see johnson and Pea
| aud he man in the Land Office. n,
id to have them pay me the $4,000 th
re Moore agreed to pay as soon as t
s. suit was over but they refused to p
at the $4,000, for the reason that Ham,
to had given them trouble, and finally
le compromised by their agreeing to gi
he me So, 900, as tollows: Pease's no,
ut due the l+th o. September, 1873, I
,s 81 057 33, and Johnson and the IN
I'd in the Land Office to pay the balan
~ equally between then; the amount d
We from the man in the Land Office a,
as johnson was paid to me, and Peas,
note delivered TO me somewhere abo