Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-04-07

are now in Jail, with himself, were
the men. | said, don't know how
l can get away. My wife always
wants to know where L am. He
replied, My wife suspects some
thing, but does not know what. /
said, 1 don't like the idea of killing
him. He replied, You need not
shoot him; l only want you to
stand guard. We will have one
guard at the granary, one at the
blacksmith shop and Others around.
1 will do the killing. l asked,
Where will you meet, at More's ?
He said, No; we will meet at the
little slough between my house and
Lawton's. When you reach the
place, give low whistle and you
will be answered; then some one
will come to lead you to the place
of meeting. 1 asked, What is your
plan? He replied, We have ar.
ranged all that. We have tur-
pentine ball to fire the barn and
everything fixed. About two days
before the murder l had an errand
to ChurchilPs and after doing my
errand Churchill said, Tomorrow
night we are going to kill More
We have men now who will moi
back out. Have you a gun? Ian.
owered, Yes, but no ammunition
Churchill then drew from hi,
pocket five buck-shot and Offered
them to me, saying that powder
would be furnished at the place o.
meeting. He said he had beer
watching the road to More's house
all day to see who went there, and
the road from Lawton's had also
been watched. Shortly after the
murder l was irrIgating my grain
when Sprague came along and
after some conversation, he said
AS you may be expecting reward
in case you tell anything leading
to my arrest, 1 came to tell you
that the men who could kill More
will kill anybody that betrays
them. L told him l understood
that and he went away. Churchill,
also, afterwards, warned me to
keep still about the murder, max
ing the same threats. Crawford,
who worked for me, told me that
he thought 1 was in danger of my
life. The cross examination elected
nothing new.
Hickerson, the dying witness,
was then examined at his room at
the hotel, but nothing in addition
to his previous statements was dis
closed. The Court then adjourned
until half past eight o'clock on
Monday morning. Hickerson now
states that he never disclosed the
matter before because his testimo-
ny, unsupported, would not have
been sufficient to convict.
San Francisco News.
SANFRANCIsCo, April 6.-Judges
Morrison, Daingertield and Dwi-
nellie met this afternoon and APP
pointed as the new Board of Police
Commissioners Richard p. Ham
mond, of the Central Pacific Rail
read Company, VIM. Alvord, of
the Bank of California. and Robert
J. Tobin, of the Hibernia Bank.
The dies for the 4l23 grains dol.
lars arrived from Philadelphia to.
day, and the work of coming new
dollars will probably be commenced
next week.
The examination of witnesses in
the case of the raised street con-
tracts was continued to. day by the
Finance Committee of the Board
of Supervisors. Among the wit.
nesses examined were contractors,
experts, clerks, deputies and other
employees Of the office of Superin.
tendent of Streets. The principal
point adduced to-day was that one
Bunting, who had been "a clerk un.
der Hogan, the late Superintend.
ent, was at one time found to be q
defaulter, but he was allowed te
serve out his term, his son-in-law
making good the deficits. Bunting
is wanted as a witness, but has moi
yet been found.
The Hayes case, in connection
with the Platt's Hall meeting, was
continued before the Police Court
this afternoon. Kearney was put
on the stand, but nothing of inter-
est was elected.