Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-25

To cut the halters. A shot was fired then
somewhere outside of the barn, and then
More asked what is the matter. He and
More were then in the barn. This Mr.. Hay
mond claimed showed the untruth of Jones'
story, that they went there to lure More out
of the house. and then kill him. Here they
could have killed him as he left the house,
but Ferguson swears when the first shot was
fired More was in the barn. So there was
other firing there than at More. Ferguson
says there were two or three men that he
saw over More, and all he heard them say
was as he ran from them, one cried out :
Come on, boys, let's us CO." and he was the
nearest man Of all to them. Jones was be-
tween 20 and 100 yards away, and farther
away than Ferguson, and the men passed be-
tween Ferguson and the burning barn, yet
Jones heard and saw things which never
occurred, according to Ferguson. 1t
was proven that the Chinaman
went back toward the house to
get a knife for More to cut the horses loose,
but he was driven back and shot at. Juan
Olivas testified that Ramirez when sent for a
knife came back and said he didn't go into
the house to get it because he saw disguised
men outside. Ramirez himself swore that he
saw disguised and armed men, and came back
to the barn and began saving property. and
never told More that there were armed and dis
guised men outside because he thought them
frieLds, and in another case he said he had
thought them friends, and thought he recog-
nized one as friend, Mr.. Churchill. The
Chinaman and Ramirez say the men they saw
at the gate were small men, but Churchill is
very tall, and with -four sack over his head
must have seemed still taller. As to the
REcANTING OF JONES.
It was voluntary. He came to Mr.. Hay
mond to make his confession of perjury, aud
he told him to go before q magistrate and
make it, and he did. He gave the deposition
to Mr.. Raymond with the stipulation that it
should be sealed up and never used except on
consent of both Jones and Raymond, and it
was deposited with that understanding, and
SO now remains, and has been seen by no man
since save the depositary Jones is now in
Arizona. Subsequently Jones, on a trial of
another Of the prisoners, after much shuffling,
recanted and took back his former statements
MIR. Raymond then gave concise history of
his connection with the trouble about Jones
at Browns Hotel, in San Buenaventura,
claiming that Jones fled to Mr.. Fay, an at
torney for the defense, for protection, and
Mr.. Raymond found them both in Fay's
room, armed and under great fear and excite
ment, when Raymond rebuked Fay for hav-
ing anything to do with Jones, and Fay re-
piled he'd protect dog. Whereupon Mr..
Raymond left, and on the street met MIR.
Williams and they had some words about
Jones and his whereabouts. He claimed that
Jones, while prisoner, was frequently taken
out of jail to be interviewed by the prosecu-
tion, which was violation of law and an
Z" escape under the Penal Code. Thus Jones
was led to believe he was prisoner, when,
in fact, he was being prepared as a witness for
the prosecution. He denounced this pro-
ceeding roundly, and read from Jones'
testimony to show that the proceeding
was an outrage. Yet that man, when
no longer prisoner, when free
man. fleeing to the protection of J. d. Fay,
nor a more gallant one ever died, was pur-
sued and bounded by the prosecution, and
now it attacks in pamphlet the dead Fay
for doing for Jones, whom he told to his face
he despised and loathed, what his chivalrous
nature bade him DO for even dog. AT this
point Mr.. Raymond made
TERRIBLE ASSAULT
Upon Judge Fawcett, denouncing him in
eloquent invective and with the most fearful
He read then from Jones'
testimony, to show he was several times taken
from all to the Palace Hotel to meet counsel
lof tlc prooeCusiOH, anu Willie bneIe WAS pun
in o room where some one was hid in a closet
to overhear what was said.
Mr.. Williams-Do you state that as truth
Haymond-Wl.at?
Williams-I mean do you cite that as truth
Haymond-Jones' statement.
Williams-Yes
Haymond-No; I read it to show he is
utterly unworthy of belief tells one story
one day and another the next.
Williams-You connect Judge Granger
with it by saying he met Jones there.
Haymond-Yes.
Williams-Judge Granger admits his true
relation to the matter. Wherever he is
known his word will be received as truth.
Why do you attack him?
Haymond-Because he permitted PAM
phlet to be printed and circulated all over
the land-except in Ventura county-about
this case, which he knows is full of lies from
beginning to end.
Mr.. Raymond then read from Jones' testi-
mony where he tells that Hall, the detective,
told him he had better confess, that he would
gain by it that he (the otficer) knew all
about his connection with the case That if
he'd tell all about it he could go free,
and that Jonathan Jones told him if he'd
tell him all about it he shouldhave $500 down,
and $1,000 later. That after his discharge,
counsel for prosecution told him his life was
in danger if he went out alone, and that
enemies would get up stories on him as to
what he might say, and thus break down his
testimony, so he consented to one Nathan
Stone staying with him and watching him.
Governor Perkins-Were all these facts
about Jones being in the hands of the prose-
cution shown in the Sprague trial?
Mr.. Williams-Yes, sir, the whole of it
his testimony being attacked it all came out
and one of the instructions to the jury was
given relative to that matter.
Mr.. Hart-The jury knew all about it and
passed on it.
MIR. Raymond then read from Jones' tes.
timony giving an account of his being kept
under the control of the prosecution, and how,
as soon as he got from under the watch of Stone,
he went to friends and stated that he had
committed perjury that all he had sworn to
against Sprague was false, and that Jonathan
Jones had told him to put in Hunt, Lord and
Mozart in his testimony because the prose-
cution had more against Hunt and Lord than
against Swanson. He read also from the tes-
timony where Jones swears that on the night
of the murder he and Curlee were all night
at their cabin in Pole Canyon that he i'm
plicated Curlee and Churchill in the story of
the murder because detective Hall told him
to. He had their names written down. He
had heard all about Hickerson's testimony
before he made his so-called confession, ~
and had also read the story in the Ventura
Signal. He then read from Deputy Sheriff
Snodgrass' testimony relative to what oc-
Cured when he had Jones in charge; that
he took him to the hotel as charged; that
Jonathan Jones visited him, etc.
Governor Perkins here remarked that he d
like to see that statement Jones made which
is deposited in the vault of the Treasurer of
Ventura.
Mr.. Williams-It appears that its produc-
ton depends on the generosity Of Jones.
Mr.. Haymond-I don't remember exactly
the Endorsement on the package. We can
telegraph and get the Endorsement. l think
it provides it shall not be opened without the
consent of both he and /. / am willing to
have it here.
Governor Perkins, don't think anything
Jones saws could have much weight with me.
He has evidently committed perjury in one
case or the other.
Mr.. Haymond and Mr.. Williams-Un-
doubtedly, in one case or the other.
Governor Perkins-Why couldn't Jones
be held for perjury?
Attorney. General Hart-Because it takes
two witnesses to prove it.
Mr.. Raymond said there were six Spragues,
McCart, Hunt, Lord, man in Santa Bar
bara. and others, in fact, fifteen witnesses or
more, who can prove the perjury, and fix it
on Jones.
MORE ABOUT JONES.
Mr.. Raymond said he wanted to introduce
statement made by Jones to the District
Attorney, and added that the testimony of
Jones in the last Churchill trial and in his