Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-20

any statement to make and he said he
had not, but that it was mistake
about hum being wanted for the kill
ing of the Mexican thieves who tried
to steal the ore from the mines,
/, but that he was wanted for
something else; that report
had been current that Deputy Sheriff
James Maddox was concerned In his
arrest, but that was not so; that he
had asked Maddox TO 20 to the
depot with him and that Maddox
knew nothing of the arrest until late
In the evening; that Maddox was the
first Fort Worth officer who came in
the room at the Ginnochio hotel after
the arrest.
+" How about the statement that
you are wanted only as
q witness against Casey and
Scott, charged with the murder
Of young Groestedt and his brOther-in-
lawp asked the reporter.
"Thats all nonsense. Heavy re-
wards are not offered for witnesses and
i am wanted Oh u charge of murder.p
"Do you think you could have a fair
trial If taken TO New Mexico?
"knowlnh :he bitter feeling between
the Americans and the Mexicans l am
convinced that / could not. The asser.
ton that l am wanted as n witness is
only made to allay the public feeling
in this city,
The following is a statement in writ
ing sent THE GAZETTE. in reference
to the report that Sheriff w. Il. Mad
dox and his deputy James Maddox
were concerned In the arrest:
Asst has been circulated that W. II. Mad
dox and James Maddox aided and helped TO
decoy me 10 the Union depot so M could be
arrested, take this method ofinformiug the
public that such Is NOT the case and IN wholly
without foundation. Walter Maddox knew
nothing OF any one being here to arrest me,
and as TO James Maddox, / went to him al
the Occidental and asked him 10 20 10 the
Union depot with me. lie refused, telling
only NJ my most urgent request that he
finally consented 10.
am perfectly satisfied that neither OF them
knew anything whatever OF what was going
TO ha pom. l make this statement IN Justice
10 bOtu men because know mel her OF them
had anything Whatever TO do with helping TO
capture me and Will say TO the public that
they are both now, and always have been,
my warm personal friends and such state
ment being circulated on them mortifies me
almost 8s much as my arrest.
Il. l. CoURuntGIrr.
Capt. Harry Richmond, chief of
police at Albuquerque, n. NJ, tele-
ZETTE reporter and made the
following statement: "Some eighteen
months ago, an old woman
seventy years of age, named
Groestedt, lived thirty miles
from Albuquerque on q ranch; she had
son and son-in-law; the son had four
weeks before married beautiful
French woman, and these four lived
on this ranch, in which Surveyor lem
eral Atkinson of New Mexico and
others are interested. One Sunday a
crowd Of men, In which was Jim
COPYRIGHT, Jim McIntire, McAllister,
James Casey, Melton Scott and w. c.
Moore, started to the ranch mentioned.
The crowd had in their possession
warrant issued by John G. Casey,
justice OF the peace, charging Groestedt
and his brother-in-law with being
'rustleTs.' The crowd came within
half a mile of the ranch, sent down and
learned that the two men had gone to
u neighboring ranch seven miles
away TO borrow pillow the crowd fol-
lowed on the trail of the two men !;
met them three miles from home re-
turning; ordered them to abandon
their wagon and mount their two
horses they rode two or three hum
bred yards when the two men were
ordered to dlsmount and as they were
in the act of doing so, the crowd filled
them with buckshot. OF the crowd
mentioned James Casey and Melton
Scott have had two trials for this muir
der, both in the Second judicial dis
trict of New Mexico the facts stated
above are from the evidence deduced
at those trials. To-day Casey and Scott
are at liberty in Albuquerque under
$4,000 bail, each. 1t is be noted that
the people of that section are law-abid-
ing and with no desire to indulge in
mob law, else they would have made
way with Casey and Scott; 1t is there
fore clear that no one desires TO do
aught TO CouTtright or McIntire.
They are positively not wanted there
for trial for that murder; they are SIM
ply wanted as material witnesses
against Casey and Scott. The talk
about danger to COurtright is all nom
sense. There has been no reward of
fered for these men for conviction;
only a $1,000 offered for them delivered
to the sheriff of Berualillo county.
They are merely wanted as witnesses.
Worth by the middle of this
by the end of this month. The peo-
pie of Albuquerque are mostly Ameri-
cans, law abiding and not given to
lynch law. may state further that
before leaving Albuquerque had been
given To understand that COPYRIGHT
could not be arrested; therefore TO pre-
vent any possible violence we desired
TO have the matter as quiet as possible;
mt only that Int IL WAS essential that
we get McIntire, and publicity about
Courtright's arrest might have put
MeIntire ON his guard and lie would
have evaded us. COPYRIGHT expressed
willingness to go to New Mexico
after he had gone up town and seen
his family and secured some money
from his friends. AS Capt. Schmitt did
not arrive with McIntlre on last nights
Fort Worth and Denver train /
asked COPYRIGHT to write his
wife note saying he had