Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-07
WHOLE NO 1886.
THE HARLAN CASE.
Sill Tells of His Interview with Graft In
Detail.

III Tue iiuliui Csise yesterday afternoon
as Woodland, argument on the question
rs to whether Sill should be permitted to
n.,zra4e the communication he made TO de.
fendant Harlan on Thursday before the
homicide, was resumed, and the Court
permitted the question to be answered.
Sill their made the following statement
fI mesAIr Harlan on Thursday e-ening
In the dinin, y-loom of his house. r tool, a
seat besi4e hl'In and told him tbat wished
20 ask his adv zee III regard to q certain mot.
/ ier, and asked him if he would allow roe
- tell hiniall The circumstances copneeted
Sitb il. He consented 10 it, and / told
rim that s5n Tuesday afternoon
was passisg Endsay's drug store
witlr Lou HsIngsTor;h. and that Graf
called to me fAd said that he wanted fo 600
me. He cans up and told me that he
waIHed to talk io me IN the parIor of the
Byros Hotel, as5 thas he had sometime.
of gTset importance 10 say tome ItoId him,
that hHould not 60 wiiA him. and thar
did no. want to lfsya anything to do wifi,
MN out hnally .)nseaAed 10 20. if he
would allow HolllHs5swoytas to be with MS.
he consented to stat, aars went into the
parior OF the ByrnS Hotel. When we ,,ot
into the cpaFlor, Graz objected to HoIIin9s-
worth being present. and i-Bisted that he
should S, out, whiclshe did sat on the
piano ssIol, near the siano. Craft
closed the-eloor after Hollingsworth went
and then came back aad sat in Cont of me
lie unbutt0ned his coat put his hand in
his back pscket, and said, Do Tou know
that your wife gave birth TO q fo,fr-rnonths'
child last Aigust?' | answered. No
know she did not got up and told him
that | would not listen TO any sch talk.
lie said, She did, by G., aud have got
story that | want to tell you said, Il
will not listen 10 any such talt as that
He said, Yes, yoG will. G. d
you you have got to 10 i'-or
something TO that effect. He then said
Do you remember the time that Harlan's
folks and yourself CAME from Santa Cruz 10
San Francisco, and ! met yOu there At
that time | took your wife to a doctor. ana
stood over her While she had an abortion
performed. The next day she carae home.
and few DAYS aiterWard / went out 10 her
house. On leaving She followed me out
to the gate, and said that she wanted to
commit suicide that she could not sand
the disgrace if people found it ont but |
talked her out OF IT,. He said that a few
days after she came home she gave birth
TO a four months child at her house. He
said finally talked herout of the idea #
suicide, and he said that She had written
him letters to Sacramento. tellina him
that she was N this condition, and for him
to help her out of it; that he had tried all
the doctors iii Sacramento, but could get
none of them 10 do anything for her. that
while she was at Santa Cruz she had writ
ten to him that something must be done
that he had met her at San Francisco, and
the results testified to had occurred that
she had told him that be was the father of
the child, but that as she had married me.
it went TO prove that he was not. and that
was the father. He said that he had lei
ters from her and the doctor TO
prove what he had said, and that
if l would wait there until he co1ld
go and get them he would show
them to me, to prove that what he had told
me was the truth. / told him that no
proof or letters that he could bring me
would make me believe what he had said.
He said that there was 500 doctor bill
haneing over his head that Joe Harlan
ought to pay il, and he thought l ought to
pay it. He said, What l now demand of
you and your wife is paper signed bv her,
exonerating me from being the father of
that child. / will give You until
tonight to give me an answer whether
you will give it to me or not,
evening TO furnish that paper He also
demanded to see my wife in my presence.
told him that his statements were false.
and that he would never get such paper
from me, nor would | allow him 10 see
her. He said if we did not give him the
paper that he would blacken the characters.
of myself and wife until we could not
walk upon the street and hold our heads
up, and he would make US so afraid of
him that we dare not appear ON the
street. He said, If you do not give me
such an exoneration. | will take the papers
and the proofs, and will go to old Har-
daughter sign it. | said to him.
Go to Mr.. Harlan and see what kind OF a
reception he will give YOU He said, I
will force him to do it, and | have got an
instrument here to make him do it, with
which he pulled his pistol partially out of
his pocket. ! said Have you ANYTHING
further to say to me-? lie said, If YOU
don't give me that paper, G. d. you,
will make YOU He also said that at the
time the opera of The Bells ofCorneville'
was presented at Woodland she was two
months III that condition, and he said, Do
you remember taking her home from the
opera the last night? She had been taking
medicine to get rid Oft on thai highland she
reason that she broke down at the end of
the opera and fainted away then told
Mr.. Harlan that ! got Mr.. Beamer, the
Sheriff, and went to Craft. ! met Craft in
front of Ponds drug store, and told him
that | had come 10 give him his answer.
He said, Come back into the drug store,
into Dir. Kier's office We went in there.
| said to him. The statements that you
made to me are lies, and if you bother or
molest myself or wife any further you will
have to take the consequences Graft said,
Very well, sir. have your answer. Now
l will proceed to act He said to
Bearner Do you come here as an officer
or a citiZeng Beamer said, came here
as citizen, to prevent trouble between YOU
two men,. Graft said, made a certain
statement to this man in the Byrns Hotel,
and offered to prove by letters and papers
what said. He refused to look at them.
say that he is a coward and liar We
then tried to have fight aud Beamer
separated us and told me to go out. AsI
started to 90 out Craft said to rue, You
are a coward. IL any mand ha made The
statements to me that were made to you in
tie par,or of the Byrns Hotel. /
would mop the floor with him, and 1
would never let him get out of the
door alive. He said, | gave this mans
WIG a Nhdi'SS ~ ol-Ai paper c-NObtldtlub
me from certain statement that she made
against me, and If she had signed it there
would have been no further trouble with
me; but now l propose to see it through
to the end Beamer argued with him, and
told him that he was wrong, and was acting
wrong towards me, and if he would let me
alone he would not have any trouble with
me. As.I went out told him that had
given him his answer, and for him now to
take warning. / also told Mr. Harlan
what Pond had told me that Craft had
said on the evening before. Graft
then said, L have right to shoot
Sill down Oh the street like a dog.
] have not done it, yet my friends wonder
why | have not done it. have friends
and money to back me, 50 that no BARN
shall come to me. Bst if that c.
don't exonsrate me soon, will,
and he put his hand in his pocket. L think
that conversation with defendant lasted
about half or three-quarters Of an honr.
Harlan told me that the matter was too
sericns, and that he had no advice to give.p
Witness then testified in dstai concern
ing his own movements on she day of the
hcmicide antfhe- stated that on that tlay
District Attorney Sprague happened into
bis store. and witness asked him if Harlan
aad said anything TO him about Craft dur.
mg the conversation. Serague answered
that he lad not, but is some one would
swear to a. warrant against Graf, he would
make his bond so high that he would be