Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-04-26

"rHE ROYAL MINI
Miller Fixes Apgar's n nd
on Mortimer. Y
Mortimer still Claims that Fawo
did the Shooting-A Com
plicated Case--Ten Ne
groes in Limbo for
Completely.
1.-THE ROYAL NINN'

Coroner Cave summoned The
jury in the Apgar case together
Monday and the inquest Of
last Tuesday was resumed. The
first witness examined was John
Miller, the colored s'fence.n His
testimony puts the murder upon
Mortimer instead of Fawcett. He
testified as follows:
THE TESTIMONY.
Geo. Mortimer came to Mexico
to 1--we about Christmas. We
moved about two weeks ago to
where | now live. Mortimer left
the house late Monday night; came
back just before day Tuesday. He
acted troubled when he came in. |
talked with him about the killing
Thursday, when we went fishing.
He told me he would kill some
more Of them. Two men arrested
him in Louisiana on Decoration
day and he said he would kill
them, too, when he got a chance.
He told me that he killed Apgar
and asked what kind of a man he
was. The night he was arrested
he tried to get away but could not.
He did not say anyone was with
him but said he did it by himself
and went by himself. I thought a
heap of old man Apgar, and when
Mortimer acted 81 funny / took
him fishing to pump him ; and the
reason I did not tell till now is that
he told me he would kill me if |
did. I did not know he was a bad
man until I pumped him the day
we went fishing There he got mix
ed up and could not tell why he
suspicioned Mortimer. He was
not quite sure Mortimer said he
was alone but appeared to want the
jury to think that way. l had
nothingto do with the stealing or
killing and would have told
sooner but was afraid. [ had no
talk with Mortimer's wife about
the pistol on the night George was
arrested. Eat this stage of his tes-
timony Miller became mixed up
again and could not explain why
he did not tell this after George
was arrested I did not tell Faw-
cett not to talk. Harry Atchison
and Joe Botkin heard him.
When Miller's testimony was
read over to him he had a hard
time trying to straighten it out
and was evidently trying to sup
press a portion of the truth.
Either this or he has a defective
memory. AT least part of his evil
dence is known to be untrue, and it
looks as if Miller, Fawcett and
Johnson are all going to try to fix
the killing on Mortimer. The
jury apparently placed little con.
fdence IN Miller's testimony.
MORTIMER STICKS TO HIS STORY.
Geo. Mortimer's testimony was
as follows
1 am thirty years old. I weigh
155; am 5 feet, 10 inches; was
raised in Montgomery county
have lived here since three weeks
before Christmas. 1 was in the
Penitentiary four years and six
months for stealing a horse.
have lived with John Miller all the
time. Have not worked much.
My wife and baby are here with
me. [ was arrested Friday night
by a policeman for stealing. jim
johnson, ST. Fawcett and I went
out late Monday night from jim
Johnson's house about II O'Clock
l think. ST. said to me a;
, we started: "Give me your gun
as I may need one and I left mine
t at home" I gave him mine-tht
, one you have, which was found il
the stove. We went down by the
. public school to Mr.. Apgar's house
We stopped at the front gate John
son and | stopped outside and 81
Fawcett went IN, saying: 81 will
, , see what l can get here" In
moment or so we heard the pisto
: fire and ST. came running out ane
said 81 have shot some s. of
b., and we had better be gettin,
. away from here, boys" We all go
away at once and went west ant
then south to the bakery, where W.
separated 81. and Jim went ives
but ST. gave me pistol before h.
, left. Invent home to John Miller
between 2 and 3 o'clock. We hat
been out before stealing and tina
was what we went for. We hat
oftenbeen out before. My wife ct MT
in at the front door; did not tall
with her about it; l got up about
O'Clock in the morning after a goot
sleep. Miller and l went fishing
Y on Thursday; | did not talk to hin
about the killing while we wer,
fishing. Yes, Miller did speal
about the matter, but / did no
e talk about it, and said if he knew
he would not tell. | did not tel
him anything. Miller knew I ha,
5 a pistol; he fixed it for me once
We stolen the pistol from Mr.
q Logan Mundy's house in the win
!, ter. John knew us fellows wer
stealing and told me never to lie
: my wife know what we were doing
I never told Miller that I kilIe,