Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-20
Further Confessions of the Murder.
ers-Steen Arrested for Ac-
cepting Stolen Property.

foot of space was occupied, and no one left
until the proceedings were finished. Drager
was placed in the prisoners dock, and Olsen
and Myers were given seats on the bench
to the left of the Clerks desk, just outside
the prisoners dock. The spectators in the
back part of the room climbed upon the
seats and stretched their pecks to get good
view Of the countenances of the men who
have created such a sensation in the COM
munity of late by their confessions of one
of the most cruel and brutal murders in
the history of crime in this vicinity. Myers
and Olsen are not bad looking men, but
Drager has repulsive countenance.
THE EXAMINATION.
The first witness sworn was William NJ.
Lowell. who testified that be had lived in
| Sacramento off and on for twenty-seven
years. John Lowell, deceased, was his
father, and had charge of certain ranches,
stock and personal property belonging to
him. One ranch is in Ell Dorado county
Had never during this year given his father
Knew Myers, but never saw Olsen before
Some of the stock belonging to him was
on the Ell Dorado ranch and some in Sac
ramenio county. Afterwards he found
two of the horses in the possession of
Colonel McNasSer, two in possession of
Mr.. Bauquier, one in Woodland in the DOS
session of Peter Lawson, and buggy and
a harness aud a COW in the possession of
John Steen. Never sold any of the prop
erty to the defendants or anyone else. The
horses were worth about 81 500 or 81 600
Each of the defendants was asked if he
desired to ask the witness any questions
and each responded in the negative.
sTEEN ON THE WITNESS STAND.
John Steen, the next witness called. tes-
tilted that he was in the dyeing and saloon
business at Twenty-fifth and ] streets
Knew Myers, Olsen and Drager; knew the
latter since last fall, just after harvest, and
got acquainted with Myers and Olsen last
January, when they had the Klotz ranch
rented. They became acquainted with
Drager at his saloon. and they all used to
visit there. Bought a buggy and some
harness from Olsen and Drager, for which
he paid S13 cash, receiving a bill of sale,
dated April 4, 1888. Witness produced the
bill of sale and it was admitted in evil
dence. The consideration mentioned in
the bill of sale was SIS. Olsen signed his
name as John Selma, and Drager signed
the name of B. Schmitt. Witness called
Drager's attention to the fact that he did
not sign his own name, but he claimed
that he had signed his right name. Did
not recognize the buggy as Lowells
Myers had said that he had got the buggy
up in the mountains. Myers and
Olsen had buggy when they were on the
Klotz ranch; bought a COW from Myers
which the latter said belonged to Mr.
Lowell paid $25 for it and received bill
of sale signed by Myers; told Myers he
wanted bill of sale from Lowell, but
Myers said Lowell had told him to write
out bill of sale, which he did, and signed
| L
place one Sunday morning in March and
said he had some horses out on the grant
that he was going to sell. They got
horse and buggy from his neighbor, Mr..
Toomey, and went out to look at the
horses. They brought in a black mare and
colt, which were kept at his place one
night, and the next day sold to MI. Gebert
| Myers took the mare to Mr.. Gebert and
sold her in the morning, and in the after
noon he went with him and Myers sold the
colt to Mr.. Gebert. He went down with
Olsen to Mr.. Churchman'S place, on ]
street, when the latter wanted to sell some
gangplows that were taken as part pay
ment in the trade with Mr.. Gebert. Myers
had told him a month before that he had
| some horses up in the mountains some
where in pasture. In regard to the bill of
sale by Myers for Lowells COW witness
said that he ust took his word for it. He
never spoke to Mr. Lowell about it after
wards, because he thought if there was any
thing wrong about it Mr.. Lowell would
| have said so.
Each of the defendants was asked if he
had any questions to ask the witness
Drager asked him: 81 Did get any money
on the buggy" Witness replied that he
did, and Drager said: a must have been
drunk then. | don't know whether you
paid me Sl3 or not. l did not get it."
| Stien said that he paid SIS and they d.
vided it upon his bar, each taking $6 so
He paid them S. in gold and s. in silver
| They had asked him to put the amount in
the bill of sale at $50, but not to say any,
thing about what he did really pay.
Olsen spoke up and said that Stien only
paid 81 for the buggy and harness. Myers
had no questions to ask.
THE AUCTIoNEER TEsTIFIEs.
Louis Bell testified to selling three of the
horses at auction. Knew Myers for some
time, and knew that at one time he was
running the Klotz ranch. Never knew
Olsen until he brought the horses on the
| 31st day of March. About two months
previous, Myers notified us that he had
| some horses on the ranch and that as soon
as he could get around to it he would
bring them in 10 be sold About
| the latter part of March he stopped
in and told Mr.. Lambert that he
had some horses that he would send
| in to sell on Saturday. They were sent in
and sold them. Olsen brought them and
wanted the money, but L would not pay
him. wanted Myers to come SO that /
could see if it was the same Myers, so that
l could guarantee the title. Myers came
down towards evening, and so guaranteed
the title to Colonel McNasser. He understood
Olsen to say that he was Myers brother.
Witness continued-So along towards
evening when Myers came down, of course,
knowing Myers so long, l suppose, and
never having heard anything against him,
and supposing that he was an upright,
honest man, l paid him the money. As he
passed out he threw me half dollar and
| says: " Go and take something" He did
| not know l did not take anything He
| went along and threw the book keeper
| half and says: You go take something
Then he came to Lambert and threw him
half and said: You go take something"
He could afford to do that on my money
OF course l guaranteed the horses to Mr..
McNasser. l supposed everything was all
straight. Myers never said Olsen was his
brother.
When the defendants were asked by the
Court if they had any questions to ask.
Olsen said that he did not tell Mr.. Bell
that he was Myers brother.
Mr.. Bell said he was not positive, but he
was under the impression that he did. He
gave as an excuse for Myers not coming
himself that he had erysipelas and when
Myers came down he had comforter or
| scsrf wrapped around his head.
CHIEF LEES TESTIMONY.
Chief of Police Timothy Lee was the
next witness. He gave briefly the state
ments made to him by the prisoners, all of
which have been published in the RECORD
UNION. The statements were freely and
voluntarily made, without any inducement
or Offer of reward, and they were notified
of their rights. The story in brief was
that they left here TO 90 to the Lowell
ranch for the horses. They do not exactly
agree as to the date, but it was
somewhere ne&r the 10th of March
They all agreed on the day they
left the Lowell ranch, which was on
Saturday evening, the oath of March. They
acknowledge taking the horses, except
Drager, who claimed that ne did not 20
on the Low ell ranch; that be did not go
within mile and half OF it; that he re-
NAMED in camp while the other two went
to the ranch; that they were gone all day
and came back with the horses. Both
Olsen and Myers contradicted that and said
that they all three went on the l. well