The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07
JESSE JEFFERSON.
MAKES A STATEMENT ABOUT THE
CREEDMoRE AFFAIR AND
VALVES EXAMINATION.
1t is Dramatically Opposed to a Statement
of Della Whitehand, Who Appears
to be More Sinned Against
Than Shining.

Jesse Jefferson, charged with as
sault upon Miss Della Whitehand,
was arraigned before Justice Calhoun
yesterday. All the witnesses includ-
ing the mother and sister of Miss Della
were present.
Jefferson was permitted to make a
statement, which is given below:
Jefferson, the defendant in the case,
after being duly cautioned as to the
law, and his right, says Of his own free
will: l was not with Miss Della
Whitehand during the night of Thurs
day, October "a, A. ID. 1889, and did
not take her from the house of her
mother, where she lives. | did not go
with her. | was nowhere near her
when / was arrested l did rot know
anything of her having been gone
until the next morning. When l
went to picking cotton saw two
men sitting on cotton sacks at the
cotton pile, and l asked them who
they were and they answered "Miller
and Asberry." This was before day
and the morning star was rising.
They asked me who | was and / said
Jesse. They said Jessie who? and /
said Jefferson. Miller then asked
Asberry if he knew me, and | knew
then something was up, as | knew
he had seen me often enough. Then
/ picked cotton little while and then
went around, then across the lane and
went up to the house of Mr.. John
McClintock, where 1 was staying.
When / got up there ] heard some
men talking. Bill Wells and Mr..
Hughes left soon after / got there and
went down the lane towards where
first saw the two men, and | heard
Bill Wells say he will fight the whole
mob if you get him started, and
that put me on the wonder again
as did not know what that meant.
l goes out in the lane between Mr.
John McClintock's house and the
school house and calls Bill Wells.
He did not answer me. About this
time Willie McClintock called me, as
he heard me calling, and knew there
was something up, and | would not
answer him. / goes down through
Mr.. Whitehand's cornfeld SSand comes
out about Charles Burchard's house
into the lane, and goes on down the
lane just below Mr.. Redman's gate
and three or four men overlook me.
| They had guns OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
guns of some kind. Just as they
passed me one of them looked down
and said that's him. They passed me
about fifty yards. One of them, Bill
| Wells, called me and told me he
wanted to talk with me, and l knew
there was something up and would not
go to him. l gets into Mr.. Asberry's
cornfeld and goes about fifty yards
and sits down until they passed on
down the lane. Then l got up and
came back and went down behind
them.
/ came on down to Mr.. Prices gate
He, Mr.. Price, called me, and | stop
ped and went to him, and he asked
me if they had found Miss Della
Whitehand, and | asked him where
she was at, and he said she ran away
last night. That was the first | knew
of her having been gone, and he said
he knew she was going to run off by
the way they were keeping her at
home so close. Jesse Ramie Mr.
Felix Miller's brother-in-law) l met
him at the gate, and he told me
that Miss Della had gone and that
the fellow who worked for Will Nc
Clintock took her off. That was me-
goes on down the lane towards Mr.
| Hughes and met Mr. Alex. Hughes,
Will McClintock and Felix Miller.
They speaks to me and asked me
where l was going, and told them to
George Mathews / went on by them
about ten steps down the lane and
Mr.. Alex. Hughes calls me and said
they wanted to speak to me. | told them
all right, | would talk to them from
on the inside of the fence. About
that time Mr.. Alex. Hughes came up
to the fence and said: II want to
know something about Miss Della
Whitehand, she ran off last night"
| asked him what he came to me about
her for, l did not know anything
about her. He said "Let's take him,
bows, he is the one" broke and
ran about 100 yards across the pasture
and they ran around the pasture. and
/ got mad and came on back and then
they arrested me. Alexander Hughes
took hold of me, and asked him what
they were going to do with me, and
they said they were not going to hurt
me, and l said all right, l will go any
where with you. They took me over
to Mrs. Whitehand's and kept me
there all day, and when they brought
Miss Della out of the field she told
them that did not take her off, and
had nothing to do with it, and that
she was going again.
his
JESSE X JEFFERSON.
mark.
Attest: J. CALHOUN.
After making the statement Jeffer-
f,,rthAr in ot