Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-24
Statements From the Trio of
Prisoners.
They Deny All Completely in the
Attempt.
What They Have to Say Regarding
the Matter.
Some Statements Which Do Not Exactly
Tally-A Complicated Story-Sher-
i'll Gibson's Creditable
Action.

Myer and G. Guadello of the trio of
United States prisoners now in the
county Jail, yesterday. Ricardo Con.
zales was the quiet man of the party for
the time being.
Louis Myer, who will come up for
sentence on Monday next, made gen.
eral denial of all the accusations against
him, and for some obscure reason attrib-
utes the expose made in the HERALD
yesterday to "so-called United States
detective In referring to the jail
breaking, Gonzales and Guadello were
spoken of as being cognizant of the
proposed attempt. Myer was confined
in the second tank, and may or may not
have been apprised Of it. Myer also
says the red-pepper story is an ''in-
vented lie." Myer admitted that he had
been jugged in San Francisco with
"Sleepy Jake" and Gonzales in 1885. At
that time they were arrested by Captain
Lees. He further admitted that he was
guilty of the fracture OF the law at Mer-
ced for which he was recently convicted.
He claimed that he had never met Qua
dello until he met him entirely by
chance at the hotel in Merced. In fact
he says the meeting was pure accident.
He admitted that Guadello was friend
of Gonzales, the man of many aliases,
and that he and Myer first met Gonzales
in the city OF Mexico through that per-
sons brother, who is cigar manufac-
turer in Havana, Cuba, and,was in Mex
leo purchasing tobacco. AS to Gonzales's
nrfooo1antp o1o
Further, he says that since he and Con-
'Sleepy Jake" jumped his bail,
last spring when he met him on Market
they have been together more or less.
Myers repeatedly denied knowing any
thing abou. Guadello, and the only ad.
missions he made in that direction were
that he was friend of Gonzales, and
in Los Angeles.
G. Guadello, the mysterious man of
the trio of prisoners and the one that
the officials consider to be the shrewdest
and sharpest of the lot, had written
statement prepared denying everything
contained in the HERALD article
The following is an extract from the
statement:
II am foreigner and only recent
arrival in the United States. l am no
crook, have never made living at coun-
terfeiting, but have always followed a
legitimate business, my profession being
that OF an artist. / was never arrested
before and never was in the clutches of
the law, this being my first experience,
and I will establish my innocence when
the proper time arrives. I never was in
any part of the United States barring
California. never tried to ingratiate
myself with the prison officials by paint
ing their portraits. 1t is true l have
performed work for them, but have al
ways received remuneration for any and
all portraits"
The statement above from Guadello
that he is only recent arrival in the
United States does not tally with Myers
admission that Guadello was here in
Los Angeles as an artist some years ago.
In speaking of the attempted Jail break
ing, Guadello said: "ln regard to the
attempted Jail break will say that l
had no connection with it, although l
had knowledge that such an attempt
would be made; but l, being prisoner.
and not an officer, whose duty it is to
prevent any prisoners from escaping, |
naturally kept my own counsel and said
nothing, because that was no affair of
mine. The only information l had /
received from the Crocker boys, and
from Ed Baker, now under sentence to
San Quentin for fourteen years.
II saw Ed Baker deliver the knives to
the Crocker boys, and also saw him de-
liver file, wherewith they could manu-.
facture their saws, and was told by
Baker himself that he would escape If
he saw the holes and would furnish
boat to take them to Mexico"
GuadeIlo also volunteers the informa-
tion that the red-pepper story is made
up out of whole cloth, and processes ig-
norance of any women being in attend
ance at court and being interested in his
case. Further inquiry yesterday devel-
oped the information that on Saturday
night the outside friends of the jail
breakers had a hack in waiting at the
corner of Broadway and Temple street,
and when it became known that the
attempt was frustrated the hack was
driven rapidly away. 1t was also
learned that boat had been secured at
San Pedro to transport the party to
Mexico. As to the red-pepper story
which Guadello and Meyer so strenu-
ously deny, Constable T. B. Orr of De-
lano, or Frank Benedict, deputy jailer,
can throw some light on the subject.
On December 22d Gonzales was taken
to Delano for Identification. Deputy
Marshal Marsh turned the prisoner
over to Orr with injunctions to keep him
on the main thoroughfares while here.
Soon after Marsh left. Gonzales asked
Orr to take him down to a place near
the covered bridge across the river to
East Los Angeles. This Orr declined to
do, and as a somewhat notorious charac-
ter was hanging around in a suspicious
manner he telegraphed up to the Jail for
an additional man and was joined by
Deputy Benedict. Suspecting that there
might be an assault if they went to the
Arcade depot, they proceeded to the San
Fernando depot. Deputy Marshal Marsh
went to the Arcade depot at 10 80 p. m.
and found the aforesaid notorious char
acter, and was asked by him as to the
whereabouts of Gonzales. Marsh imme-
diately took him in tow and went up to
the San Fernando depot and joined Con-
stable Orr. During the progress of the
trial recently it is alleged that
the aforesaid notorious character admit
ted to Orr that he had left the Palace
restaurant, where the officer and pris-
oner took supper on the evening in
question, to secure some red pepper,
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