The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-07-12

ers, the dead station agent. On January
81 last the witness saw Jet1eris in the
Oakland City Prison. Detective Burke
and the witness took charge of Je1feris
and brought him to this city on war
rant charging him with numbering
Miss Ayers. Upon arrival here Jetferis
was taken to the District Attor-
ney's Office to make a statement.
It was at Jeferis' own request
that they went 10 the District Attorney
Office. He said he had done nothing
wrong, and was not afraid to talk. In that
statement Jetleris denied that he had
married two women. His only marriage
was with Nellie Eby. They were mar
| ried in Sacramento, he said, by the Rev.
q. l.. Frost. His wife and two children
resided IN Oakland at the time of the ar
rest. In reference to Miss Ayres, Jefferis
IN his statement denied positively that he
was married to Miss Ayres. He said he
knew her very well, having been init
mately acquainted with her for twelve
years. He had had money transactions
with her, and on one occasion she
wanted him to run away with her. He
also denied that he had ever procured q
marriage license to wed Miss Ayres, and
declared that ii his name was used it was
Matchmaking scheme.
On oss-examination True said he had
no l6S44liS against JGuGTlS Whatever. lie
denied that he had been oYer-Zealous in
securing witnesses for the prosecution.
lie also denied that he was keeping a
witness named Starkey in his position
because he expected him to give inn
portant testimony against Je1eris.
Neither did he give witness Ahern money
for his evidence. He had given money
to him for food, but it was not as an in
Gucement to testify.
MIR. Hart wanted tn lyY1o7- if tbn v1-itrass
had not instructed the witnesses Ahern
and Starkey 10 keep away from Jeheris'
attorney, and Mr.. True said he might
have done SO. This caused the attorney
to grow sarcastic, and he gave the wit
ness gentle roasting" which True re-
turned in kind. In answer to further
questions True said he was not on init
mate terms with Miss Ayers himself.
lie only saw her once or twice in Sacra-
mento and several times at Brighton.
lie was sure he had not had five minutes
conversation with her in his life. The
witness remembered a conversation he
and Coroner Clark had with Jeiferis
after the burning of Brighton station.
in that conversation Clark told Jefferis
that Miss Ayers had been known to say
that she had license TO marry Jefferis.
The defendant denied all knowledge of
the matter.
Mr.. True denied that he and Dick May
were out 10 Brighton one dav and that he
(Irue) had his arm around Miss Ayers.
lie also denied that he went into Miss
Ayers apartments the same day and put
his arm around her again. The witness
did not remember whether or not he and
Detective Burke took Jetferis to Superin-
tendent Wright's office before taking him
to the District Attorneys Office, on the
night he was brought up from Oakland.
Jeileris' statement in the District Attor-
ney's Office was voluntary one and the
defendant told in detail all OF his doings
on the day OF the death OF Miss Ayers.
on redirect examination Mr.. True pro-
duced ring which ne said Jciieris had
identified as one which had belonged to
Miss Ayers. 1t appeared that the ring
had been taken from some tramps at La
trobe, when it was supposed that they
had killed the lady.
The ohense objected to the introduction
of the ring, and Attorney Jones explained
that he proposed to snow that the ring
was not Miss Ayers at all, and that ! ct
ferris identified II simply to throw the OIL
GERS OIL his track. The court would not
admit the evidence, however, on the
ground that it was not relevant in the
bigamy case.
ARRESTED JEFFERIS.
T. a. Downey, detective from Oak
land was the next witness. He and De-
tective Hickey arrested Je1teris at the
latter's home in Oakland. Jetferis said
he had been expecting to be arrested, as
the Sacramento papers had said he was
married to the Ayers woman. He de-
clared that he could prove that he was not
married to her, and that the whole thing
was a matchmaking scheme. Jeh6ris
told the witness that he had been living
at the Arcade House in Sacramento, but
had moved to the Orleans because
the Ayers woman had been bothering
him.
Frank II. Killdu1f, Deputy County
Clerk of San Francisco, produced the
marriage-license book of that county;
and then eX-Deputy Danforth took the
stand and turned to a page WhereOn was
the affidavit of George b. Jefferis. upon
which was issued TO him license to wed
Clara Q. Ayers. In the affidavit Jeferis'
residence is given as 9l2 Ii street, Sacra-
mento, and the lady's as Plattsmouth,
Alaska.
District Attorney Ryan then produced
the marriage license which was issued on
the affidavit, and Mr.. Danforth identified
it. He could not remember what the
man looked like who procured the IL
ceuse. He had issued 1900 licenses in
four years, and could not remember the
people who applied for them.
Special Officer William Il. Hickey of
the Southern Pacific Company was called,
and told about the arrest Of Jefferis by
himself and Detective Downey, at Oak
land. While at Jeff'eris' house, he said
the defendant showed him some letters
which he said he had received from Miss
Ayers. The witness identified the pho
tograph of Jefferis, which is in evidence.
He said he got it in Oakland. Mrs. JEFF
eris told him where to get the picture.
This picture shows Jefferis with beard.
Continuing Hickey said that Jefleris
told him that the Ayers woman had been
prosecuting him.
w. c. Fletcher, an Oakland barber,
testified that he had known Jeiferis for
twelve years. In July, 1892, he said, the
defendant wore full beard. Ii was dur
ing that month that the witness shaved
oil Je1eris' beard. He could not remem-
Der the date, but knew the giant powder
works blew up.
Attorney Hart cross-examned the wit
ness rigidly, but could not shake his
testimony.
The court then took an adjournment
until 1918 o'clock this morning.
Valuable Remedy.
Hon Fdmund r, Pitts tbn Lotto Dror;