Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-06-22
HIDE THE FORGERY
Of these records behind trumphed up Maxicop hurEo-

or these records behind a trumphed up | Mexican barber.
 | He st7Jed that he gave the barber a 8 <old piece aud remembered that he 'tarted him after the Ct rtIhcstes on Sat- lrday evening, and that he received the certllc .teS on Monday morning. He | didn't know either Father Stockmap or Father OReIlly; had never seen them in aIs life; yet gave as aD excuse for not go 'Jg personally after the certificates his ! fear of them.
 When questioned ss to i', he said he mt his wife firss on the train between Sacramento and Ssn Francisco. in 1877 1T 1878, anyway the year President Hayes visited Sacramento.
 "How came you to be attracted to herr"
 "Be cause she was a Spanish beauty 1 and l was young man." At that time on the train hs said she told him her name was Sofia Tread we'll, and that she interested him by telling m that her first Dsme was "Massa," {" out that he was going under the assum- ed name of Sofia Tread He thought at Lte time It must have been mistake, and he afterwards learn -O tUdI uo hd5 anu LudI eQo " aS "MasO," as he thought. He entered into the marriage contract with her ID 1882, and that marriage con-
 ract was ratified and they were married m Spain in 1883 S4, but, from the time they entered iUtD the marriage contract uD to the ratification of it in Spain, be kept the matter secret and allowed po- pOdy to know 1t, and always passed as her guardian.
 Rturning to the incident on the trair. he ga q that at the time sbe told hlm her birth rlace was in Mendociuo county, CsliforrIa, ard thst It was ID some val ey, but she could not state any more. hen. being questioned further, he stat Ad that all the developments relative to this woman bel heiress to this tract of land. he kept strictly to himself, not divulging 1t even to bis intimate friends until after his return from Spain in 1881.
 WANTED TO BRING IT TO HEAD. At thIs point he WITS questioned by | M,. R, ynolds as to whetGer he had not ! taken out license to marry another | soman ID southern California about the same time be entered into this secret marriage contract with his present | wife?
 He promptly answered, "I had" | Thereupon MT. Reynolds quickly asked, What was the purpose of taking out thls license?'
 | He replied, with 8 smile on his face ''Iu was to run 'bluff,'" adding that be had been engaged to this woman (ths | California womHn) and he "wREte tC brIng the thing to head"
 The affidavit made by Alfred E. Sher- wood as to the genealogy of thIs witness wife was next called up. The witness was asked whether CT not he had ''hypnot zed" Alfred E. Sherwood in order to get the affidavit out of him. He replied he had not, but ID what con ecti D, he might say that l he was smbZsd at the abilIty of the United States sttorney to get so much out of hlm, while be could get so little
 He acknowledged that he used pho tograph of 'Maso," which he eaid he had procured at Csdiz, in Spain, with Sherwood, in securing the affidavit from him, and that he tod Sherwood that hs had sen the will in Span, where she was mentioned as being the heir to thi; property; that 1t was within hIs power to help the gifl along by making the affidavit, and that 1t would not hur anybody He further ackI owled that bG thAr wrote the affidavit, and Sherwood stood beside bim.
 Mir Key polds then tried to get him tG state whether be had told Sherwood o hls havrng the Willing deed, which pur
 ported to convey thIs same property tC him, but the witness could not ststt
 whether be had or not, could not re mem Der, and, being pressed about thi
 Willing deed, the confession was tinall! dragged out of hum that be did DO have much faith ID this deed, believed
 all the time that it was a forgery.
 DENIED OFFERING TO KEEP JOHNSON
 IN OFFICE.
 Mir. Reynolds: Ibid you write tn, surveyor general of Arizona lette
 prior to your going to Spain with re
 ference to his making a report on you
 grant?"
 II wrote the surveyor general severs
 letters Def re leaving for Spain in th
 fall of 1885,"
 Then little later MT Reynolds ask ed: "Will you say you did not writ
 Johnson a letter ID 1885, iD which yo1 stated substantially, that if he woul
 make a favorable report you would SC that he was retained ip office." "I will not say so; 1 deny it emphat cally, unless be can produce the letter. "DId you or did you not write such 2 letter to Johnson in 1SS5?'' U '1 deny it emphHtIcallv, and requir . he production of any such offer If tt us.'