The San Francisco call., 1898-02-10
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 IS DENIED Harry A. Knox De- clares His Innocence of the Crime. Says He Did Not Tell the Prisoner to Hire a
 Team. Makes a Signed Statement De- nying Conplicity With
 Worden. RELATIVES ARE TO BLAME. Inssrity Commissioners Visit Wor- den in His Cell at
 Folsom.
Makes a Signed Statement De- nying Conplicity With
 Worden.
RELATIVES ARE TO BLAME.
Inssrity Commissioners Visit wor- den in His Cell at
 Folsom.

The first I saw of s. D. Worden on the morning of his return from Chi cago was when l met him at John Hurleys cigar store, at the corner of Seventh and J streets. He was full of whisky at the time and very loud mouthed" about what "he' was going to do. We told him he must not be talking like that, for it was very easy to get himself into trouble, but he al- ways replied, T am the grand organ izer for the Pacific Coast and l will talk and do just as 1 d-d please" and it was none of our business.
 We kept him as quiet as we could for a few days; then he said he was going down the road to Stockton to organize He was gone several days, and the first I heard anything about him was when he telephoned to me that he had forty five or fifty cattle and asked what he should do with them l supposed he did have cattle, as the farmers were donat- ing meat and vegetables for our A. K. U. restaurant 1 told him to bring them to Sacramento by boat and I would pay the charges. So that even ing when the boat was due some of the boys went to the landing to help him but he did not come. I did not hear from him until morning, about 7::3o or 8 o'clock. 1 was at breakfast at my home in Broderick when he came in and told me he had brought up an en- zine and Pullman sleeper with forty-hve or fifty men. 1 asked him if that was what he called cattle, and he laughed one of his demoniacal laughs and said "Yes" 1 told him he hadn't ought to have done what he did, and he told me I didn't know my business as well as he did While on his Stockton trip he signed my name to check on the D. 0. Mills Bank for $5 and gave 1t to hotel man, think at Gait. Of course when 1t was taken to the bank he was told had nothing there, so he brought the check to me and 1 told him 1 had never given Worden or any one else authority to sign my name in that manner, but rather than see him lose his money I would pay it. Worden was drunk when he came to my house in the morning.
 After 1 had finished breakfast Mr. Parker, Worden and myself started for Sacramento, and when we got up to the bridge Worden said a man had been shot down the river a ways and he was going down, so he went and Parker and 1 went on over town.
 Worden came up to our room some time before noon and stayed few min utes and went out again. He was still drunk That is the last time I saw him until we returned from lunch, about 30 p. m. Then we found him lying on the bed asleep with his shoes of. We got him up and he put on his shoes and said he was going to get a drink, but he hadn't been gone but a short time when he returned with a boy, saying, "Here is boy with bill. :" I looked at the bill and saw it was for team, so 1 paid it, because I had given an order to Wheeler to go to Brighton or near there to Mr. Bowles' ranch to get vegetables for our restaurant, and supposed that was where the team had been.
 When Worden says in his statement 1t was by my order the team or men went where he claims they did he tells a downright lie. He says we deserted him during his trial; that is not true. We had evidence that we wanted his brother to use, but he would not, and it appeared to me as though he did not care much whether his brother was convicted or not.
 In conclusion I wish to say that neither Worden nor any one else was ever used as a tool for the committee. and if any damage was done it was done without our knowledge or con sent. He has made several so-called confessions, but he never tried to i'm plicate the committee before, and it is my opinion that he has been made to do it now by his brother, hoping to get some one into trouble. I believe Wor- den ought to be in the asylum instead of prison.
 HARRY A. KNOX.
 This Is the answer Knox makes in