The San Francisco call., 1898-08-18
He Killed His Uncle Tn
 Arkansas.
WAS TRIED AND ACQUITTED
MURDER OF JURY DOES NOT
 SEEM TO WORRY HIM.
The Prisoner, Who Will Set Up the Plea of self-D Defense, Tells
 of His Varied Career.

James Nathaniel Meadors, who killed 5onas Ury at Camp Barrett. could be tried convicted. sentenced to death and executed by the military authorities if they so desired, as the murder was com mitted In a military camp and the mur- derer and his victim being soldiers.
 It is usual, however, in such affairs to turn the prisoner over to the civil authori- ties and this has been done in this case. = Private George s. Fouts of Company c Ewore to a complaint in Justice of the Peace Laurence's court In East Oakland yesterday morning. charging Meadors with the murder of Ury.
 - The news of Ury's death did not seem to affect the murderer in the least, for he chatted pleasantly.
 :I am not at all worried about this mat ter he said. T have done nothing that any other man of nerve would not do un- der the same circumstances. All ask is that they push my trial along as fast as possible. for I don't want to lie in this devils hole with all nationalities.
 "On January 26, 1875, 1 got into some trouble with an uncle, F. M Moore, in Crawford County, Ark. He had come into my house drunk, and intended killing my only brother; but I killed Moore. l was tried in my county and acquitted by twelve honorable jurymen. Of course, that affair broke me all up; but don | : Intend that this Ury affair shall affect me that way. Since I left Crawford my little farm has been sold under foreclosure e, My wife and I were born and raised in : that neighborhood, and we have four chiI- M dren. 1 am stranger here. ana my means are limited; but all that l nay, nave .. Is an even break, and I'll have that II : l have to fight for 1t. l haven't an attor- f6sg BSsf and oucoe ann nGE o mg cas know that if the men who witnessed the affair will come up and tell me trutn d will be cleared. l don't want any one 70 testify to anything he can't swear to with ''i know that in the sight of man. and the creator I killed Ury in self-defense l couldn't put up any other plea
 When I left Crawford County l went :; to Arizona and tried to recover damages for the death of my son, who was killed in the mines fifteen miles north of King man, but I failed, and last April came out to California to visit my relatives at Petaluma whom l hadn't seen since I was a little boy. I found Uncle Peter : Meadors had died, and so l stayed with the family until I enlisted.
 Meadors denied that the direct cause of the stabbing was over the s he had -ts :'It was aaiI on account of a nasty mess of Ury's in our tent" said he Ury blamed it on Joe Burnett: and when he left 1t to me, I up and said you know you did it, try and he called me vile name I am not at all sorry for what l did. I would do it again. l can stand a joke as well as any man, but this Ury abused me all the time.''
 The feeling at Camp Barrett is very much against Meadors, and Company c members. feel particularly sore over the murder. as they regard the affair a dis grace to their organization. He has no sympathizers, and the evidence . against Meadors will be strong.
 : If I am convicted,' said Meadors1 In conclusion. '.and am sentenced to be exc cuted, I will take my medicine like a would to swim across the bay"