The San Francisco call., 1899-02-11

refuse to consider the proposition. Turn
er. however, gave Megginson TO under
stand that he would go in and night the
matter through if he would tell MIN the
whole truth.
Megginson then took Turner in
his confidence and told him all about
the matter. Megginson then showed
Turner just what the note looked
like when it was signed by William
Murdock and what it looked ike
after it was in his hands few hours.
still with this marvellous statement
Megeinson claimed that Minnie, as ne
called her, or Mary Helen Mura6ck lock
(Which is her name), believed UP TO that
time and would always believe thdt ner
uncle had signed the note for her for $lOC,-
900. dated September 5, 1877. Still the note
presented for payment was not signed, II
is claimed by the aead Mrl, iHah IIeIc, reparding
the nofe is explained by Turner in his
explanation of how the note was forged;
Turner, after he gained the co1hdence o1I 0I
Megginson and the latter decided to tell
Turner all, listened, he says, to the fol-
lowing story of the forgery of the note:
Shortly prior to Murdock's death called the
attention of Miss Murdoch TO the 1act @ that
her uncle had promised her present some
time before. and 1 told her that If she would
take note which would draw for 500 ana
get her uncle to sign it / would then raise 1t TO
500 COO and set back the date a score or so of
wears Mary Helen Murdoch did not like the
scheme and said she would draw up a note
for the full 800 900 and ge her uncle to sign
il as she believed that if she rushed in and
asked him to sign it he would do SO without 9
500 00G and then handed it 10 me and placed
it in my pocket being afraid that the uncle
would read the note. refuse to sign it, and ruin
our plans When Miss Muraock wanted to get
the note signed l handed her the one had
drawn up for f e the h9 note e for coo In her
handwriting. She came back in a few min
utes, handed me the note and said that her
uncle had not even looked at the note. mad
signed it, and handed it back to her In fact,
she had not looked at it herself, and did not
know that it was the one L had drawn for
then took the note and excused myself. I
went away intending to ra Sc the note, and 1t
Immediately dawned upon the that ii was not
in Miss Murdock' s handwriting and she would
Immediately discover the deception. l then
ored to forge Murdock'ss signature but |
made a botch of it. In consequence l had
another blank note and traded and copied Miss
Murdock's handwriting in the body of the note
and then took Murdock's signature from the
deed referred to, which was drawn In 1880
and traced it in part and copied the rest. Next
morning 1 presented it to Minnie and subse-
quently it was assigned to me.
Sucn is the story of the forgery, and
Turner AYERS that later the note was as
signed to Megginson's brother, William,
who resides in Ohio; Turner, after ne s. Sc
proposition of entering into the scheme,
and when L. S. Megginson found this out
he Immediately lost heart and retrans-
ferred the note to Mary Helen. Then the
safest way out of the difficulty and to
close Turner'S lips was to have him ar
rested. Turner says; and this Megginson,
aided by one ]. P. Frenna, did.
Through all these years Frenna and
Megginson have done their best to obtain
a conviction that would stick against
Turner but without avail.
Now Turner, who claims that the whole
thing was a blackmail scheme for the
purpose of beating him out of large
amount of property and covering up the
forgery is going to start in on the same
two parties and show up the other side
of the case. He claims that every word
of the testimony given by both Frenna
and Megginson was false and perjured
testimony. which he says he can prove in
the courts. He is going to show his full
hand, which he says will astonish the Cit
izens of the entire State. He promises
revelations that will put him in a differ
ent light and make Megginson and Frenna
stir themselves to show that they are not
guilty of sundry and startling crimes.
With certain documentary evidence and
the testimony of Turner, Attorney E. S.
Pillsbury is confident in his position and
believes that when the case is finally de-
termined he will have secured a Judgment
branding the note the handiwork of
schemers. whose greed for gold led them
to overstep themselves and fall when
their claim was met in court of justice.