Graham guardian., 1899-04-07

, greatest liberty in my work. p,
thence was required in the tasl
! and possessed that quality i
i. abundance.
"Recnrring to the work in Spai
l recall that | had stuffed th
archives in two cities-Madrid an
Seville--before / sought any cope
In other words, / always did m,
work in that line before bega,
an investigation, depending on To-
Investigations to develope th
work that had deposited in tn,
archlves. and for that reason i
TOOK me a great while to do yer,
little. l found no inconvenience,
10 any of this work from the sim
pllclty with which the officials re
celved me, as l was always on tht
outlook for curiosities to mention
IN my correspondence.
"While in Spain, and after / had
built up the lineage about my wife
conceived that it would be strong
corroboratory evidence of the
truth of my statements, if my wife
should give birth to twins, as her
mother bad done. However we
were blessed with no issue, so |
adopted pair of twins, boy and
girl. The girl died, but strange to
late, five years later my wife
g I'VE birth no as fine pair of
twins as ever iiveC
after finishing my work in
Spain | returned . this country an
stuffed the archives ofthe church
at San Bernadino, Cal, but not in
the manner the government claim.
ed Then | went 10 Mexico, and
completed my work, marrying the
hrst Baron of Arizona into a
Spanish noble family living in
Mexico.
80 eleverly did l accomplish
Cnis that l went TO the house of the
descendants of the family and
made no hesitancy in introducing
myself, taking rooms at the house
OF the most prominent of them In
6uadalaJara, from whom [ gained
much valuable information. By
adopting as a custom the carry.
ing oftwo or three blanket editions
OF our great daily papers. | was
enabled to smuggle large volumns
out and in the archives at will.
with due precaution, so there was
no need of an accomplice. | at.
tended to the regulation tips pune.
tlllously, which insured the most
obsequious attention.
After completing my work in
Mexico, took rest of some
weeks to allow the matter to sea
son, and then | made formal ap.
plIcation for a search. The Gus.
todlan found this portion of the
archives fairly g,ued together
with age, SO was completely 'offI
hls feet certifying with zeal to
all this find, which went forward
TO startIe the world and set al
naught all criticism in so much |
that my supporters declared that
the government would be compell- |
ed to confirm the grant in Supreme
Court, regardless Of what the low
2r court should would on could 90.
Thus, not tarthing for corrup-
Lion,' was the motto.
Curing all this time / never
had an accomplice. | did my work
absolutely alone, therefore there
could not possibly have existed
ground for charge of conspiracy
10 defraud the government, and all
he evidence introduced. by the
government to that end for the
purpose of conviction was false
md vicious. When / started in | |
could not speak or write Spanish.
hired public sCribes in Mexico
md Spain to do my copying.
During the latter part of our visit
n Spain my wife and myself were
in noble families. and
we're entertained lavIshly. The
public is familiar with my trial,
ind how the great men of this
country pleaded my case.
"To estimate the expenditures
IN either side of this case would
cad into difierential calculus. 1t
las been said that / expended
$3.50, 900, yet the half would strike
learer the mark, and | would not
make guess for the government,
as | do the various
venues tor Klondlking Uncle Sam
n such matters. The Assistant
District Attorney in his review be.
ore the jury at the trial upon
charge of conspiracy to defraud
he government, a simple misde-
neanor, stated that the govern
nent bad expended $4,000 to con-
'ict me, and he hoped that the
ury would consider that part and
rot disagree Yet this trial did
rot cost nae one pickel, and the
good reason was, | bad it not.
"The government said: we
this one Of the greatest
schemes to prepetrate q fraud on
he government that was ever at
.empted in this country, or poss-
bly, in any other. 1t has been car.
led on successfully for over a