Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-05-25
BERGMAN TESTIfIES.
The Defendant Believed Garner was In
sane, But DR.. Harroun Said No.
STORY OF MISSOURI CRIMES.

Ease yesterday were occupied by Judge
LaughliD. for the defense. In reading III
affidavit by Garner, sworn TO January 10
before General Charles Y. Essley. This
was prepared after Garner had made the
original affidavit rejecting upon Messrs.
Cstron. fornoff and others. Ii WAS
taken In the presence OF Judge Laughlin
aud Colonel Bergman by u steno-
grapher, and corrected by Garner after
being typewriter.
ton OF the one submitted on the frst
day Of the hearing by District Attorney
X. c. GOrtner aud tells again the story
OF the alleged conspiracy TO kill ex Gov
ernor Thornton, District Judge McLaugh-
lin. Mayor Sloan, Colonel Bergman.
Attorney Crist and others. IL also
enumerates the crimes claimed to have
been committed by q gang in Mis-
souri, and New Mexico. According TO
this statement. which would Oil a page
OF this paper, Garner was born thirty
six years ago at CRANKY, Mo-; has tray-
eled extensively In Missouri, Kansas.
Colorado, Oregon, California, Tonnes.
see, Texas and other states, selling medi-
cines or peddling books. lie WAS mar
ried at Purdy, Mo-, over four years ago to
Belle Frazer. II was in 1891 that he be
came a member OF the gang In Newton
county, Missouri, to which he says be.
longed a man named Fritz, Of Mcdonald
county, Missouri; Samuel %Stansbury
Frank Wilson, OF Waddill, Mo-; j. "
Wilson, Of Lehigh, | T.; George Watson
Of CRANKY. Clint Cantrel, OF Grangeyille
Mo John II. Williams and j. X. Tate, Of
CRANKY; Folden Bailey, OF Wsddill; J
Meyer, OF Brunswick. Texas, and G. p
Goodwin, OF Kerryille, Texas. Accord,
ing to the statement. II was John IL
Williams and j. h. Tate who negotiated
with Garner. and to whom he paid s3,0Ot
for the privilege OF joining the gang and
sharing in its earnings. lie was TO re
ceiye the money again when he commit
ted a crime to prove his good faith
Pending such an act he took a mort
gage on 100 head OF cattle from
Fritz, he said. After he Joined tn,
gang the first job Wa holding up +,
Frisco train above Aurora, Mo. Gsrnei
feigned sickness, and did not go will
them. The gang afterwards told hin
they had attempted the hold up. but haC
become mixed with their own men, an,
had to leave II after doing a great deal o
work. After that the alleged meeting
with Hon. T. h. Cstron took place II
Newton county, Missouri. Williams toll
learner later, the witness says, that tn
gang had blown open a safe and broker
into the United States mail at Waddill
Mo. Also, that while williams and
man named Bailey were discussing
crime a little girl named Maggie Camp
bell, daughter OF a Missouri farmer, wa
caught listening TO them. They cut he
throat from ear TO ear. Witness says tina
Williams also claimed that "a postmaster
John Names. who kept money for tn
gang and Incorporated 1t, WAS lure
TO a field near Webb City, his throat Gu
and the body thrown into an ~abandone'
shaft Williams also told Garner that h
lWilliams) and Tate killed "a ranchmsl
named Jess Poor and his family on tn
ella. near Silver City, y. NJ. Poor mad
u fuss In an Indian depreciation CLAIM
which Williams had falsely entere
against the government for cattle, an,
Poor was killed and his house burne,
over his head. This happened seventeen
years ago and the blame was laid upOl
the Indians.
Garner then relates with much detail
how he managed to get employed in tn
kitchen at the penitentiary, and thus hs
"a chance to carry out the wholessl
poisoning plot. Tie tells over minutel
the strychnine story. repeating the al
legged plot brought out in Gamers state
ment submitted and published last weet
In 1897, at the ~penitentiary. Gsrne
was converted at IA Christian EndeayO
meeting. and this led him. he says, I
!, write out these confessions. He contesse
his participation in the plot. he says. I
Colonel Bergmsnn, o. L.. Merrill an
Captain j. Il Hart.
According to this statement. Gsrne
when he demonstrated against killing
-, many people, was told II was mot wort
to kill such people than II wa TO kl
dogs, and he would ran It down into Il
mob" Garner says he discovered thu
: the guard, Burns. who the witness asser'
n Struggled In several packages Of poiso
to him, was Folden Bailey, who lived
I mile from Waddill. No, and who WAS
Q be sent TO him to assist in the pOisOnin
plot. Garner was also to give "A sign
with a piece OF paper fastened to Il
outside wall to show His accOmplices TIN
: he was ready to execute the plot.
/. WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
At the hearing Of the conspiracy ca,
l, Wednesday morning there wa nOtlcesb
: /, u certain tension between the parties II
terested in the matter. There seemed
be an expectation OF startling develop
= ments that might be sprung, perhaps,
the last moment.
o. l.. Merrill wa on the stand. /
admitted that he had heard Of a traiI
y wrecking story in September, 1897, tn
Garner was telling at that time. I'll
train wrecking VAS to be done in Ne