Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-16

never buy a railroad ticket when rid
traced; l came west under instructions
where to go, and went to Tucson, Ar1-
zona, n then to California. / Travelled
from place to place in California under
instructions to keep Williams and Tate
advised of where / was every two or
three weeks, and write to the different
postoffices which had been agreed up
on; and was informed that when the
| thing was ripe, they would advise me
where to go. When l was at Tucson in
1896, / was instructed to come to Albu-
querque, New Mexico, and meet Form
| off, Moore, and Motsenbecker, whom /
was to be done; that these parties were
instructed by Williams and Catron. 1
never saw either of them before. l
came from Tucson to Ell Paso and from
there went to Albuquerque, stopping at
two little towns between there and Ell
Paso, and was instructed to sell some
of "Schultz's hair forcer" along the
route, so that l would become known.
I had little hand bills struck under their
instructions. I wrote the copy to be
printed and Tate dictated it. l took
the "Forcer" with me from Missouri,
and was told not to sell any until in
structed. 1 was afterwards instructed
to sell it along the route from Ell Paso
to Albuquerque. 1 arrived there the
night before New Years and met Form
off. l did not know where to find him,
but inquired for him and found him;
he told me that night that he would see
me the mex day, which was New Years,
and tell me all about the manage
ment. We did meet the next day and
he explained the plans to me, and in the
evening, he, Mr.. Motsenbecker and Mr..
Moore and myself talked over the whole
plan. / sold some of these boxes in AL
buquerque under our arrangement and
sold other things so as to establish my
reputation as a peddler. In these talks
with these three men above named, it
was definitely arranged that l should
be sent to the penitentiary for the pur-
pose of killing the men that I have
heretofore named by the use of poison.
These three parties and Mr.. Catron al
so informed mi of this plan, and the
plan was to send me poison to the pen
i%tentiary, Mr.. Fornoff and Mr.. Motsen-
becker agreeing to send me poison, and
it was explained to me that l could as
certain from the cooks when these par
ties that We're to be killed would visit
the penitentiary and dine there, and
then I was to poison the food and in
that way kill them; and it was further
explained to me that the persons watch
ing these same parties, one Clarence
P. Goodwin at Albuquerque, and one
Meyers at Las Vegas, and those of
them that l could not kill those other
parties were to watch and kill by
wrecking trains in which they were
travelling, or otherwise; il the train
were to be wrecked by dynamite, it was
to be done by George Watson who then
resided at CRANKY, and possibly resides
there yet; he was to be assisted by j.
W. and Frank Wilson and Samuel
Stansberry, a blacksmith of C%orsicana,
Mo-: he made the drills with which the
safe at the postoffice at Waddel, Mo-,
was blown open One bottle and seven
or eight packages and four or five bones
and one horn of strychnine have been
sent me in the penitentiary since the
time we were planting vegetables here
at the penitentiary in the spring or ear
ly summer of this year; that this poi
son was brought in through one of the
guards named Burns, whom I recog-
nize as n Of the gang on account Of
him being able to give the password of
| the gang which is "9669;" he told me he
had been sent here by Mr.. Fornoff and
Catron, and that they had informed
came to me at n time near the lime
kiln and talked to me about Fornoff
and Catron, and also of Williams and
Tate. He said he wished to be sure of
my number, as he did not want to talk
to the wrong man. Burns also talks to
me by a kind of deaf and dumb signs on
n hand. I was taught these signs. by
Mr.. Fornoff in Albuquerque before I
was sent to the ~penitentitary. My pre-
liminary hearing was postponed for sew
eral days while Fornoff was instructing
me how to talk on my hand. The guard,
Burns, talks to me in that way, and I
understand when and where to find
these packages of poison in that way,
as the guard drops them on the ground
in different places. l met Mr.. Catron
once in Albuquerque, out some distance
from town near a creek or ditch. and I
talked with him M he with me fully
about the killing of these men. / saw
Fornoff and talked with him at the
same time, but a different place. Cat
ron told me On that occasion that ''he
did not want me to make an ass of my
self as the Borrego boys had done, so
1t would cost him more to get out Of it |
than 1t did to do the job" / had two
men secreted near the spot who heard |
this conversation between us. One was
a nan named Parker and the other
Jones. I employed these men to come
out here and paid their to
come out here n help in this matter.
and promised to pay them more. they
were travelling and selling goods in
Kansas, but were not drummers. T.
don't know positively where they are
now, but they agreed to be somewhere
near Phoenix, Arizona, when l got out,
and l believe they will substantiate
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