The copper era., 1902-11-27

that ChacOn had confessed to him Of having killed fifteen Americans and thirty-seven Mexicans.
 Statement Of Augustine Chacon on the scaffold in the jail enclosure, at SolomonviIle at 12:5O p. III. Novem Der 2lst, 1902, as interpreted by Nick Van Alystine.
 have much to say tasks for cup Of coffee) l desire to speak to all classes of people. l only have three enemies in this country. The names of those three enemies that l think 1 have in this country are,-one Regino Chav- aria,-the other is Dr. Davis and the other is a Mexican, which l have for gotten his name. He lives at Morenci with a Mexican woman by the name of Zenovia. It is there three men who have caused my death. Not because l am guilty of what they accuse me of. ] My con science is clean. They have tried { to give it to me and have succeeded in doing so. They used the law to bring me up to the scatfold where 1 am going now to hang. 1 do not have anything to say against the law. God would help Us if there was no law, for that reason 1 say to all of you to be careful and take warning, and have nothing to | be guilty of and not have to suKer. l have nothing to say against the rela- | tives Of Mir. Pablo Salcido. l do not even have anything against his wife | Louisa. 1 do not want any of you to believe that 1 am guilty of the crime. 1 would not have done It for anything. | There are many people here who pre- tend to know what they are talking about, but they do not know. In re- gard to my escape form the Solomon vile jail i've years ago, l want to say | that Joe Reaves and George Buckner are entirely innocent. They would not let me say or do anything that was not so. 1 wish that God will punish me if I am telling d lie. If 1 am guilty l wish to be expelled from His presence like mother Eve was from | Paradise. carry my conscience clean and bright. I did not do it but l expect to pay for this crime, because a good many people are in the habit of saying good many things that are not true as Mir. Chavaria did. He is the one who ought to be hanged in my stead and for that which 1 am going to be hanged for today. That man did not know what he was doing because | Nobody can be more satisfied of this than I am myself. 1 have a clean con-
 
 (raising his right hand) has never been guilty of committing murder. may have stolen and done good many other things, but am innocent of this crime, from my own knowledge. want you all to know that my con science is clean, and never believe that 1 have been guilty of this crime.
 l have nothing to say against MT. | Wiley Jones, nor nothing to say against i'm Parks or any other of1i- cial. All that 1 wish is for you to think | that l never committed this crime. If all of you are not satisfied and be- | lieve l am guilty, I wish that you would tell it to me. Asks for cigar cite papers and rolls cigarette and smOkes.)
 It is nothing but right that when one is going to die that he be given ;l few moments of time to quietly smoke d cigarette.
 1 have been told by several people that have been in this country since got away from here. l was here four years ago myself with another party. That party is now dead. 1 was here for the purpose of knowing how my | business was getting on and to hear what was being said about me. That is when I came here l did not cone here to do any wrong or harm any body. | 1 have been told that 1 have been here since, at different places and at differ ent times, with a band of twenty men and that 1 have been seen here and there with a band of twenty men. This is not so. At the time 1 heard this report 1 was a long distance from here. l wis brought here by party who told me lie. This man went to | NaanSati (Snpnpal p1 fg come from there. From tAere we came to near the line,-within nine miles. There l was delivered to the chief of the Arizona rangers. I have been told since that the man who gave me up is in jail at Tombs tone. He is said to be in jail and will be dealt with ac- cordiug to law. I could say good many things against that party, but will not do so. God will deal with him. l do not wish to see any body in trouble on my account. l would rather see them out from their troubles than in jail. I wish that God will give him his liberty so that he may not suffer as 1 have suffered myself, II 1 am go- ing to suffer death on his account, 1 wish God to forgive him. I have done lots of fayors to get him away from the officers of this country.
 l went to the Yaqui river and en- listed as d soldier at the time the sol diers (Mexicanl were there. 1 was there as soldier, and the soldier quarters were most as bad as it was in jail. l asked permission to go out to meet him as 1 knew that he was near the place at which I was stationed and he sent word that he wished to see me, but I was not allowed to go and he icame to see me. 1 asked him what he was doing, and he told me what he had done and that he was trying to hide away from the officers of the United States. ! did not believe his state ment. He asked me to travel with him in his company, and my answer to him was that I could not because did rot wish tO TO tnrn fo the Tinted Statas