Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-10
IS NOT WANTED.
No Warrant for George
Musgrave.
George Massagee is in Jail
Here.
The Gang Had Fortified Caves at
Tucumcari and Endee.
MARSHAL F0RaKeR's STORY.

How such stories ever got started
as have been printed about the arrest
OF Massagee and about MusgrNve, |
can not see. said United States Mar
shal Foraker this morning. Mr.. For
aker and Postofiice Inspector G. l..
Doran came in yesterday, bringing
Massagee to this city.
This man Massagee was one of the
gang that terrorized eastern New Mex
ico." continued Mr.. Foraker "and so
were Wit Neil. }. Cook and Joe Rob-
ertson who were arrested in Arizona
hut the leader of the gang was Henry
Hawkins. George Musgrave was not
the leader, was not member. was not
bandit and we don't want him. He
has not been in New Mexico in six
years. I'll stake a thousand dollars
on that How the stories started. un-
less 1t was from El Paso don't know.
Doran could not have told it for he was
with me. Then too, the man was in
Jail month before we knew who no
was and there was no working up the
case The Fort Sumner robbery was
on January 81 and Massagee was ar
rested for horse stealing on February
and has been in jail since.
George Musgrave is not wanted. He
ana a man named Parker were in
partnership some eight years ago in
cattle stealing. They had brand of
their own and stole calves. It got hot
for them and Parker suggested to Mus
grave that as he was foot loose. he
skip out. Parker agreed to buy his IN
terest and pay the money to Mus
graves mother. Then when the storm
broke, all blame was to be put on Mus
grave. Musgrave agreed and the
scheme was carried out except that
Parker did not pay the money to
Musgrave's mother, but put 1t in his
pocket. Musgrave heard of 1t and sent
word to Parker to pay his mother or
he would kill him. Parker told him he
would not and one day Musgrave went
over to where he was with about twen-
ty-fve cattle men. He walked up to
Parker and with his left hand he shook
Parker's right hand, at the same time
shooting and killing Parker with his
right hand. No attempt was made to
hold or arrest Musgrave and everyone
said Parker got just what he deserved.
Musgrave skipped out and has not
been back since. He has had nothing
to do with this affair. Masegee's con-
fession was complete. That gang
started from near Tucumcari. On top
of the big mesa that runs out by the
mountain there, the gang had a cave
which they called Camp No. l and
which was so fortified that they could
have held off regiment. They had
another cave near Endee which they
called Camp No. 2. There have been
no other arrests. know l was not re-
sponsible for the many wild stories
which have been sent out, | am sure
Doran was not and they must have
originated in Ell Paso,"
When first arrested Masegee gave
the name of George Riley and was ar
rested by Ramon Cluquito, an Apache
Indian, 70 having in his possession
horse belonging to the Indians. Riley,
whose true name he admits Is Masse-
gee was taken to Alamogordo, had
preliminary examination before JUS
tice Phillips and was bound over to
await the action of the grand jury.
When arrested Massegee had in his
possession a rife, siX-shooter. and
more than two hundred cartridges.
G. w. Foor and w. M. Elliott of
Fort Sumner, positively identified Mas
segee as the man who killed Felipe
Beaubin in the Pecos Mercantile COM
pany's store on the night the postoffice
was held up. They also stated that
the guns and ammunition found in his
possession had been stolen from the
store. recognizing the company
marks on the article.
When confronted with undisput-
able evidence of his guilt Massegee
weakened, finally admitted his iden-
tity and told the story OF the crime,
duplicating seven others.
Wednesday the prisones was taken
before Commissioner Shepherd. plead
guilty and was bound over to the
grand jury without bond
George Riley Massegee is a young
man about 19 years of age, and says
his home is in Texas. He is a bright,
intelligent fellow of prepossessing ap-
pearance and tells a straightforward
story, He apparently does not realize
the position he is in and has been in
correspondence with relatives and
showed Marshal Foraker a letter re-
ceived the other day from his sweet
heart in Oklahoma.
The confession of Mesegee is com
plete history of the outlaws from the
time they held up the postoffice at Re-
vuelto on December 23 Tin which sew
eral citizens were also relieved of
valuables) up to a week following the
robbery OF the postofice and Pecos
Mercantile companys store at Fort
! Sumner on January 27. II borders on