The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1903-12-17

The reporter saw DIR. C. M. Yater
today and asked him for a statement
of the identity of the murdered man
found in Spring river on November
Bird. DR.. Yater said:
In yesterdays RECORD you got
the initials wrong. 1t should have
been Henry L. Jones, instead of
Henry T. Jones. l last saw Henry
alive on October %. 1903. He asked
me when I was going to start to
Texas. l told him 1 would start on
the oath. He remarked 4 am going
out to the well. but will be back in
time l eve saw him alive after
that morning. 1 returned from Tex
as on November End. and missed
Henry. l was accustomed to seeing
him nearly every day, as he came
from the same county l did. and was
a friend of mine. He stayed at my
house a great deal of the time. and
l thought nothing in particular about
his absence. thinking he had gone
home-as he had bee talking of go
ing back to Texas-until about the
middle of November. l received a
letter from Miss Lee Jones. Henry's
sister, asking me if I knew anything
of his whereabouts, as they had not
heard from him since October 18th.
At once / began to couple his alb
sence with the body found in the
river. l wanted to locate him if pos
sible to satisfy myself and his peo-
pie, and so wrote them. l got the
ring which was taken from the fin
ger of the dead a and knowing
that my children would be likely to
know Henry's ring, as they were
with him SO much. I took each child
separately and showed the ring and
asked each if they knew the ring.
Each child recognized it as Henry
Jones' ring. Then l felt SURF he was
and so told Mr.. Higgins,
who at once went to work on the
case.
His sister wrote a description of
teeth which upon examination
very well with the dead mans
About this time Higgins was
called to Santa Fe when Mr.. PLANT,
Judge Peacock and myself contin-
ued to look, up what we could as TO
the Identity. Mr.. PLANT found a hat
with the crown torn out which was
positively identified as Henry's. Also
a place by the side of the old adobe
in which Henry used to sleep
at times was found where a rock
had been removed. Mr.. PLANT took
the rock that was tied to the dead
man and it fitted exactly the place
by the house where one was miss
ing.
About this time w. A. Stewart ar
rived from Cleburne, Texas, having
been sent here by Henry's mother
to work out the case. He. Mr. PLANT
and myself dragged the river and
found a quilt with blood on it which
quilt has been positively identified
one belonging to Henry Jones.
also foud in the river a pair Of
pants with a handkerchief in the
pocket, with his initials Oh. L. j
it. The pants have been positive
1y Identified as belonging to Henry
Jones. When we reached this point
in the case l was positive that Hen
ry Jones was the dead man. and as
that was all I was after finding out
I ceased work on the case.
All this time I had no suspicion
ms to who did the terrible deed. The
is now in the hands of OFF,
GERS of the law. and / am ure not
q stone will be left unturned to bring
the guilty party or parties to speedy
81 sincerely hope that no innocent
man will have to suffer for this crime
but that the guilty may be apprehen-
ded and put where the dogs cannot
at him."
This is all I know about it. ! am
now out. leaving the apprehension
If the criminal in the hands of the
proper authorities"
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