The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-11-14

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son said that he was still under in
dictment for stealing gloves He ad
mitted that his testimony now varied
from his testimony before the Justict
/ court, but said that he was now tell
| ing the truth. He was then under {
charge of murder, but was not at thi:
time. When Jones and Watson lef1
the tent at the stockyards they hat
rope with them. He was unable tC
| identify the rope shown him as the
same. but said it looked like it.
Mrs. S. E. Johnson testified to hav.
ing lived on the North Hill near the
adobe. Her home was about $50 yards
from the adobe. On Sunday, October
25th, 1903, she saw two men drive
up to the adobe They had bay
horse and a single buggy and stoppe
there. She saw no one there the next
morning. Some people came there
the next Sunday, and she believed it
to be the same outfit The people who
came there the first time drove in
from the northeast She said her eye
sight was poor.
Clarence Ullery testified as to the
lifting of bodies A person dying from
accident became rigid sooner THAI
one dying from natural causes In the
first case body would become rigid
in from one-haIf to two hours. A RI
gid body could be carried much more
easily ,han limp one He could car
ry body his own weight
w. r. PLANT testified to having
gone to the stockyards to look up
the case. He had seen Jones gun in
Geaton S trunk He identified the gun
After that he and Sheriff Higgins had
gone again and had found the mat
tress there with the stains on It,
They had brought it to town Mr. Pi.
liant then identified the mattress. Gea-
ton had told him that ne thought
Jones had gone to Arizona. Another
time he and Sheriff Stewart lad gore
to the stockyards and had found a
place where something had been burn
ed and from the ashes he believed it
to be cloth.
Joseph Carper testified that Geaton
had told him that Jones had gone
away from here. This was about the
time of the last term of court last
fall
W. A Stewart of Texas gave much
the same testimony as W. R. PLANT.
He told of the visits to the stock
yards. Geaton had told him that he
thought Jones had gone to Hereford
to visit friends. He said that Jones
horse had disappeared Geaton had
further told him that he believed
Jones would come back. He had no
trouble with Jones. and Jones mad
fit and do the best he could with it,
He had not bought it. After the ar
rest of Geaton he told Stewart tha.
he had never talked about the case
with anyone except DR.. Yater He
also said that Jones was the best
friend he had.
DR.. Yater testified to having talked
with Geaton a number of times, and
Geaton had told him that Jones had
gone away.
The first witness today was man |
by the name of Davis. He had been |
employed by Geaton after the disap-
pearance of Henry Jones and had |
slept with him at the adobe house in
He testified that at this time
Geaton seemed much disturbed and
not at all easy. Geaton told him thar
the mattress on which they slept had
belonged to a man who was killed at
the stockyards.
Nora Gambrill, girl of about thir-
teen. testified that she had seen Gea-
ton burn clothing at his tent at the
and that this clothing had
spots on it, The spots looked like
blood. but might have been some-
thing else Tom Watson told ner that
the blood on the mattress came there
because Bill Geaton had cut his foot
He also told her to not turn it over
but to leave the spotted side down
She did not know what an oath was
but did know that the devil would
get her when she died if she did nos
tell the truth.
DIR. Yater testified that a blow on
the skull similar to the one on the
body of the man found in Spring riv-
er could cause profuse bleeding.
The exhibits in the case were tnen
turned over to the jury for examina-
ton. after which the prosecution res
ted its case. Court then adjourned IN.
til two o'clock this afternoon when
the defense opened.