Amador ledger., 1905-07-14

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year. Love is not his true name.
His trne name is Swearingen, and he
came from Indian Territory. He and
Clarence Murphy had worked to-
gether in cutting wood about the
Williams ranch. Both knew young
Maker we'll, and also Mrs. Williams,
and her circumstances.
Sheriff Norman in his shrewed way
of hunting up the facts-and it may
be here said that to our sheriff almost
exclusively is due the credit of get
ting to the bottom of the matter
found out certain things ABOUT Love,
and he started to find him and inter
view him. he met him on the Muir
ply place. He was driving a team
out in the field. He started to put
up his team in the barn, and in the
manger or stall occupied by his team
the package of letters and photo
graphs taken from the Williams home
was discovered. They had seemingly
been hur1iedly secreted.
From the action of Love from the
outset the sheriff concluded that he
was at last on the right track, and
followed with sleepless tenaclty and
energy, until all was dragged into
daylight. The two photographs of
CarrieWilIiams had been mutilated at
the bottom. Some writing had been
obliterated or covered over. 1t is
thought that this writing was in the
handwriting of the murdered woman,
Mrs. Williams. There we're other writ
ings in the same hand on the arti-
cles. The Murphys- and there are
several of them. comprising two fami-
lies in the neighborhood of Clements,
we're inclined to make Love the
scapegoat of the whole thing. And
this came to the knowledge of Love,
and undoubtly had much to do with
the clear breast he has now made of
it.
The story of the finding of bloody
shirt, as giving from the Record, by
Murphy, is said to be incorrect, also
the finding of the body of Chester
Maker by the dog, is beyond the
truth. Sheriff Norman say that the
action of the dog led him to believe
that his keen scent had detected
something unusual, and he watched
the animal, and followed his leading.
The dog went in the direction of an
oasis in the mass of debris from min
ing, where some tall grass stood, and
here the body of Maker was found.
As to the bloody garment, report
is current that pants with blood
marks in the pockets, which might
have been made by placing the
bloody knife therein are in the
possession of the officers.
Love says that Chester Maker was
killed first. He had been summoned
home by the ringing of the bell by
his grandmother. The murders had
been planned beforehand, and the
two men did not show up at the
doomed residence until long after the
hour that Chester was called home.
The officers will not state the devices
resorted to to get Chester from home.
He was enticed away perhaps on
fishing excursion by moonlight.
Whether the murderers wanted to get
information as to the whereabouts of
Mrs. Williams money we are unable
to say. He says that he and Clarence
Murphy were the only ones concern
ed in the crime. Maker was murder
ed after midnight, and both murders
are alleged to have been committed
between one and two O'Clock Monday
morning, June Il. After disposing
of the boy they returned to the Will
liams house and murdered the grand
mother. How she came to be dressed,
except shoes and overdress at such
an hour is not explained; but is
probably all explained in the confes-
sion. The meeting of the man by
Mrs. Arthur Adams below Lancha
Plana at 30 is also somewhat out of
joint with the version here given.
The hours do not correspond. He
was apparently going away from
Lancha, and crossing the pipe line
toward Clements. But according to
the confession the murders were not
committed until long after that hour.
On Sunday last sheriff Norman and
deputy sheriff Fl. E. Kay took Love
over the scene of the crimes, for the
purpose of verifying the confession.
And the manner in which he explain
ed everything, the route they travel
to and from the scenes of murder
satisfied the officers that he was tell
ing the truth. They did not get
through with this work until Mon
day. There can be no doubt that the
whole thing is in process of unravel
ment. Murphy, in spite of this state
ment by his confederate in crime,
still stoutly protest his innocence.
Lee Maker the father of the mur-
dered boy was in jackson, Tuesday,
also Mrs. Yoak sister of Lee Maker,
and her husband A. oak, on matters
relating to the new development in
the case.
Both the prisoners belong to San
joaquin county. While we'll known
on the Amador side of the river,
and having relatives around Lancha,