Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-09-02
THEIR CONFESSIONS
RETolD IN COURT
Evidence All Direct. Signed State
ments Not Being Produced.
They Are Held Without Bond.
State Expects Early
Conviction.

Boulder. Colo. Sept. al. w.
Reeves and Frank Kiser, charged
with the murder of l. o. Wilson, W.
l.. Weeks and Ray LaFevre, VINO
were killed as the result of the hre
and explosion at the G. and S. freight
depot i'm Boulder August 10, have
been bound over for trial to the dis
trict court without bail. The next
term of the district court will be held
during October.
A large number of witnesses were
put on the stand by the state to prove
the fire, explosion and corpus delic-
ii. At the conclusion of the state s
testimony the attorneys for the de-
Tense moved that the matter of bind
ing the defendants over be held In
abeyance for three weeks, on the
ground that the testimony intro
duced against them was entirely In
sufficient, and that no conviction
could be secured upon it. Justice
Holiday overruled the motion.
The signed confession of both Rec
yes and Kiser was not introduced,
but the gist of its contents was testi-
fed to by Deputy Sheriff S. ID. Clark
who induced the men to confess sep
arately Clark stated that neither
Reeves nor Kiser knew the other had
confessed, and that both men were
bluntly told that If they did confess
the fact would be used against them
at their trial. Witness declared that
no reward or immunity from prose-
cution i'm any way, shape or form was
offered either defendant.
The Confessions.
The confessions in substance were
as follows: Reeves and Kiser had
gone to Burgers saloon on the night
of August 10 and purchased several
drinks. From Burgers place they
went to Eck's saloon, where more
drinks were bought and where they
discussed burning out the scabs en-
ployed by the c. and s. who were
supposed to be sleeping in a caboose
in the railroad yards.
The men then went to the corner
of Twelfth and Pearl, where Wood
ward and Jendill left them. Reeves
and Kiser went to the room of Harry
Pool, at the corner of Twelfth and
Spruce, and urged him to get up and
dress and go out somewhere so he
could prove an alibi. The two men
then went to Twelfth street and Rail-
way avenue, where they took waste
from the journals OF a caboose and
which they set fire to it. Both men
ignited matches for this purpose. At
ter seeing that the caboose was
burning, the men went to the freight
depot and walked on the platform
until they found an empty car.
Forced the Fire.
Reeves jumped to the ground be-
tween the platform and the car and
removed oiled waste from the car
journals and threw it inside the car
jumping inside to light 1t, after
which he threw infiammable rubbish
on the fire to force matters. KiseI
stood near at hand watching the per
formance. The men then went tC
Ninth street and crossed the Ninth
street bridge to the Crystal Springs
brewery, where they met Night En-
gineer simmons. They washed grease
and CRIME from their hands anC
faces with hot water given them by
Simmons. Leaving the brewery, Rec
YES and Kiser went south to Marine
street along Marine to Sixth, north
on sixth across the bridge and to the
railway tracks and thence to the
burning depot and cars.
Harry Pool testified that he haC
advised Reeves and Kiser to "keeI
their hands off as the Colorado and
Southern strike was no affair o
theirs
Woodard testified that Jendill
when asked by Reeves and Kiser Il
he knew how to handle dynamite anC
powder, said he did. but that he die
not want anything to do with sucf
things.