The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-01-29
MUsGRAvE KICKS
OFFENDING CAMERA
Doesn't Want Notoriety;
Prisoner Showed Desire
to Come Back.


Roswell, N. NJ, January.-George
Musgrave, aDw a man Of twenty nine
years, over six feet tall, broad should.
cred aud handsome, still has many
friends in eastern New Mexico al.
though he has come back TO the haunts
Of thirteen years ago to face trial on
m less q charge than that Of numbering
q fellow man. Musgrave, who is now
held here, pending trial for the klling
Of George Parker on October 10, 1895,
has been visited by many Of his old
friends. His dereanor aud his evident
desire to make amends for whatever Is
blameworthy in his past life has made
a most favorable impression and there
are many who are inclined 10 listen to
his story that he was not at fault in
the killing Of George Parker.
Musgrave is not after notoricty. This
he showed while in the care of sheriff
Charlie Ballard, waiting in the Union
Station at Denver for a train south. A
reporter with a kodak had been trying
hard to get a picture OF the prisoner
Finally he got his machine directly in
front Of Musgrave when the latter
with a well aimed kick smashed the
camera into a hundred pieces.
The prisoner showed no disposition
TO hang back whom arrested. lie told
the sheriff he was more than willing
20 eomo back aud stand trial and
made nc fuss about requisition papers
or any trouble at all, IN fact. lie
attributes his capture TO a remark he
made while living up in Colorado
when he told a friend he intended 10
10 down TO Roswell some day and be
tried for an old offense.
The ease in many respects is an in
teresting one. The alleged murder
was committed by a boy OF sixteen
who is now a grown man. married and
with thirteen years of respectable liy
ing back OF him.
George Musgrave states that he vii.
be thirty years old next May. Iii,
parents live down in Texas, east Of r.
Paso. HC is not sure just whore they
are, but he thinks they live near Is
leta- He IL a member Of the Eli
lodge of Grand Junction. Colo, in gooC
standing, according to his w state
ment, but not under his old name
George M~usgrave.
The cause of his coming back I,
Roswell Ii so far back in his memoir,
that Musgrave forgets il for a tim
and then he is the same jolly fellow
that he is remembered 10 be by his oil,
acquaintance. "Well you would hardl.
believe il" he said, ''but IL is actual.
n pleasure to me to come back and Sc
the men I knew years ago, and tai
with others who were here in thos
days" This remark followed the meet
ing with several old timers, who cam
up and shook hands and expressed to
him their good feeling.
Touching on the moral side Of his nj
ture, Musgrave talks like a man VIII
is doing his best 20 make amends 10
any misdoings he may have committe
when a boy. "What little educatio
I have, I have picked up since leavin
New Mexico and In the business world,
he said. "For years | have never cal
ried a hrearm or weapon Of any kind
/ have been living a square homes
life and dealing honestly with all met
In strictly commercial work. The state
ment that | had been arrested here b,
fore my trouble with Parker is a mi
take. | was never arrested nor in ia
until at this time. | always felt tina
sometime | would want this charg
against me cleared up, IL possible, bu
its coming has been a shock to me o
account Of my wife"