Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09

viii testify they saw Wilkinson arrive
! In Taos. He went to the Ferguson
| home and was met by Jack Columbus
, Ferguson, Mandy and Terecita Fergu-
son. ).
4 the Ferguson home awakened to nro
the body of George Wilkinson mud
died In the corner Of her room. He had
i been stabbed in the breast.
1.-THE girl screamed. Ferguson, Tere-
cita and Manly came into the room.
mind your own business said
Manly to the girl. The man was nc
relation of yours.
The detective says the girl repeated
her story to District Attorney String
fellow last July and asserted that a
| Mexican boy, a friend OF Terecita, de-
| parted from the Ferguson house before
J sun-up in his truck. She said he car
! ried the body to Mount Badly, 81 miles,
Martin went to Badly and found a
| skeleton. The head was gone. Martin
! found a skull near the entrance to the
| Mystic mine.
Martin asked that certain warrants
be issued. He was told there were no
funds available to prosecute the cases
after the arrests, according to his state
ment.
you asked If Manly might have
been killed by fear" the detective con-
| tinued Let me tell you something
in 1922 Jack Columbus Ferguson was
committed to an insane aSylum-hS
had been bounded by theSghost Of
George Wilkinson.
Ferguson was not the type to be
superstitious, but he was reduced to q
shadow. He said the ghost lived with
| him. He felt it and heard 1t and saw
| it all over the Ferguson house. and in
the neighboring fields He told people
| that white wrath followed him every
where. He never was the same again.
do you mean some one was DELHI
erately masquerading as ghost and
haunting Ferguson?"
"I have five witnesses who saw one
mans daughter doing just that" Mar
tin replied.
Think what you are saying! You
are implying that the woman imper-
sonated the ghost Of Wilkinson and
reduced her father to state OF in
sanity. Do you mean that?
II am saying just that, and I can
prove it. You can quote me-" Martin
replied.
did Ferguson die in the asylum"
mo, he remained in the asylum at
Las Vegas two years. Then he was
released. He died in Taos in 1925"
Touch Mandy Case.
Martin then was questioned about
the other cases Of decapitation he had
referred to. Each, he says, in some
way touched the MANLY case. Some
! of the victims have not been identified,
and the names of others Martin refused
to disclose.
81 have supplied the Department of
Justice with all my information" he
says. II think I am DEFINITELY out OF
the Mandy case, but l have nope the
Government will bring 1t to a conclu-
sion.
at presented all these facts to Attor-
ney General Otero. He told me to stick
to the Manly case and to ignore other
ramifications. September he told me
the State had no money to continue
investigations and that 1t would be nee
essary to abandon the case. No ar
rests ever were made. September z
Otero issued q statement in which he
said he had found no evidence Of MUIR
der at Taos"
was Manby's the last killing?"
mo. About two months ago woman
reported having heard strange con-
versation in the neighborhood Of the
Hines shop at a time when the Fergu-
sons lived there. She said she heard
talk of a burial several miles from here.
I went to the spot and found de-
capitated body.
"Knows Who Killed Manly"
"Three months ago two travelling
statesmen were approaching the store of
Floyd Hammond, 80 miles from here
on the Colorado road. AS they APP
preached two men left the store hur-
riedly and drove away. When the
! statesmen entered they found Hammond
lying across his desk, his neck partly
severed and bloody ak beside him.
His money belt and wallet we're gone.
do you believe these crimes are
being committed by the same persons?''