Mr. Williams says that when Witcher shot into the church on present
Bell Avenue, or about it, T. J. Moss was the one who shot the Old Man
Witcher with a five shooter in the jaw. It had also been said the old man
wasn’t in the party. He said that Grandma Pierson was in the church at
the time. That in those days they usually carried on a good deal at church
with shouting and so on. Witcher was killed in 1873 he thought (correct)
and Adamson, the lawyer, was killed in 1874.
He said he got mixed on dates. (I think he was the most accurate on
dates that I ever knew). When he went out west after his brother Hal was
killed, Sheriff
Massie deputized him. But he feels like that was in 1891, and if so
John Bird was sheriff then. Massie told him to look the prisoners over in
the jail at El Paso for one Dan Logan. They passed the prisoners in
review, but he did not see Logan.
(Mr. John Mark Williams, his brother told me their brother Hal was
killed by the Apache Kid. The story is that he was visiting Joe
Rice at his ranch in New Mexico, wandered out in the morning and was
killed.)
