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Than I dared to be he proposed to me to fix up a plan to Rob and Kill Geo Carter he said he was a man that had a great amount of money I was to go and remain a few days with Carter and and find where he kept his money and then we would go and get it he also proposed to work with John J Jordan the same way he said he was his unkle but that made no diffference he could kill and rob the damed old Miser as quick as any body else we also had made a plot to rob a store on the dry fork belonging to Bill Kitchen also a plot to rob Charley Barrett and W m Tayler on the East fork. Jim Lyns often told me that he intended to make a living without work I went to George Carter and Stayed awhile and dicovered that nothing could be done at that time in that neighborhood and concluded to get off some where ^else^ were ^where^ we were not Known so well Jim Lyons asked me
me to swear him I then swore him that the statements he was about to make should be the truth ^the whole truth^ and nothing else but the truth) ^he then proceeded^ We arrived in on the top of a high rocky hill Just above Hattons store some time in the night I could not tell we stayed untill every thing seemed still we then came down and crossed at the mouth of bear creek on a log John and I went to the house we called for Hatten a woman asked us what we wanted I spoke and asked told her we wanted a plug of tobacco She said Archer was at the store I did not understand his name
was at John M Jordans, and Bill Wright came up there and said to me that he had seen some men from the dDry fFork who wanted him to go with them and rob a store, and that he agreed to go with them, and said that he wanted me and John to go with them. I told him that I nor John would go, that I was not going to rob any man nor have anything to do with it. He then asked me to go to the top of the hill with him. That was where they were to meet John, and ^I^ went with him to the top of the hill. we there found Elijah Jackson, Joseph Spivy, and Jas. Wilburt. They all tried to get John and I to go with them, ^but^ we told them that we would not go that they might go if they wanted. John and I then went back to John Mullin's and stayed there until Saturday. On Saturday we started over to Ursula Holbrook's, and on the way we met Bill Wright. Bill owed me thirty dollars; he had some goods and I bought goods of him for the debt. I asked Bill where he got the goods. He said at the mouth of Bear Creek. John asked him if he killed the man, and Bill said yes, by ^god^ I did. I told Wright that that was a bad spot of work; that it would come out on him. Wright said he was not affraid. I here stoped him and asked him if he, Bill Wright, and John Lyons were not the men that ^who^ murdered Archer. He said that they were not. I then pulled out John Lyon's confession and read ^it^ to him, and left him. Afterwards, when he was under the gallows, he called to me and said that John Lyons had told me correctly about the Killing of Archer