Jasper Thomason is the slayer of A1 Potter in the Mogollons and San Francisco valley, whos
Jasper Thomason is the slayer of A1 Potter in the Mogollons and San Francisco valley, whose pardoning met with general disapproval [1][2]. Thomason was arrested and charged with murder [1][2], then convicted principally upon his own testimony [1][2]. He acknowledged that he shot Potter, an unarmed man, but claimed he thought Potter had a gun behind a tree [1][2]. Evidence showed Potter was peeling poles with his coat off and was unarmed [1][2]; the bullet struck his left chest and exited near his right hip [1][2]. Thomason was subsequently pardoned for the murder [2].
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- The pardoning of Jasper Thomason, the… (1889)The pardoning of Jasper Thomason, the slayer of A1 Potter, will meet with general dis- approval by all of the people of the Mogollons and the San Francisco valley. Thomason was convicted principally upon his ow…
- Silver City Enterprise — 1888-1890 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1889-04-19 (1889)It pleases us to state that one of the Apache murderers of Freeman T. Cosper, the freighter, is now a real good Indian and the other a prisoner. They have managed to evade the In- dian scouts until Wednes…