Arizona citizen., 1871-04-29
Saturday, April 29th. 1S71
The Sonora Press, &c., Again.

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 other denial of our former statements
 in regard to the two Americans who
 were detained as prisoners in La Mag
 dalena. In former issues, 1t has re- iterated the assertion, that no band of thieves exists in Sonora. To prove to the "Eco'' that such an individual as a thiet docs exist, and not only a thief but thieves, and not only thieves but bands of them-we adduce the frequent robbing of the Guaymas and Hermosillo stage. No would-be civil ized country exists that has better laws combined with such poor admin istration of them. One would imagine that when the most influential mer- chants are robbed repeatedly, that the officials of the law would make some exertion to bring the offenders to jus tice; notwithstanding that all these robberies have taken place, within ten miles of the largest town and the best regulated police, these leeches of socie- ty have stolen with impunity and es- capped with ease and in safety. It would seem that the Sonorians reserve the majesty of their law for foreigners ignorant of the language who are sup posed to have committed crime, and therefore must be imprisoned, and punished in proportion to the amount of coin they can spare. That the prisoners were not guilty, we hold to be self-evident fact. Had their in- tentions have been to have murdered Welsh, the uninhabited district be- tween the Potrero and Terenater over which they travelled, afforded them ample opportunities for committing the deed and hiding the body, much more so than the settled districts of Sonora.
 We will give one item in regard to the murder of the American, which seems to have been unknown or ignor- ed. The day previous to the murder, an inhabitant of La Magdalena had a large beard on his face, but no money in his pocket. The day afterwards, he had money (greenbacks) in his pocket, but no beard on his face. If 8 man can produce money by shaving off his beard, all old men might be rich, and the most hirsute would have most cash. Were such the case, some German philosopher of to day, or al- chemist of the past, would have dis covered it. We cannot believe that it was left for an inhabitant of La Mag dalena to be the first to find so easy path to riches.
 In regard to the trackers of Sonora, we concede that they are unsurpassed, but when the 'vastreador" is search ing for footprints of culpable neigh bours, relations or "compadres," his eyes are apt to be blinded by friend ship. Place in one scale two foreign CTS, strangers, not speaking the Ian guage; heretics, without friends but with money in the other scale, put friends, neighbors and perhaps rela- tions without a cent t-which scale | kicks the beam, dear "Eco'' We'll understood that your vastreador" is an ignoramus- which all of them in- variably are, yet with whose judg- ment the judges themselves cannot disagree.
 We hope the greenbacks taken from the murdered Welsh have been de- posted in the hands of the American Consul in Guaymas for safe keeping until the right heirs can be discovered.
 WE have received the first No. of "The Illustrated Christian Weekly" a paper of much artistic and literary merit, published by the American Tract Society, New York. It is an