The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-06-20


 sffer Mir C. " Beach infarmed me that
 certain party had visited his editorial room
 accompanied by a man named Napper.
 wb"in hs introduced with the procursory,
 .'he vill tell yov something about your
 friend SiAnion.' This man who han has
 arm in sling. and who is Mormon of
 notoriously disreputable character. told
 AT. Beach that had stolen a number of
 his cattle snd sold them to the Mcxicans al
 Weaver.
 While I was undergoing an examination
 before the Justice. to my astonishment on
 returning to the jail, found that Eieanora
 h"dnguez Hss bailed out and gone On
 speaking t0 MuTat Masterson. tho District
 Attorney, about his being allowed to ss af
 iarge--as had some information at this
 time os his being implicated in the murder
 Of Iimmerman-thst gentleman informed
 me that ihe SheTsf shOsed him the letter
 written by Rodrigues. that he sent for
 Rains about ii, that Rains jumped six feet
 of the ground Oa ti,s. letter being read 70
 him. and that soon after he received iele- graphic dispatch from Thtckery, to reduce the l'ail Of Rodrgres to 5000, as he want ed him out for the purpose of hunting up
 some other robbers in the southern part of the Territory. That Rains entered his office accompanied by Mr. Churchill and James Bright, that Bright and Freq Williams went on his bonds Tor 5000.
 Alter Rodrigues was tailed ont l ascer- iained from Juan Ruibal, who was still ID jail, that himself and ROdrigdes killed John | Zimmerman on the 2Gih of January.
 Raibai turned States Evidence on condi- | lion that fis life would De spared, which | was agreed to between himself and the Dist. Atty In less than two hours after tiis occurrence, Rains came into the Dist. Atiys. office with James Bright, one of the men who went on Rodrigue's bonds, and the same Bright swOre out warrant charg ing Nican0ra Rodrigues and Juan Ruibal with the killing of Zimmerman. Rodri- gues at this time was gone and has not been heard of since,
 This same James Bright, l believe, was eoerced by the parties against me, to swear that l stole gun fiom Mir. Bennett, and when they ascertsincd that Mir. Bennett lost no gun, he then amended the com plaint and swore l must have stolen it from somebody else. All this swearing was on information and belief very spacious way of covering up perjury. This charge was dismissed by the Justice, as no person { would take the staI.d and testify 10 any thing. To gain time was their object.
 In the charge of stealing the gol1 speci- men, W. J. T0mpkins swore our the war rant on information and belief also, and { when placed on the witness stand, stated , that he knew nothing about it. :,
 | man named Johnson sworc that stole $ the said specimen from him, that it was { never out of his possession up to the morn ing of the l2th of January 1879, that he { had it that morning in his possession. ( This he swore 10 in the most positive man. 1 neT, and he was the only witness against $ mo.
 testified and my evidence is in writing, i that this gold specimen Was stolen from the q tunnel in my mine, together with about l5 i pounds of specimen rock, valued at $500. I Thirteen of the most respectable inhabi- [ tants of Prescott namely: V
 C.P. Dake, C. C. Bean, A. J. Mason, r r. Hamilton, Dan. Hatz, Geo. W. Bowers, Ed. W. Wells. John Bohn, T. J. Dougherty, [ W J Howard, Mr. Patterson, W. 4. Cline, c NIT. Westgate, 1nd others who l do not a testified that l was in Prescott f from the sth, till the 1lth of January, 1879. s and that had this identical gold specimen S with me, tngether with q number of other $ gold specimens. 0
 In tue face vf such evidence Justice Cate, bound me oyer n the penal sum of s600, 10 await the decision of the Grand Jury.
 The Justice declared in his court room, ~ when no other persons were present but C. C. Bean and myself, that he intended to . bog the gold specimens when the case was 7 Iiisposed of, ana have been informed that q he did purchase the gold specimens which ! sWoTe to as being my property in his ! court. :,
 take this opportunity of thanking my I lawyer, John A. Rush, for the manly and eloquent manner in which he defended me, 2 and comba,ed with the oonspirators before i, what considered prejudicial court, and ,' or his legal accumen in having the case ', brought before higher tribunal on writ |, of iabeas coPas. TT
 I have also to thank tbe Honorable J. P. U U Hargrave, Court Commissioner, for his re- U riew of the whole of the evidence Tn my :. ,ase, which occupied him three days, and S iis able analysis of that testimony. criti- n Using and censuring the high handed it. II i egal proceedings of the Justices Court, and .ll parties concerned, and declaring that v hero was no evidence before him to show V hat public olfeBSe had been committed; . md directed the sheriff to release np from .i lls custody. q
 MT. Masterson, the District Attorney. in- =; ormed me. after beng discharged, that n ., yerything that men and money could do, a vas done in my case to try and convict me, - - md must say that be, ss Prosecuting At ,t orney for the Territory, did his beet, l ,a % lope he will now do the same on the other '. " idle. %r %
 By the advise of friends have abstained u ID to the present time from publishing tnis, Q as to enable the authorities to do their luty. have reported the whole case to !. J Valentino. Superintendent of Wells, 'argo X Co, San Francisco. !. In conclusion. beg to say, that l have ,'; cen nearly IS years engaged m mining in M M he United States, and portions of South w m .merica; that my character is we'll known ., ~ uring the tune have been in this country 'al -ihai Yavspai County has been my home d; nce 1870; that before coming to this ,t, ountry flied important posi- ions in vari- sn % us parts of Europe, and that came tO the ,,,' nited States as q political refugee, which fm,o m an be aScartained by reference to the p; .ecords of the Court of Common Pleas. ao few York City. That therefore, l am DO ,h scaped nvict, etc. ss the secret ennis s;, sries and spies of private corporations, in mn injunction with their collusivc contede- ,,i l,os, for their nefarious purposes would ,h