Arizona citizen., 1880-01-17
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%'mcls!!ER HAMILTON.
4 DefauItins los Angeles Tar Collector v Sonorn-HIs Arrest and Disappearance


 Sonorn-Hjs Arrest and Disappearance.
 A. J. Hamilton, the defalting tax
 collector of Los Angeles, Cal, was, as
 we are advised by letter from Sonora,
 arrested in Guaymas, Dec, 29, upon
 information given by MT. Cubillas. In an examination held before the Judge of the First Instance, the Presl- dent of the Town Council and the U. s. Consul, he confessed to having de frauded Los Angeles County out of S1O,OO0 He had at the time $S4O in gold upon his person which he turned over to Consul Willard, who now re tains it subject to proper orders, saying if was all he had left. Hamilton signed A declaration before the Judge ac- knowledging that the money, as well as S1S0 more taken from man named Forbes, who was acting as a servant, was part of the county funds stolen. He further stated that man named A. E. Garlic, who brought him from Los Angeles to HermOsillo, had forced him to pay $500 which Carrillo took and started for Tucson. Upon being re. auested so to do the Prefect of Quay mas had Hamilton arrested that he might be detained until proper extra dition papers could arrive. Upon the following day, December 30, certain parties interested themselves in the prisoners behalf; and lawyer was sent to try and have him released. As the authorities had no eXtradition pa pers, but yet held a confessed criminal in custody and desired to mete out due punishment to an enemy of society, though the crlme had been committed in a foreign country, they resolved to send him at once to Hermosillo to the Governor asking that he be sent for ward to Tucson, before any papers could be procured from tbe District Court releasing him. Accordingly he was started for HermOSillo on the after noon of the 30th, in charge of MT. Gu billos, who had caused his arrest. The conveyance with the prisoner, how ever, was stopped at a ranch twenty seven miles from Guaymas at ? o'clock in the morning by three mounted, armed men, who took the prisoner and set him free. The three men were recognized on their return to Guaymas and were at once placed in jail. The Prefect offered a reward of S125 for the arrest of the criminal buI up to the date of the letter he had not been again heard from. A report was current, however, that he had S1000 concealed by being wrapped around his legs above the knees, when released from custody of MT. Cubillas. No papers or letters of any kind were found in his valise. The authorities of Guay mas are represented as having done everything possible in the case and deserve all praise. If Hamilton is again brought before them he prOba- ply will escape no more.
 LARGE shipments of inning ma chinery are now going into the Globe district. The road commissioners, who returned Tuesday, report twenty teams with trains, making forty wagons loaded with machinery w between the McScal and Pinal ranges on the road from Riverside. The teamsters complain of very heavy grades on the Mescal range, and one wagon upset in the canyon near Dripping Springs. It is probable that most teams will take the new road up the Gila canyon as soon as the freighters learn the ad- vantages of this route. It is true the road is yet heavy from want of travel, but it avoids the heavy grades on the old Putnam road over the Mescal range.