Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-09-09
John NJ. Jones. the Celebrated
 Detective OfGila County.
FLORENCE, Sept. [. 1882.

has endeavored, Ill lengthy article Ill the Silrer Belt, to falsify the facts connected with the discovery and capture of Hawley and the Crime brothers, the Globe stage robbers and murderers. I cannot lmag- inc what motive has prompted this cele brated detective to thus pose as an ass and very common liar, unless he has lent himself as q cats paw to rake some other CT that Is true or not, 1t does not alter the fact that he Is either a fool or knave, or both as I will prove by a state ment of the facts and ventilation of his falsehoods.
 He starts out by saying;
 An unfair and highly colored statement having appeared ill the Florence ENTER PRISE of the 26th, I desire through the columns of your paper to state a few facts, and only such as are within my knowl- edge in reference to the late attack on the U. S. mail, the killing of Wells, Fargo < Go. s messenger and Dr. Vail, and the bringing to justice of the arch fends who perpetrated the deed, in order that the public may be advised that Deputy U. s. Marshal Gabriel, in the article referred to, is more than duly lauded and given the entire credit of having been the means of securing the arrest of the men who robbed"
 Now, Mir. Editor, your article here re- ferred to was neither unfair nor highly colored." It was a truthful statement of unvarnished facts, furnished by me and am ready to substantiate them at any time, John M Jones, the celebrated de- tective to the contrary notwithstanding. As to the statement that I was "unduly lauded and given the entire credit of hav- ing been the means of securing the arrest of the robbers" your own article will give it the lie. You credited Lindsley Lewis, Capt. Lacy and myself with having cap tured young Crime at the Wheat fields, and stated that I subsequently, effected the capture of Hawley in his house at Globe. If this is not true, will John M. Jones, the celebrated detective please in- form us who did capture Hawley and Crime? Again this croaker says:
 ''It is not true, as stated by the ENTER PRISE, that the town (Globe) was all in arms, and wild with excitement when Gabriel arrived, nor was 1t necessary that an officer from another county should h hap1. Cor. t,N 4,lr claimed in the article referred to, for the reason that Gila county officers are quite as capable of ferreting out the perpetra- tors of a mysterious crime as those who think they know it all.
 l say, and can prove it, that the town was all excitement when I arrived there, and if there was one there were dozen armed squads who invited me to go out with them, but Ireplied that the first thing to do was to discover a clue to the perpetra- tors of the deed. It is true that I did not see John M. Jones, the celebrated detec- tive, with the armed bodies. He was probably skulking in some safe place, waiting for some one to discover, capture and handcuff the robbers before he should tackle them. That is his style. As to the statement of my having ''been sent for" that is lie of the first magnitude and there was nothing in the ENTERPRISE upon which John M. Jones, the celebrat- ed detective, or any other professional liar could base such statement I was at Silver King Monday, when MT. Ben. Hereford, of Tucson, came over from Globe and exhibited to crowd of citi- zens Andy Halls bullet riddled shirts and told them the story of his murder. saw the crowd and went up to them to see what was the matter When told of the murder and shown the shirts clotted with the life blood of my best friend, deter mined to assist in hunting down the as- sassins, and having no horse with me I hired a mule of Wm. O'Boyle and started for Globe of my own volition. Not soul of that town knew I was coming till I ar AlN CO b1iCAC GU U SIOOh AdCSudy and defy John M. Jones, the celebrated detective, CT any other free and easy liar to prove to the contrary. To the indict- ment that I "think I know it all" must dcmur. I am conscious of the fact that I know but very little, but, God knows, that little IS volumes more than John NJ Jones, the celebrated detective, ever did or ever will know.
 Continuing his feathery froth, this blo- viating hummer, John M. Jones, the eel ebrated detective, says:
 And now let me ask, why did Marshal Gabriel go at once to D. B. Lacy upon his arrival in Globe, and not to Sheriff Low ther, who was quite as earnest in his en- deavOrs and probably as well informed in regard to affair as civilian whose suspi- cions were evidently first aroused as to L. V. Grimes complicity in the bloody affair by one who had been in conference with Sheriff Lowther in reference to at least one of the guilt parties !"
 My answer IS, I did not go to D. B. Lacy "at once" or any other man, was there to assist in bringing to justice the murderers of my bosom friend and acted on my own judgment and independently
 passed Sheriff Lovther a half dozen
 times, but he did not so much as hint
 that a murder had been committed. Had
 he spoken to me, I would have joined him
 cheerfully in ferreting out the robbers
 But as he remained as reticent as a wax
 Indian did not deem it my duty to beg
 for his cooperation. As to John Nj
 Jones, the celebrated detective, did no
 get even a trasitory view of his noble car
 cass, elseI should have availed myself ofhi
 matchless skill and colossal brain. Blu