Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-10-22
A DENVER STORY.
A Sensation Which Ia Badly Spoiled by lbe

4 sensatfon Which Ia Badly Spoiled by Ihe
 solid Truth.
 The Denver Republican of tue 10th instant publishes sensational report of what 1t calls strange compact, in which an Arizona murderer figures as the owner of 3,60O head of cattle which can be purchased for S10,0O0 as tbe murderer wants to fly to Europe, etc. The story as told by the Republican Im- plicates Mr. 5. w. Fisher, the newly appointed Collector of Internal Reye- nues for Arizona, as possessing knowl- edge of the murderer and hls property which IS said to be near Tucson, and with desire to purchase the cattle and shield the offender.
 4 representative of the CITIZEN this morning called upon NIT. Fisher at hIs office on Convent street, and handed him a copy of the paper containing the sensational article referred to, with request that he carefully read the state ments therein made. Mr. Fisher did so, and at its conclusion could not restrain 6 fit of hearty laughter. He then de- tailed everything he knew concerning the transaction, winch was simply and briefly as follows:
 Last Thursday morning be left his home in Golden, Colorado, and went to Denver to take passage the same day for Arizona. Mir. I. L. Bellam, his chief clerk, was to follow by train with the baggage of the party, consistingof one trunk each for Messrs. Fisher, Bellam and Thos. Covey, resident Of Golden, who had closed out his business and was intending to accompany Mir. Fisher to Arizona and look at the country with view to engage in business. These trunks were duly checked at Denver for Tucson, and MT. COvey, who had pre- ceded the party to Colorado Springs to visit friends, boarded the train at that place and came through to this city. While in Denver MT. Fisher was at the livery stable of MT. Frank Hunter, and was introduced to Gsorge W. Stone, stranger to him. As MT. Fish CT was about to leave the of fee, Stone asked him to step aside, and said that if he was going to Tucson he was just the man he wanted to see: that man near Tucson, owning 36OO head of cattle, had shot one man
  cattle could be bought cheap by Stone, as the owner did not want Stone to ap- pear against him. NIT. Fisher replied that he was not buying cattle, and MT. Stone then said that he had nearly the amount of ready money required and would obtain the balance soon at Fort Collins, and he wanted to arrange with NIT. Fisher to receive the cattle and | care for them. Mr. Fisher then replied that he would be too busy to give any time to such proposition, but that a young man WAS going to Arizona with him who had no special business at present, and might be of service to him. Stone then asked if he WAS sure this young man would go to Tucson, and Mir. Fisher replied that he was, for he had his trunk with him."
 This was all the conversation between Mir. Fisher and Stone, and Mir. Fisher has not heard from him since, as he left Denver two hours afterwards.
 The conversation attributed Co have occurred on the cars never took place. One of the CITIZEN staff was in ! the same car with Nr. Fisher from Denver to Tucson and noticed | that from Denver to Colorado Springs Mir. Fisher occupied the seat of the chief clerk, MT. Bellam, and from Colorado Springs to Pueblo, he sat a portion of the time with railroad man named T. Nj. Smith, whose conversation with Mir. Fisher was distinctly heard by | the representative of this paper, who | knows that such conversation never occurred as stated in the Republican. | In fact the sensation wRs made from the thiunsst warp of truth into which the Republican reporer has woven the most abundant wool of imagination.