Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-07-18
DUTCHY-

| Du'cl! murderOuS land treacherous scoundrei, whose existence aud ;urbu. lent actions of :he present are attribnt- able solely to the grave mistakes Q, deneral Crook, as we will proceed to show, from official records and Gen. Crooks own words.
 The Ch;ricahuas let the reseryalion on their rad of 1882, soma tins in Anril At that time Duschy was a goysrpmeo. scout, aud his apparent sympathy with his errins kin irei led to his discharge from governm ant service while in New Mexico a short tima after the oatbreak With several companions he cama bx, rall to Wilcox anl thence proseedei to the reservation. As h:s tribe was m the warpath he was pu. ou parole and was required to live close to the agepcv On tue night oi July 19:h. 1882, Dutch, with three of his companions, went to the camp of some parties who were pass- ing through % Globe, and. after stand. ing about for time, seized their oppor tunlty to get possession Of the campers two guns, and shot and killed one of q e men, Mormon named Jacob $. Perrin. The others hid in the willows after wit messing the murder, and were afraid to venture out Kit Reynolds, of Globe. was one of the campers and was n wifi ness of the crime. After shooting Fer rln, Dutchy and his companions went over to the place where the yaaueros were guarding the freight teams of Fully < Ochoa, under charge of \. B. Appel, bat the Mexican vaquerss were too cunning to permit them to approach them and they probably saved their lives by their wise precaution. The h. dians then stempeled III the stock near by, and left to join the hostiles in the Sierra Madres.
 On September llth, 1883, information was filed against Dutch.y, before |. $. Commissioner W. F. Gregg, in this city, and warrant for his arrest was placed in the hands of the L. :. Mar shal for service. At that time I. was known that Dutchy was at or Lear Tur- key Creek, on the reservation, having been brought from Mexico as a ''prison- CT of war;" and Marshal z. l.. Tidball wrote 10 Gen Crook to secure the e. operation of the military to make the arrest. in order that no cODtiict might arise and no ;umult ensue. Gen. Crook referred the matter to the War Depart men', through the proper channels, with a recommendation that the arrest be deferred, owing 10 the peculiar state of affairs on the reservation and the trouble it would likely pTecIPitste. Upon the conclusion of considerable correspond ence with Gen. Crook and the depsrt- ment a. Washington the matter was al- lowed temporarily to slumber.
 The United States grand jury found true bill agains. Ddtchy for the murder of Ferrin, on November l5th, 1884. and a bench warrant was issusi for his nr- rest. On the 18th |. ;. Marshal lid ball wrote again to Gen. Crook, asking hls instruction ;a ;he officer in charge of the IndIaus on tbe reservation to as- sist him Ia obayinE iar mandate Of the courts. The General G-ain referred the matt to the War Department, and in one communication upon the subject he said:
 "The Chiriclhuas are TOW all on the reservation and gre doing ibeir best in cul.1vahng the soil. They are content ed and if encouraged and treated with fairress. will gIve no further trouble. If. however, the Iudian Dutchy were 10 be arrested, the whole condition ot af- fairs would be immediately changed, the Indians would become suspicious, and knowing that all have been engaged in depredations, the go2d effect ot the policy of the last year would be wiped ont. These Indians understand that their past offences will be overlooked, provided tat they will behave them selves in the future and l respectfully urge that the interests Of the peo- ple of the United States and Mexico should be considered before step IS taken that would very likely eause them to return 10 the wGrpath.
 "The arrest cf Dutcby would be thought by every ChiricaLua to be a breach of faith and even were hessc- omitted of the charge against him, the feeling of insecurity and want ot trust in the Intentions of the government which I have done my best to eradicate would be so strengthened that the diih- entities O. their management would be much augmented even fl an outbrehk was prevented.
 He elsewhere stated that thIs h. dian was no doubt guilty of the oiiense charged, but th.t the whole tribe was necessarily equally so, and that the o-;,,a 1ras but a contingent of the raid, all tbe offences of which were condoned Inv inst damnable compact m the Slerras Madres made to save his own hie. 10 ,b,s information he certainly mlsled the higher powers, for the murder was coId hooded one. committed before Dutchy went on the war path, and had ,o connection with the rad of bis tribe. The result of the whole matter was that Gen Crooks plan was concurred ID, 70 .I,, afFact that if would better su0seTve nnblic interests to refrain from further action looking to the arrest of this In dian and in deference to the will Of bo.h the War and Interior Depart ments. the case had to be abandoned.
 Comment upon this matter IS hardly necessary. Gen. Crook has chosen to obstruct the civil laws, ostenslbly throrgh fear of dissatisfyIug the crim- nals an precipitating and outbreak but tb. outbreak nevertheless came ss
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