Arizona republican., 1890-05-19
MOURN FOR LOGAN.
One Way to Get Even
 With An Informer.
Work of a Party of BlOod-
 Thirsty Negroes.
One of the Beauties of the Life of a Private in the Regu-
 lar Army.

The way of the infOrmer is generally hard.
 That is proposition that the United States government proposes to demon- strate in two trials for murder and con- spiracy that will be called in the Dis trict Court during the present week.
 Early last summer some hangers on about headquarters at San Carlos were mortified at finding, in little ravine some distance from the barracks, the dead body of negro soldier named William Fleming. The body was hor- ribly mutilated, the head being beaten in with clubs and stones and the trunk and limbs showing ghastly marks of the wounds the dead man had received.
 An investigation at once set on foot by the post officers, who also immedi' ately reported the affair to the United States authorities, showed that while Fleming was good soldier, he was not by any means favOrite with his com rades. Many of these, in fact, were dis. posed to be jealous of him mainly for the reason, perhaps, that he was good soldier and as such found favor, as they claimed, with the officers.
 The investigation developed the fact further, that the men of his company were given to practicing all sorts ot petty impositions upon Fleming, and that very great amount of kicking was the result with much ill feeling growing out of it all. The soldiers amongst whom the trouble occurred, perhaps il is well to state, were all colored.
 It seems that the chief of Fleming's prosecutors was Sergeant Logan, who had command of the squad to which the murdered man belonged and who therefore had it in his power to make rhe victim of his dislike extremely un- comfortable.
 So far were these prosecutions carried that Logan received a reprimand for them from his superior officers and at once jumped to the conclusion, whether right or wrong does not matter, that Fleming had reported him.
 This, it may be imagined, did not tend to make matters any pleasanter for Fleming.
 The bitterness of feeling grew more intense and Logan, it is alleged conceived the idea of doing up the informer, once for all. He found men in the regiment who were willing to follow his lead who were, in fact, willing to take the work of vengeance virtually off his ho nls Thaua Dri,nnc las, Jefferson Wilson and man named after the finding of Fleming's body, and who were subsequently, in iicted by the United States grand jury for murder. The evidence showed that these men had enticed Fleming away from the camp and had beaten him to death. The prosecution will make very strong case against them.
 Sergeant Logan was subsequently in- dicted for conspiracy to murder, a sec ond indictment being returned against Douglas, Wilson and Edwards for this Offense also.
 Very nearly all the negro soldiers at San Carlos have been called to Phoenix as witnesses in these cases, and the trial will probably prove to be a very long and tedious one.
 It is believed, upon very good grounds, that the whole story did not come out at the investigation before the grand jury, and, aside from the fact that it may be possible to connect Logan more directly with the actual killing, there are anticipated some other develop ments that may prove exceedingly sen sational.
 o. T. Rouse will appear for the de- fendants in the case, and United States District Attorney H. R. Jeffords, assist ed by Calvert Wilson, will prosecute.