Arizona silver belt., 1890-08-09
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The cnDuaflety Df opinlon relating to the murder of Lawyer Hardie, in
 Fucker canyon, apparently, was as diff
 iicult of solution as the perplexing : question, ''who was the father of Zeb-
 edee2's children. Dr. Haynes, who
 was with Hardie at the time referred to,
 and whose horse was killed by bullet
 fired by the sane party thnt murdered
 Hardie, was suspected, ill Los Angeles,
 of having committed the fell deed, al- Though there was not an incident at-
 tending the tragic act that supported the belief.
 General B. II. Grierson officially de- nied that Indians were tho guilty par ties AL Seiber in an interview with a newspaper correspondent, discredited the statement that Indians killed liar die. "On being asked what he thought of the Hardie affair, as to whether or not the Kid had anything to do with that murder, he (Sieber) promptly re- piled no. Continuing he said, 1t would have been q physical impossibii- ity for the Kid 10 have been in the Fucker canyon nj the time Mir. Hardie was killed because the Kid was seen about that time on the San Pedro. The writer did not question him as to his knowledge concerning the where abouts of the Kid at the time of the murder in RucSer canyon for the reason that the authorities at San Carlos, so the writer has been informed by relia- ble parties, have what is called secret service force of Indians, and perhaps it was through such channel that the commanding officers of the department who is at Los Angeles, California, 300 miles away, gained his information which led him to assert that it was other Indians that murdered Mr. Hnrdie.
 ''Mr Seiber also said, in the way of explaining his belief i. was not Indians, that if it had been Indians who com mitted the crime Dr. Haynes would never have got away as he did. ,"
 Dr. Haynes statement. as published, is that he saw the Indians; thnt after his horse was killed, he instantly mounted Hardie's horse and thus es- capped,
 A published statement is to the egect that the scene of the murder was eri,i- l cally examined by noted scout who l pointed out the position of the parties t5) there, and from unmistakable signs pronounced that the crime WAS the 1 work of Indians whose receding tracks were followed for many miles.
 General Nelson A. Miles authorized | the following statement, which ap- peared in the Tombstone Prospector of 1 d late date: ''1he facts in relation to the killing of Hardie by Indians have | had positive eorroboration. If fur ther proof were necessary to fix the 1 guilt upon tho Indians, we have it in the admission of one of the participants. | Saves, that he and the Kid fired the fatal shots which killed Hariie. Saves, | who is instinctively murderer, is now in custody aud strongly guarded at San Carlos, and will doubtless pass from time to eternity, in an adjoining coun- | ty, at the end of rope, as one of the participants in inc murder of Sheriff l Reynolds and Deputy Holmes.
 General Miles, in saying ''thnt the 1 military are absolutely convinced that Hardie was killed by renegade Indians from the San Carlos reservation, doubtless overlooked the fact that tho 1 depredating Indians are escaped con yicts from Territorial authority, and that neither the agent nor military are responsible for their conduct, although | they have been most active in their en- deayor to check their lawless career.
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