Arizona silver belt., 1892-08-13
JOHN RHODES HEARING
Lphenlk HernIdl

' fAiS tCHtiittNA liidt htiH- WdS tH ltlt FOdi near her home between seven and eigh 2 o'clock sun time August End. Just af 3 ter leaving Che yard she heard the re g port of a gun. She saw wagon ant
 a man standing at the back on horse , back with a gun raised as if to fire
 She recognized the wagon as belong ing to Tom Graham, who fell back on the load of grain.
 The man dropped the gun to his side f when he saw witness, and rode mast on
 slow lope but broke into a run when
 past her. She described the man as
 being heavy let and wearing a light
 felt hat with . red band round it. He held his hat to his face sc that she
 could not see his face She saw man
 looking something like the man who
 was at the back of the wagon pass the
 house about an hour before.
 Miss Grace Griffith was next called.
 She WIS the lady who was with Miss I fCtrhmings on the morning the shoot { ing occurred. She testified substanti-
 ally the same as Miss Cummings, ex- tePt that the man passed her and Miss Cummings d1 irnrd run They start
 ed for Mrs. Graham and as they passed
 the place where Graham was shot, she noticed two hats in the road, one
 brown and one black.
 M. A. Cravath testified as follows l have beer working with Mr Cum
 ming sincc May am not acquainted
 with Mr Rhodes, Tewksbury or Ora.
 ham. ! was cutting weeds iu field
 on MT Cummings place about 100
 feet from the road l heard the report
 of a gun but paid no particular atlen-
 tlon Jo it. I saw a four horse team coming up the road with a load of
 grain and man lying on the grain.
 Isaw a man pass on horseback before
 Isaw the team Before ! saw either
 man or wagon, saw Miss Cummings and Griffith pass to ,he wesgin a cart.
 The man who rode a large bay horse had a rife fastened to the saddle. He was the only man saw except Graham who was on the wagon. took hold of the lead hof5as and turned i them inUo bIr Cummings yard. c}a i ham was lying on his b2c} on he load apparently helpless He Gid not speak . at first but about a moment later poke -o me. Here the prosecution ked what ne said, The deferse objected. I and after Jae time pert in argument tae objection was ovarraled by she court 6B first request hat wash his iaea, and later asked where he was shot asked him &ho aaot bin r ,hela aaogaer objection by ,had4zeHss which wac sustained by the court. When : climbed onto the wagon be was helpless and bleeding profusely from wound on his neck bis head lying between two gram saei5s The 5Gn entered aH inch to the left of tfe spiual column on q level with his shoulder and came out the right side 5l ms CcE
 Miss Betty Gregg testified hata man passed her between seven ard eight o'clock going east on the morning of August 2ud She describcs him as lark with dark moustache. She bought at fra, that he had a beard 'ut il waa some hing black around his leek. Beworea light felt hat wit carlet ribbon around it. lie had fife on right side of his saddle. She vent immediately to town for the doe or and officers, Mrs. Cummings hay- lg called to her and told her what ad occurred.
 She had never seen Mir Rhodes be- ore to-day, that she knew of When he aid Mir FcT5ee were returning rom Tempe he picked up two hats o be road Inc first one they came to C 'as a light eolgred felt and about ten ,et further east a stiff black hat that ,oked as if 1t had been folded up.
 Ms T. NJ Pdinherg wGs the first fitness called vnen court rccouvened " n the Sch inst. She testified that a iI .rge man riding Q large hay horse r' assed her going west, on the morn e' E of August End; he was dressed n H )wboy fashion, carried rife in SC aboard and two pistols in his belt e, he spoke to him; believed it was Ed Ii, ewlssbury. She saw Rhodes ride in- n l, Tempe and speak to Mir Penn at Ie Tempe hotel Rhodes rode bay 2r5o Vi'h heavy saddle; she again 's w the man she thought was Tewks- tl Try riding east His borse was GOV CT ed with foam and going at a gallop. or e had dark handkerchief around su 8 neck. She had known Tewksbury, ol I'd ne had vis.J her house four or te 7e yoar ago h, B G. Trankonhurg testified that he n home, three miles from Tempe, at 40 a. n. Rhodes passed him in front si,
 fydar's lumhcr yard in suburbs of fin empe Rhodes crossed a yard and m hen almost uptoHinayenue stopped m hind the bushes surveyed the road. d rode toward rempeai 9 Jumping " .ita lie met mn, when about a .i' ile from home, riding q horse, a bay 70 thought, but oweating so much he uid not tell, The nan wore silver ay alpaca coat and light hat with d band Took him for Mexican. ~ Id not see gun neither did he po- VI .e that Rhodes carried 9 gup. m' r, E. Adams testified he saw Rhodes we
 Tempe hotel at 6.30 or G.&5 a. ul. do