Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-12-13
MURDER.
The Sensational Arrest of a Prominent
 stockman of Apache County.
Charged with Having Committed A
 Murder in Texas Ten Years Ago.

The Sensational Arrest of . PFominen.
 stockman of Apache County.
 Charged with Having Committed s
 Murder iR Texas Ten Years Ago.
 From parties who returned, last
 evening, from attending court in Apache county, particulars are
 learned, of quite a sensational ar
 rest, made in St. Johns, on Satur-
 day evening, December Q. On the
 arrival of the stage from Navajoe
 station, neatly dressed gentleman l alightrd and proceeded direct to
 the SheriH's office Parties who
 visited the office were introduced to
 him as Mir. Clark of Albuquerque.
 Later tn the evening, the stranger accompanied by Sheriff Campbell aud two depaties proceeded to one of the principal saloons of the town and going up to table where four men weTe engaged in playing cards showed a six shooter in the face of Henry Hart and informed him that he was a prisoner and proceeded to the county jail with him. Hart was taken completely by surprise, but was as cool and calm as if he had just received an invitation to join the party in . picnic instead of beiug under arrest for the crime of murder. The stranger introduced by the name of Clark from Albu- querque proved to be Sheriff Nunn of Bfaxos county Texas. He claims to have known Hart from boyhood and on the way to the jail tried in various ways to get Hart to ae- knowledge the acquaintance and thereby his identity, but signally friled. He remarked to the latter "why you know me and have known me for years, to which Hart coolly replied, Il don't know you from Adams oG oX."
 Hart Is very popular in Apache county, wheTa be has resided for tho past ten years, and few years ago was prominently talked of as candidate for member of the board of supervisors. Realizing this fact, aud in anticipation of an effort to release him from custody, the Texas official 1 secured the assistance of two depu- l ties and at midnight hastily started | for the railroad station with his | prisoner.
 The crime of which Hart k ac- cused was the killing of a sheriff in 1 Texas two years ago. Two versions of it were related. One was to the I etiecl that be had been convicted of stealing cattle and that the officer was on his way to the penitentlary with hi Ulcn he succeeded in killing the sh,rif. and in making his escape. The other is shat he had been convicted of the above crime and was serving . sentence in the penItentiary and escaped from that institution and killed the officer while resisting rearrsst. His Texas name IS said to be Relnhart, Schnei- der or Snyder. The sheriff who came for him says that he has two brothers in the Texas peniteniiary, lno serving a sentence for killing a school teacher, the other for steal ng cattle. Snyder, or Hart as he was known, n Apache county, came there be- ween nine and ten years ago com ng on foot. He was not long in ecuring a position with a large cat le Company, where he demon trated superior ability in the posi- ion. lt was some time after his rrival that he was joined by his rife and children, and ever since aking up his residence in the coun- ', has lived quiet peaceabe life nd as stated was one of the most | opulaT men in the county. While lways being peaceably disposed it 'as noticed that until about two ears ago he always went armed lth a six shooter, the cause of hich is now, for the first time ex- lained. a
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