Arizona republican., 1893-05-18
The Case of the Alleged
 Colored Murderer
Yesterday Transferred
 to Pinal County.
,change of Jurisdiction Since
 the First Trial.
,,w Logan, Douglass and Edwards Acquitted of the Same
 Crime Met Death.

In the federal division of the distrlc, .,n,, yesterday an order was passed ,,,n.ierrlng the case of Jeff Wilson tC piDsl county for second trial. Wilson has lain in the Maricops ,,npty iail more than three years, a ,,ssrer part of which time he has been s,apr sentence of death for implication ;, inc murier in 1889, on the White yopptain reservation, of colored .,ISer of the troop to which the ac- ,rspd belonged. The story of the mur' Jar and the evidence brought out in wilson's case is familiar to all. There Tsrs arrested with him as asso. cistps m the crime three other ,oored soldiers, members of the same ,,oop, Logan, Douglass and Edwards. inotber, VarDum was held as witness nnril about six months ago when he VAS released on habeas corpus and is now living in Phoenix. Wilson was trisd first convicted and sentenced to h, hnng. The trials of the others allowed, at which it was learned that tbe most damaging evidence against Wilson was unrelia ole and his alleged associates to convict whom reliance bsd been placed on that evidence, were scQuitted.
 appeal was taken to the supreme olrt in the case of Wilson an last spring the finding of the bger court was overruled and new uiaI was ordered.
 These trials took place in this county s,he murder had been comm tied in Ga county which was then In thus, ,he second judicial district. Since then anew distlict, the second, has been formed the federal conrt In which Is held at Florence, hence the removal ol Joe case.
 Varnum, the witness, tells an in. sresling story of the ill luck, disaster sld death oi the three men who were .qutted of the crime. Logan. he says did in North Dakota, of a gunshot wound and before his death confessed that he had murdered the soIdier, though it is not known whether his r0nisssiOn implicated or exJnerated Wilson and the others. Douglass alter hs scQllttal returned to his troop at San Carlos, and while ri ling on horse back was thrown and received iDjliies hom which he died.
 In a railway accident on the St. Louis, Arkansas X LIttle Rock both of Hgards's legs were broken and death son followed. According to Varnum's information these casualt es occurred imOst simultaneously so that those who believe in providential influence n earthly affairs take the violent death 0i these men to be an evidence of their gIt
 t is said in defense of Wilson that Eli,e motive for the crime had been shown in the cases of Logan, Douglass and Edwards none was prod in hIs a;e. During the last two years of his 'iay in the Phenix jail he was regarded Elhe father" of that institution aud vas allowed more privileges than hal eyer before been accorded d man under enteHce oi death. He never abused M' privileges but on several occasions prevented outbreaks of prisoners. It VII be remem bered that when John Clay, the noted horse thief, had almost escaped Wilson gave the alarm which Fevsn ed the escape. He subsequently, ie'j'lel rcyengelul attack by Clay whom hs almost fatally cut with Il razor SAIch he had concealed Tn his cell in UM; ;uuaC ,bllfable manner.