Arizona republican., 1895-07-21
STORY OF A VICTIM.
One of the Men Who Was
 Held Up.
He Tells of the Stage Robbery In Sonora and of Triboietts Con-
 nection With It.
By the Associated Press.

TUCSON, ArlZ., July W.-Jamee A. Crowley, one of the Americans who was held us at the time of the recent robbery of the Nascasaria stage in Sonora, Mex, arrived here a few days ago and gives particulars of the rob- bery and the subsequent, arrest and killing of the robbers by the Mexican authorities. .,>-s.-- .-s.
 His story of the stay of the, party over night at the house of Fri bolett and of the su bseQuent robbery of the party and of the killing of one of the robbers is the game as that already printed.
 Concerning the killing of the robber. Moreno, he says. ss
 "Moreno's body was turned over to his family and was buried that after noon, it's arrival having created great excitement in the camp. Crowley was summoned before the presidente of the town and required to make a written statement of the occurrence, and also to explain why he had brought the dead body of Moreno out of the From teras district and into the Montezuma without authority from the officials of the district, such thing being against the law. He was then placed under surveillance, his statement being sent to the authorities ct Oposura. fifty. five miles distant, sn1 detectives were put to work on the c ss, being summoned from all over the country"
 Of the other men who were after. wards executed and their connection with the robbery, he says:
 gGIn fWalvo days. hu fhQ dIrQctinu of the governor of Sonora, the presidente of Fronteras was placed under arrest. This was followed shortly afterward by the arrest of Tribolett, his foreman, and two others of his employees. The next morning they were taken by Maj. Mendez, commander of the "cordado. :" of district police, about six miles in the direction of the scene of the robbery. and there shot by the roadside The presidente. who had meantime been disgraced from office, was the first to be shot. then "Diablo," the man who rode the buckskin horse. then one of Tribolett's vaqueros, and lastly. Trib- olett. The fifth was boy who had turned states evidence, and he was told to return to Fronteras and tell what he had seen. The shooting party consisted of four men, W ho stood but few ft ct away from their victims.
 ''Tt ,e facts were learned by Crowley from Mai. Mendez, who further said in relation to Tribolett that the latter de- nied having been present at the rob. bery, which was probably so, but that the robbery bad been concocted at his house, and that not only Tribolett, but the mayor and nun Der of prominent citizens of Fronteras were implicated, and those not caught would be gathered in later. Crowley was also told that his watch and pistol were found in Tr1 bolett's house, as was also $1 .530 of the stolen money.
 Tfibolett's foreman, the man who robbt d Crowley, at the time he held him prisoner in the bush, escaped, but was subsf q1ently caught near Oposura and executed in u e presence of the whole town. who turned out to see him shot. He offered to make full comics. sion if given his life, but this was de- nied him; he refused to go into details, but admitted his complicity in the out. rage. He dled courageously. There were three other active participants in the robtery, who were in am bush lower down the road, but thus far they have escaped.
 Crowley states that for time he was in precarious position. He had without authority and contrary to law taken dead body from one district to another, and the fact that there were two Americans on the buck board, and neither Of them were killed, was looked on suspiciously by both the people and the authorities, and until the matter WAS thoroughly cleared up he was in constant danger of being killed. Finally the authorities offered him q guard of soldiers, but these he re. fused. He however, concluded that it was bet to get out of the country. and did so.
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