Arizona republican., 1895-10-30
AN OLD MURDER EXPOSED The Mystery Of the Ky
 rene Plain. How John Green Was Shot by
 His Partner. Exposure of the Crime of Lyman FoIIett-Robbery of the
 Widow.

December, 1891, a horseman riding along the road near the base of the Maricopa mountains, about eight miles in a southwesterly direction from Tempe, came across the body of dead man lying about fifty yards from the highway, but partially concealed from view by brush and tall sahuara.
 The horseman rode into Tempe and notified the coroner, who immediately impaneled jury and proceeded to the scene The body had been dead sev- eral days. but cold weather had pre- vented decomposition. The body was lying on the ground, face downward in the remains of a fire. The neither limbs were partially eaten by coyotes. The attending physician examined the remains and found in a bullet hole, which ranged from the back of the head upward and forward, coming out of the right eye, the cause os death
 Investigation of the ground in the vicinity showed footprints leading away from the scene, also the hoof marks of a mule. The man had been murdered and the dastardly assassin had crawled up on him from the rear while he was bending over the fire cooking rabbit on a stick. When the fatal shot was fired the man fell forward into the fire, which badly burned one side of his face. The mur- derer then led the mule toward Phoe- nix on foot, as the footprints indicated The trail was lost and never recoV- cred.
 From papers on the corpse 1t was learned that his name was John Green and that he had relatives living in Pennsylvania. A few days after the finding of the body it was learned that the dead person had left Gila Bend in company with another man, ostensibly on prospecting tour.
 The motive of the killing was as crfbed to robbery. The murderer, however, was not apprehended and the tragedy appeared destined to remain unsolved 50 far as the identification of the assassin was concerned
 The old saying that murder will out has never been better exemplifed than in this case, for the complete story is now at hand.
 The name of tine murdered man was John Green. He had lived in the upper Gila valley, having fine farm across the river from Pima. He was about 2S years of age and had a wife and three young children. While of fair character. he had some bad associates, one of them being Lyman Follett, one of the WhaTn robbers, or, at least, one of the defendants in that most noted trial that proved the ignoble and pitt able end of one of the most dastardly and greatest crimes of the decade.
 In November of '91 Follett and Green left the Gila valley on what they an- nounced would be lengthy trip.
 About month thereafter FoIlett re- turned. He simply said that Green had skipped" and had given him power Of attorney to dispose of his property. The power of attorney was recognized as correct, it being ack- noWledged before George Passey. no- tary public at Mesa Accordingly the ranch was sold by Follett to I. E. Sol Omon, the young wife signing the deed under representations from Follett and his friends that all was right. Fol lett pocketed the cash in the transac- tion and thereafter disappeared. Let ters afterward were received by his associates from him at Liverpool Eng land, and latterly several notes to his confidants from him at Johannesburg South Africa. He is not a good letter writer-he tells too much.
 It is largely through Follett himself that it was learned that he slew John Green. They had left Pima on "a lit 1n 6no1 in n. Green was told by his companion that a body had been dug up on the Green ranch and that Green had been charged with the murder.
 There would appear to have been something in the threat of exposure for on the strength of it Follett se- ere the power of attorney, to act while Green hid till after the grand jury session. Then Follett killed his vic tim as soon as a suitable spot had been reached
 The chain of cfrcumstantial evidence is complete and Lyman Follett will swing if ever brought back to Arizona
 Mrs. Green. the young wife, a daugh- ter of D. Holiday of Graham, is now employed as a domestic in Solomon vile, thus supporting her three chil- dren. The farm beyond Pima is now regarded as one of the best in the vi cinity and is worth with it's water right at least $4,000. Two brothers named Hunt about year ago pur- chased 120 acres of it from MT. Solo. mon.
 Another act of the tragedy lately took the boards. c. E. olliday, . brother of the widow was a clost friend of Green. He has for severa years occupied himself largely witt working up the details of the plot ant gathering the links of the chain 0.