The herald., 1895-02-22
THE CASE AGAINST BOYD
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Some Startling Discoveries Made By
Ezekiels
The nurderer of Doll Now in Jail at Florence
Mrs. Dolls Narrow Escape
From Death

Tucson, Feb. 20.-The prospects for a
term at Yuma for w. f. Boyd, alias East
man, alias Ellis, who is confined in the
county Jail pending an examinations. by
the federal grand jury OF the driver
charged with robbing the Solomonville
and Fort Thomas stage some weeks ago,
are as bright as a newly coined silver dol
lar. Boyd is not charged with being i'm
plicated in the robbery, but is held as
witness. The charge on which he is likely
to go to the territorial penitentiary is
forgery Wells, Fargo & Co. is the COM
planning witness.
When Gage, the young stage driver, was
arrested for robbing his own stage, says
the Tucson Star, and placed behind the
bars of the county Jail, he claimed that
Boyd was the guilty party saying that the
latter was at Solomonville on the night
previous to the hold-up and claiming that
Boyd could shed a great ray of light on the
subject if arrested.
Deputy Marshal al Ezekiels went to
work on the case. He took Boyd's trail
at Bowie and followed it to Wilcox, where
he learned that his man had registered at
one of the hotels under the name of East
man and that he had changed his clothes
before departing Ezekels followed him
to Fort Grant, where he found Boyd at
tired in a soldiers uniform, he having
enlisted under the name of Ellis and de-
stroyed his civilian clothes.
Ezekiels placed him under arrest,
charging him with the stage robbery, and
brought him to Tucson. The examina-
ton before the court commissioner re-
suited in the charge of robbery against
him being dismissed but in his being
held as a witness, under bail to appear
when the case of Gage came up before
the federal grand jury. He was unable
to furnish the amount of bail and was re-
manded to the custody of the marshal.
Boyds actions while at Bowie Wilcox
and Fort Grant had been very suspicious,
and Ezekiels proceeded to make thorough
investigation, which resulted in some
startling discoveries. 1t was learned at
Bowie that he had forged a money order
on Denver party and secured $34, and
that he had obtained clothing, etc, on
making false representations to a local
mercantile establishment.
Ezekiels worked hard on the case, and
the other day, considering things ripe
enough to spring, he held a conference
with Ed Crumb, route agent for Wells,
Fargo q Co., and that company's detect
i've, Mr.. Thatcher, who chanced in the
city. Thatcher visited the iail and
identified Boyd as the man whom he had
arrested in Reno, New, some time ago for
crooked work, and who had for a long
time been operating along the Pacific
Coast. Boyd remembered Thatcher only
too well, but refused to say anything to
him.
Route Agent Crumb has sworn out
complaint against Boyd, and Sheriff Fly
of Cochise county will be in the city to-
day to take Boyd to Tombstone to stand
trial. The crime was committed in Co
chise county.
Mr.. Ezekiels has worked long and hard
on the case, and is deserving of much
credit for the able manner in which he
has handled it. The authorities of Pinal
county feel quite certain that tIe
Mexican now in Jail in Florence charged
with the murder of Dolls,a Alma some
weeks ago, is one of the guilty parties.
Mrs. Doll, who so narrowly escaped
a fate similar to that of her husband ana
son, is now living at Galveston Tex,
a reward of 5000 in addition to the reward
of $500 offered by the territory She has
been acquainted with the fact that man
is now in jail at Florence charged with
being one of the perpetrators OF the ter
rble crime, and she has also been re-
quested to come to Arizona as soon as
possible to identify him.
1t is thought that if she recognizes the
man in jail as one OF the two MeXicans that
muraerCd her son and husband, the
fellow will weaken and make a confession
which will result in putting the oi11e rs
on to the one who is now breathing tree
air. Word is daily expected from her rs
to whether she Will come.
When Mrs. Doll left the territory sew
eral weeks ago she declared that she
would never return to Arizona. The TACT
that one of the supposed slayers is i'll jail
may cause her to change her mind.