Arizona republican., 1897-12-22
PENNEY & ROBINSON,

followed the cattle lntil they w,re' found sixty-fve miles from where they had been stolen. In reply to Judge Kibbey's questions he described and named the ranches in all that region. He told abou1 stopping at Kerrick's place, where he saw his gray flea bitten horse, Jim Blaine, with a pacin' gait and the marks Of the saddle and hard riding still on him. In repiy to another question which the little wit ness thought related to his own age, but which nearly everybody else be- lieved was connected with further description of the horse, he said, Thirteen years old.''
 He was then turned over to Judge Baker, who approached him wikh mis- givings, for boy who know all the r2nehies, mein, women and rhildi en within radius of 100 miles, all the horses, with their colprs, names and ages within the same radius, is an ob- ject of dread. He tackled aim on the horse question first. How do you know the ages of all the horses?" q don't" 'How do you know how old Jim Blaine is?' q don't know how old he is'' But you just now said he was thirteen 3'On, I thought he was askin' how old I was.''
 But the witness could be shaken in rCCe of his statements. Whatever hes. itancy or bashfulness he manifested under direct examination passed away and he was as much at home on the stand as if he were on a bronco at a rOdeo.
 Judge Baker asked for a suspensi on of the proceedings wh1la G1e asked the prosecuting witness some quest ons. He took the stand and WAS asked if he was paying Col. J. F. Wilson fee for assisting in the prosecution After a brief skirnish between the lawyers he was permitted to answer that Col. Wilson's presence was the result of a private arrangement.
 The course of the cattle trail from M1tchelPs ranch to the place where the cattle were found and other places incident to the case we're indie csted on a large map spread before the jury. On this map Oatman flats has posi- lon- Oaitman flats took tits name from one of the most horrible massa- cles in Indian history, the murder of the Oatman family by fhe Apach5s in the early fifties. It was followed by the long captivity of Lorenzo D. Oat- man, who afterward became a Metho- dist minister, as his faIdher had been. and his sister, Olive Oatman. The massacre and the subsequent. adven- lures of the two children were written int'o story, bound in bright red cloth and circulated through the east for the edif1cafion and terror of women and children thirty-fve or forty years ago. There was some sort of moral conveyed in the book which had re- ligious vein running through it. It was esteemed a just reward for an upright life that the children of the murdered preacher were at last al lowed to escape. No account seems to have been taken of the original massa- ere in the construction of the moral As late as ten years ago Lore 20 D. Oatmani was featuring through Indiana and Ohio upon hhe manner and cus- toms of the Indian of the south west, and he had the advantage of having had his material from first hands. The first white man to see the mangled bodies of the Rev. MI. LOatman, wife and some of their children was Cap tain Hi Mcdonald of this city, who came up with a wagon train which had been detained at Old Maricopa by the death and funeral of one, of tha partly. MT. Oatman and his family belonged to the train, but fired with fatal inpatience he pushed on alone and so furnished the train with mR- terials for another and a wholesale funeral few miles farther west.