The St. Johns herald., 1897-06-05
PARKER AND MILLER
Safely Lodged Again in Jail at
 Prescott,

The following from the Prescott Jour- nal-Miner gives the particulars of the
 manner of bringing back Parker and
 Miller and placing them again in Pres colt jail. A term of the district court will be held in Prescott commencing on next Monday, and we hope these two individuals will recslYe the punishment they so richly deserve. It is greatly to the credit of the people of Prescott that they did not take the execution of the law into their own hands, but de. cided to let the court and jury have the disposal of these two characters who so richly deserve hanging.
 Itwas three weeks yesterday that three des- perate men succeeded in making their escape from the county jail.
 little after midnight yesterday morning two of them, Parker, the train robber and murderer of Lee Norris and L. C. Miller, the alleged for ger. were returned to their old quarters They were brought in by Sheriff Ruffner, of this county, and Sheriff ameron, of Coconino coun- ty, both of whom have been in pursuit of the former ever since their escape
 The storyo Parker's capture by s. s. Preston snd ten Navajo Indians has already been told in these columns.
 It became noised around on Saturday evening that the prisoners would be in on the train due at l0:S0 p. Tn aud it naturally attracted large crowd, to the depot. It went there solely out of curiosity, though, and not with any designs against the prisoners
 While Under Sheriff Dillon felt reasonably ! confident that no demonstration would be made against the outlaws, he took the precaution to advise the officers to have the train stop at the Half Way house, where carriages were in wait ing for them.
 The train was an hour and half late. and it came through Whipple at & low rate of speed. and without whistling as usual. The prisoners were transfrrred to the carriages, and hurried drive made for the jail, The train was detained there until the carriages had reached the corner ! of Mt. Vernon avenue and Gurley street, when it pulled into the depot
 The crowd, however, had been advised in the meantime of what was going on, and started for the court house. AS the sound of footsteps were heard coming up the street, Miller re- marked, My God, they are coming to hang us" Parker fired of volley Of profanity, coupled with an obscene epithet, at him, representing him for his cowardice, at the s.me time remark ing, You can't die but once any way" As the prisoners were taken through the entrance lead ing through the jail, Parke cast rather senSi tive look up the stairway, where he had so cru. ely shot down Lee Norris, and where a big crowd of people had assembled Aside from this, his actions were cool, and before being ta- ken from the carriage, he even requested the officers to take them for a drive around town to give them some fresh air.
 Parker, itis said, expressed to Sheriff Ruffner very forcibly, his regrets at not getting an op- portunity to shoot him. He also told him that had not the sheriff reached the camp of his | (Parker's) captors at the time he did, he would have made another break for liberty, and confi- dently believed he could have succeeded in get ting away from them, as he was not tied and he had an opportunity to get a gun. He was only waiting, he said. ts get his supper aud to be sociable with his captcrs before making the attempt
 He told Sheriff Cameron that he will not be hanged, neither will he be at court when his case comes up, but just what he meant by this remark is not known
 In the Lynx creek fight on the Sunday even ing that they escaped, Parker was shot in the leg below the knee. It was spent ball that struck him and pr. duced only flesh wound, which has about heaIed up He says that the Mexican was more seriously wounded. having been shot through the ieshy part of the thigh
 Miller was not shot at all. and none of the shots 1 fired by Jailor Meador took effect Yesterday morning, F. G Brecht and one of his employees went to the jail, at Sheriff Ruff l ners request, and riveted heavy steel shackles on Parker and Miller and on Rogers and Thomp- son charged with complicity in the train rob- bery. and they will hereafter be closely guarded Parker com plainsd that he was given an ola and rusty pair of leg bracelets, while the others were given shining ones, but beyond this he wss silent and U2commUniea:ivs,