Arizona republican., 1897-12-21
THE INNOCENCE OF SUES.
His Perfect Aibi Established by a
 Dozen Witnesses.

If any doubt regarding the inup- cence of B. Sues of the murder of P. F. Lynch week ago yesterday morn- ing existed yesterday morning it was all removed on the return of Deputy Sheriff Boyd from San Bernardino, &C., companied by the accused. Sues had fairly blazed his way to California and while none of the persons he met on his why knew him by name, every body remembered and identified him as having been at the various places at the time he said he was there. Agent Waddell of the Southern Pacific at Maricopa remembered when he rode up to the station on Sunday afternoon a week ago. The agent rode his wheel about the station, sold Sues a tickef to San Beunrdino. checked his wheel for him and wss almost constantly with him until he went of duty at 10 o'clock on Sunday night. As soon as Agent Hill ard Deputy Sheriff Comp tom of Tempe, whose stories have already been printed in Tn Republican, saw him they recognized him, though he YVES differently dressed, as the wheelman who stopped at the station on Sunday morning and asked for water. If any thing else were wanting to establish Sues alibi the ticket he traveled on could be obtained. He will be given an examination before Justice John stone today and will no doubt be d 's- charged at once. The next prob ern presenting itself Is how will he get back to San Bernard.np. It is hougat that under the peculiar circumstances s of the case, the entire absence of any evidence connecting him with the death of Lynch, that the board of su- pervisors will pay his fare
 He was not only willing, but anxious to return to Phoenix to confront the charge against him. He tried to bor- row money to pay the fare of himself and deputy sheriff in order that he would not have to wait ultil an officer from Phoenix arrived.
 He and Deputy Sheriff Boyd re- u ned like travelling companions, So that their true relations to each other wsre not suspected by their fellow passen- gers. Sues has undergone no deten- tion since his arrival, but has sat about the sheriff's offices like a guest.
 Speaking of his arrest last night, he rd r charged with Lynkh's murder I was at frs. heaGt-broken, but as soon as I found out that I was to be arrested and brought back tN Phoendx, I felt cool and easy and glad, because I knew I could prove my innocence. As soon as was arrested our daily paper, the Free Press, came out with an ar ticle about me under big headlines. The editor said I had the countenence Of a murderer. The next day he came up to see me and admitted that I wash t the man he thought I was"
 Su.s explained, by the way, an in- consistency which appears in his let ter to Frank Black, printed in The Re ! I1S W1OuC lllZtl IO SUN Ou the train at Gila Bend. Before leav- ing Phoenix he told Mr. Black that h.: intended to travel that far by wheel
 Mir. Black told him he could not do it. When he wrote him he saw nc harm in eXaggera&ing his cyclir per formance to the extent of seventy-five miles, He was terrified afterward when he learned of the tragic event that occurred after he left, and when he thought what an awful lot of trou- ble that harmless little fib might cause him in the way of making explana- tions. If, for instance, he had been obliged to prove that he took the train at Maricopa he would have been han. dieappeh by his written statement tha