The herald., 1897-02-10
The OWNER OF THE CLUB
Is Said to Have Been a Man Called
BILLY the Kid"
The Detectives Say They Have Dead Sure
Case
Tho Lott Hat, Fragment Of Torn Cloth and
Broken Club VIII Bring
Mrrderers to
Justice

After long and patient search the de-
| tectives were last evening enabled to de-
clare that they have not only discovered
| the murderers of James Bellew, but
| have them in custody, and have, besid1;,
sufficient evidence to convict their men
Of a most cowardly and unprovoked
murder. 1t will be remembered that on
Saturday night, January %, James a.
! Bellew and his uncle, Mat Howerton,
while walking at Alameda and Second
! streets, We're set upon by two thugs who
! beat Bellew to death and would have
| similarly treated Howerton had he not
! taken to flight and escaped with but a
slight bruse from the billiard cue club
that had felled his young relative.
/ Since then the whole detective force
| has been working day and night to find
| the perpetrators of the act, but owing to
! an evident disinclination of relatives to
tell all they knew of the dead mans
movements the efforts were sadly hand
| icapped. Clue after clue was run to
| earth to be finally discarded and the
matter began to be considered among
the mysterious. On the night of Febru-
| airy Sd Detectives Bradish and Steele
received information that colored man
named VIII Warner was the owner of
! the hat that was found at the scene of
| the murder and also wore a coat from
which was torn the scrap of cloth that
| had been left on the street by the fleeing
murderers. The detectives located the
fellow ard watched his room by night.
/ They ha also received information that
another co!ored man, one Manuel Brown,
known as Billy the Kid" was Warmers
companion, and occasionally went to the
room that the detectives were engaged
in Watching
That night Brown did not show up but
| Warner went to his room in the Rich
mond and lay down to sleep with his
clothes on. The detectives hoped to
/ catch both the backbirds at once, but
Brown did not show up. Positive in the
knowledge that Warner was the owner
Of the incrlmina ting hat the detectives
arrested him and smuggled him into the
city prison without booking him. That
, was last Thursday.
Then, as Detective Steele has taken
sick Detectives Bradish and Auble went
to work on the evidence. They found
where Warner had cut up and discarded
vest made of the same cloth that was
in the coat from which the tell-tale frag-
ment had been torn. Other cumulative
evidence has been secured and the de-
tectives are positive they can connect
Warner with the crime.
Next, was to find the companion. 1t
was from the first an accepted fact that
two men were engaged in the crime.
The ciub-a walking stick made of a
billiard cue. was yet to be accounted for,
ara as 1t was the weapon with which
the deed was done there was need of
finding who owned it or who welded it
on that night. Witnesses were found
who positively identified the club as the
property of Brown, or BILLY the Kid"
These witnesses declare they cannot be
mistaken. Billy the Kid it will be
remembered, was the colored man who
went into the bagnio on Alameda street
where Bellew and Howerton were talk
ing to saddle colored siren on that
fatal night, and he was from the first
suspected of some knowledge if not ac-
tual completely in the crime, But Billy
the Kid" skipped out the Monday fol-
lowing the Saturday night when the
tragedy occurred.
When the detectives found they wanted
to interview that colored fellow they
found him net but they learned that he
had gone hence to Yuma. A telegraphic
inquiry sent to Yuma brought the infor-
nation from the chief of police that
DioNll IidU Soilc W IJcdtseS. II TCiIl l1dL
place the man was traced to Phoenix
and the police of that place could not
locate him.
Yesterday Detective Auble, who, with
Detective Hawley, has been working on
the case from the start, received a tip
that the much wanted .-frican was at
Tucson. A telegra phic message was at
once sent thither to the chief Of police
and last evening word came hack that
the man was caught and Gagged Today
application for extraditon papers will
be made and as soon as they arrive from
the north one of the detectives who have
been engaged on the case will depart for
Tucson to bring back the prisoner.
AWAITING INSTRUCTIONS
TUCSON Ariz.. Feb 9.--Chief of Po-
lice Oaks of this city today arrested
Manuel Brown, alias BILLY the Kid
colored on the charge of murder, on
telegram from Chief of Police j. NJ
Glass Of Los Angeles. Brown strenu-
ously denied being the man, but finally
weakened stating he was present al the
murder but had no hand in the killing
and left Los Angeles to avoid being a
witness. The murderer he says, is in
Los Angeles. He is held awaiting in
structions from the California authori-
iAc