Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-09-06
JUDGE LING RETURNS
Why Arizona Was Unable to EStradite
 Murderer.

Murderer.
 District Attorney Ling arrived home yesterday from New Mexico, stopping of day st Flagstaff, he gives an interesting account ot h's trip to our sister territory, Tor the purpose of demanding the body oi the man held at Santa Fe. supposed to be the Camp Verde murderer.
 He says that had it not been Tor misstep on the part of the sheriff of Union county, New MeIicO, the man he was after would have bees taken to Trinidad, Colorado, and from that state could have been extra diled by Arizona without any trouble whatever. As 1t was the sheriff turned the prisoner over to United States marshal Of New Mex leo, which c.Jsed all avenues of e1- tradition. for the time at least.
 Judge Ling says at Santa te be personally talked with the accused for ever three hours, and gained sui 6cient information from his own lips together with a description of the property he possessed at the time of the railroad hold up, to connect him directly with the Camp Nefde trag- edy. The prisoner gave the namesoi ' Tom Ketchum. While he stated that be was never ID this section of Arizona, this was provsd to be : false by the statement which the i two men in jail al Flagstaff make to : the contrary, viz., that Ketchum was seen by them in Tonto Rasin soon after the Camp Verde deed, aud they readily recognized the
 photo shown them by Judge Ling
 and further said 1t was that oi
 Bishop. This latter name was evi.
 dently assumed by Ketchum, and these two men under arrest st Flag
 staG are probably the only people
 Ketchum met in his flight From
 Camp Verde.
 Being pushed to the wall with
 ques tiOns, and while listening tO the
 reading of the warrant by Deputy
 Davis, Ketchum became suddenly
 interested and displayed consider
 able nervousness of the limbs.
 Ketchum, Judge Ling says, wal
 badly wounded, blood poison be
 ing apparent as result of his gut
 shot wounds, and but little hop,
 was had for his recovery. Realizing
 this Ketchum said he would, beior'
 the end came. make full confession
 and unrsyel all deeds he was sup
 posed to be associated with. H'
 had made two attempts at sulcid'
 and failed in each, however, so tber' is very little probability be will tel
 anything, IS his criminal career IS hard one aud covers long series O
 crimes from murder to robbery. Judge Ling further stated tha Ketchum had a good lace, and thA none ot the characteristic makeul of bravado being noticeable, sn' though not illitsra'e possessed al offhsnd mode of expressing himself He said, after listening to adescrlp ton of the property found CD hiu
 and that possessed by the Cam Verde murderer also. Why,
 couldn't beat that description my self.
 Judge Ling has several of tn photographs taken of ketchum 2 jail, and they will be sent to Cam Verde for Identification.
 , Ketchum is not, however. th Q original Black Jack, and persol ally says so himself. Jack as hs l been stated repeatedly by this paPe | was killed over three years ago. Sine - that time, ketchum has been a 1 times referred 10 as the origins ? article.
 He is more familisrly known, hoV ( ever, as Big Nose" while his part ner travels under the title of "Littl Q Nose
 At any rate he belonged to a d. ? termined band of outlaws who hay infested tbe southwest for year l acting some times in concert, and 6 other times individually. And it e believed that one of the side triI was that which was made by TOl Ketchum to Camp Verde, and th' 1 he was advised before band that | - could proftably rob by murder, an b accordingly carried the plot out ' far as he was able, single handed. Sheriff Mupds is stlil in the fel' Q and somewhere in Western Ne g Mexico. on a mission of importanc s it is said, with thIs Arizona crime.