Arizona republican., 1901-09-12

ing a good long look at Packwood, without winking. swore that he had never seen him before. He admitted having seer F'rsLeroa. He knew he kept a store but he located him in an other part of the town. H. also ad- mittsd that he had sold a horse unde- much the same circumstances as those described by Packwood, but the pur- chaser was not Packwood the sale was made at another time. and the horse was not the kind of horse that had been described. though its color was the same. red.
 The Indian horse had what is known as the scissors or Desert RiV- CT Indian brand. At first the boy said his horse had no brand. though he said he had notoiced a mark that looked like a figure '6' in the hair on the front hip on the left side" A figure '6, by the way. is not greatly unlike q part of the scissors" brand. All St. Lotus answers were reasonably prompt. but they appeared to b- preceded by a cal culation as to their probable effect on him. Notwithstanding his innocent and almost angelic appearance there was q prevalent conviction that he was not telling the truth
 He said the horse he had sold he had won at rafle.
 With the evidence of Packwood and Fisueroa it seemed that a pretty clear case had been made against the boy but after all things were in a chaotic shape at this stage. Accepting thei- evidence as true. the horse had only been traced to him backward. He had not vet been fully connected with the theft Neither had his testimony diff fered so widely from that of the tel ritory's witnesses that a hole might not be found to crawl out of if he were gotten into a corner. Beside. Redwood did not make q good impression on the stand. His failure to produce the bill of sale was against him. There was q reasonable doubt that such q document ever existed.
 Justice Burnett then took the matter up and went into details regarding that raflie. The versatility of the youth was but to a test. but h came out Of it in q splendid manner On the spur of the moment with the meager material he ! had at hand he built up d story which l if not without defects would certainly hang together.
 He said that about six weeks or a month before Christmas he was in th. | front yard of his home. Firth and Van 1 I8ureH streets, when a shabbily dressed man came along the street and told him 1 there was going to b. a rafle A sick man had a horse which he was going | to dispose of that way at 25 cents a chance. St Louis said he joined a ! throng of from ten to twenty persons i who had invested in the raffie which was held in the open air about block | south of th- West End grocery. De scribing the raffie he said the check | CTS (probabiy meaning dominoes) were thrown "on the counter" It was | thought by the prosecution that the young man had fatally erred here. but l without any embarrassment whatever { he said that rough counter had been l made by laying couple of boards on ! four stakes which had been driven into lthe ground. He said he could go di- rectly to the place where the rafii- was held: h. was not acquainted with any of the men whom he had met there bu; 1 would know some of them if he should see them. The justice said he believed that q rafiie in the open air in any neishborhood. even if it were not pat Fonized by any of the people of that netshborhood. would attract some Ioca att ntion. especially if the prize had been won by ten year old boy H. directed Deputy Sheriff Gibson. to take young St. Louis to the scene of the ratIie. Rev. pr LapsIey A. McAfee and
 
 this singular Case went along The boy appeared willing and even glad to go He directed the expedition to the ve.y spot where the rafile took place. He showed them the very piece of req estate where the gamesters had gath. CT d. There was no counter. it wa. true. no hole. in the ground where tn, stakes had been. but there was corrob. orative earth. He also pointed triumph. antly to the identical spot where tn, anxious horse had stood while his far. was being decided.
 Inquiry in the neishborhood failed te discover any one who remembered an, such conference as young St. Loui. said he had attended there. His ex animation will be resumed at min, io'clOck this morning.
 What to do with him is a problem He can not in humanity be sent to jail If l7ft-outside he will be encouraged [, continue on the career he has begun $, early and he will eventually find hi
 way to the penitentiaTy.