Arizona republican., 1903-04-06

readiness with which the men referred to particular dates. Not one man in a
 thousand a. month afterward could tell
 on what date he had been at a certain place But these men knew where they
 were on the day of the murder. the day
 after, the time of their arrival in Phoe- nix and the day when they had been in Benson. They would not likely have eaten two suppers and two breakfasts
 at the same times.
 | The story that they came to Phoenix
 on a freight train on the day follow 1 ing the murder may be partly true though the officers are inclined to think that it is not but that they came overland and are the two men who
 were seen the day after the murder near the Arizona canal north Of the city It happened also that on the day after the murder word was brought
 to the cffice of the sheriff that two MeXicans were seen camping by the
 railroad track near Beardsley and wer-, acting as if they were waiting for a train. Attention was attc acted to them by the fact that they were car rying no baggage. had no blankets or
 other paraphernaiia such as Mexicans carry when travelling through the country.
 Ii they are the men wanted they will be positively identified on their ar rival in Prescott. There was a witness
 of the murder of whom little has been heard. He was mentioned at the time but at the request of the officials the newspapers kept his name in the background. He had come to Goddard
 station day or two before the killing. He was . sheep herder and had been sent down to the station by the pro
 pTietor of q sheep camp north of there
 where he expected to get work in the course of Q couple of weeks. The man who sent him sent word to NJ. God Gard to give him employment until he should need him.
 i The murGere3s arrived at the sta
 ton about noon and in the course of
 the afternoon they frequently engaged this Mexican in cony.rs;t ton V hich on
 their part was made up ckiahy of
 questions about the people of the sta
 tion. They wanted to know how many people were there and how long they
 were going to stay. They also asked
 about the plan O. the buildings. Only
 one CT two qUestiIns Were asked ar once. Then the murderers would walk sway ard t-a!d 2 ajiov+ conversation pa-
 tween .he.nSs.v= .>.;-r wi, n ,ne; r-ould come rzca oGe asE fer fUT Thar Geca.i4 2sgarcic. -h- H..oit.s <. .:.= i--
 mates of the station
 At the time of the murder the sheep
 herGer was sitting on q bench near the house and as soon as he heard the first shot the purpose uf tke intsrrOga- tories of the afternoon was made clear to him. When he Was asked what he did when he heard riIo shooting, he re piled, "I went" He believed that the murderers would leave no living wit ness behind them, especially one who had had sECh an opportunity to know them again as he had enjoyed. The herder returned to the rann from which he had come to the station and he was found there two days later by Sheriff Roberts. lie was brought to Phoenix and kept here for a week. Only the officials and newspaper man knew that he was in town. About that time several suspects were discovered among them Casimero Rodellas, and they were brought before the herder for identification. He had to look at q suspect only for an instant to be pre- pared to say that h. was not oae of the men and he named the points of difference showing that he had observ- ed the men at Goddard station mar rowly.
 The suspects were confronted by
 Mrs. Goddard, the wife oi one of the murdered men. twice yesterday. The first time she broke down at the sight of them and was unable to say whether
 they were the murierers or not. Later
 in the day she called again, accompan- | ill hy- ,ri1-
 more prolonged look at them when
 they did not know that she was watch
 Ing them. She vas still unable to say
 that they Were the r:en whom she had seen on that awful night at the sta-
 tion- It was hardly expected that she
 could identify them with positiveness.
 It will be remembered that when the
 naurderPrs entered the dining room she 1 was not in the room. When the first shot was fired she ran in hut allrost
 immediately the light was extineuisn-
 ed. Her view Of the slayers if she had
 any at all was only mCmentarv. And 1 then her mind was fixed on a Mexican with a scar for her husband told her ! while he was dying that it was the l scar-faced man that had shot him. 1 There are still other witnesses Oesid
 the Mexican sl eep harder by whom the
 men may be identified. Three or four
 men saw two MeXicans going from the direction of the station after the time
 of the murder though they had not yet i learned that a murder had been CCm-
 l1itted. There is little doubt that those ] two men were the mu:derers and the men who saw them say that they will be able to recognize them when they
 see them again.