Arizona republican., 1905-07-31
IDENTIFICATION LACKING
But Livingstone Murder Suspects are
 StilLin Custody.

There seems to be about as much mystery as ever concerning the identi- ty and whereabouts of the murderers of sam Plunkett and Ed. Kennedy at Livingstone. The two suspects ar rested at Red Rock and taken to Globe on the partial Identification of Eugene Shute. a brother-in Jaw of Plunkett, are still held pending further develop ments. but they have not been satis- factorily identified and claim that when the time comes they can estab- fish an unGuestionable alibi.
 There was a little excitement in Tempe on Saturday, but nothing came of 1t. A Mexican who had been em- ployed by Jim Sturgeon at Roosevelt and who claimed to have some ac- quaintance with the men suspected, reported to Mr. Sturgeon at Tempe that he had seen this man for a mo- ment on Friday night. He was fol lowed up and arrested on Saturday and when the man who caused suspi- ciOn to lie against him confronted him for Identification he said he was not the same man he had seen the night before. The matter was dropped on the ground that possibly the informer was under the influence of liquor
 
 was discharged. There is a possibility though that the informer was honest in his benef that he was one of the men but too much afraid of him to speak up. But his conduct was such that local opinion gave the suspect the benefit of the doubt.
 Concerning the Globe suspects the Silver Belt which reached here yes terday says: They came without ob- jection and gave no trouble. They claim to be able to prove that at the time of the murder they had been at work on the Southern Pacific and can account for their whereabouts for scv- eral days before and after the mur- der. At first they told conflicting sto- ries but that may have been the re- suit of faulty interpretation as they speak no English. They will be held until they prove their story and until others from Salt river can be brought here who should be able to establish their identity if they have ever worked on the canal or dam.
 "A local resident who saw the sus- poets this morning says they are two men whom he saw on Sunday. July 16, in the Wedge saloon. He followed them down the track to a shanty be- low town and then went for the off cers. Cy Byrne and Peterson went with him to the shanty but the men could not be found. He says most pos itively that the men now here in jail are the ones he saw.
 'The men claim that they were nev- CT in Globe before, did not work in Roosevelt or Salt river and that they worked eighteen days in June and six in July at Tempe for the Maricopa &, Phoenix road. They gave numbers by which they were known and the fore mans name. Under Sheriff Heron has written to the railroad people to verify this statement They claim to have left Tempe by way of Kelvin for Red Rock and were arrested on their arrival at the latter place. They had a few dollars in money. but no wea- pOns, watch or other discriminating links. A third man. who was with them. had a bundle, hut he was turn ed loose and no examination made of his belongings.
 Conductor sam Shale. of the pas senger train which left Globe on Fri day morning after the murder. says that on his arrival at Bowie he saw two Mexicans get off the brake beams of one of the cars He noted particularly as he says he never saw Mexicans on a brake beam before The men he describes hardly answer to the aD- pearance Of the two under arrest and MT. Shale thinks the men who beat their way on his train went to Fl Paso and on into Mexico; that they were the men who committed the crime arG it may be that Officer Mckinney IS on the trail at that end of the theory."
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