Arizona republican., 1905-07-19
THE LIVINGSTONE nURDERERS
Incidents Immediately SncceediDs s
 Their Discovery.

Though nothing was heard yester- day of the chase after the murderers of Plunkett and Kennedy near Living
 stone. Engineer L. C. Hill was here from Roosevelt and gave some fur
 cher particulars concerning the incl dents immediately following the dis cOvery of the crime. Mir Hill as the chief representative Of the govern ment in those parts is determined that Roosevelt shall be known as a decent and orderly camp in the future just as it has been in the past and in re- spect of that statement it should be mentioned that there is not now in all Arizona a town of equal population where there is less disorder, notwith- standing it is many miles from the seat of territorial, county or munich pal government. Whisky selling is prohibited and there is very little bootlegging, and it is the unwritten law of the camp that if q robbery is committed or other heinous offense, the guilty shall be brought to justice regardless of expense. The disciplin
 ary effect on the whole community more than justifies any necessary eX- penditure of funds and il is the boast of the RooseveItians that life and property are as safe there as they can M
 Hill took an active personal interest in the case of the PIunkett episode and had the crime been discovered a few hours sooner there is no doubt that the guilty men would have been brought to justice.
 Plunkett had a business engagement with the reclamation oHces which he failed to keep and messenger was sent to his ranch. He rode all over the ranch and rode up to the house yelling loudly for the inmates to come out. As no one answered he thought it useless to go in the house, assuming that nobody was at horne. As both the murde: ed men were inside he noted nothing unusual to excite his suspicion. It was d second messenger that discovered the crime which wss then forty-eight hours old. As soon as the facts were reported to MT. Hill he detailed Al Sieber to get two of the best Apache traiIers in the camp and there are many of them employed in various constructions going on. With in an hour after the first news came MT Hill, Al Sieber. the trailers, Ran ger Peterson. a deputy sheriff and va riOus others from Roosevelt were on the ground, armed with Winchesters, etc. One Indian went each way, cir cling the premises, and in a few min tes one of them had located the piece of iron from a wagon tongue with which the heads of the men were crushed, and other things which showed conclusively that he had the trail. They immediately followed it up and as noted in previous relations it led back along the power canal to- ward the settlement, through a tun- mel and along the canal, first on one side and then the other, and finally along a lateral ditch. Along this trail Mir. Hill himself found one of the bloody shirts that had been discard ed by the murderers. The posse re- traced it's steps to the settlement and to Mexican bunk house where it was at first suspected the murderers had been secreted. A careful search was made and a bloody shirt was found in one of the hunks but the owner proved beyond any doubt that it was his own shirt, that he shed his own blood in a fist fight not long before and had numerous witnesses to prove it so that clue was abandoned.
 MT. Hill then directed MT. Sieber to start the Indians on the trail again with the injunction that they were to follow it to the end of the earth if necessary and get the men that were making the tracks. He told them that whenever they were hungry and had a chance to eat, to eat and charge it to him and that in the meantime their pay was going on just the same. Ran ger Peterson, MT. Sieber and others followed Up the Indians to reinforce them and make any arrests that might be necessary and no time was lost as indicated by their early arrival in Globe, where the murderers undoubt edly took the train to Bowie. MT Hill has heard nothing from the posse since then although hefnre he left