Arizona republican., 1906-09-09
ALLEGED THltF AND
 FORGER BOUND OVER
Identification of Body of Han Killed
 by Santa Fe Train.

The hearing ofsS. L. Badilla, charged
 with forgery. was held before Justice of i the Peace Johnstone yesterday after
 noon at 3 o'clock The chief witness in ! the case was the bartender where
 Badilla had passed the check Badilla l himself claimed to know nothing about ! the affair but he was positively identi- 4 fled by the bartender and the circum-
 stances were dead against him. He | was h-ld to the grand jury in 5000 bail | and not being able to secure it was taken back to jail.
 ] An hour later the justice listened to | the case of William Across, the Indian charged with the theft of d horse, sad
 de and bridle about a year ago. A
 number of Indian witnesses were pres
 ent. as was MT. Morrell and his son. 1 from whom the horse was stolen. Across admitted that the horse had been found in his possession together
 with the saddle but claimed that the saddle had been bought by him from d | Mexican and the horse he had claimed from another Indian on the grounds that it belonged to the Mexican from whom he bought the saddle. He ex- pected to return the animal to its rightful owner and would have done so
 had he only been given time. He didn't say how much time he required and his attention was called to the fact that he had mad just a year in which to perform that act. Other circum- stances of the case made it evident to Justice JOhnstone that he had the right man and he was held to the grand jury at $500 bail.
 Across is a pretty well educated In dian but comes from bad family. or nf nlaer.s nf fpr fIxr are bad He is d twin, his brother be- 'ng Silas Bearhands. Silas has d past and number of years ago had con siderable trouble in court hut since that experience has lec a :airiy decent life. It is suspected, however that 10th ne and. Across have had something 10 do with the recent case Tn Tempe where d couple of Indians forged an order of sale and sold to Teeter Bros a bunch of cattle which were claimed the next day by other Indians. Teeter Bros. eventually lost the cattle as we'll as the money they had paid for them The two brothers are both first class penmen and write better hand than the average business man or newspaper man either for that matter While that part of the question is merely suspicion on the part of the judge just out Of curiosity Across was asked to write his name. He old so and the style of it was very similar to that of the forged orders that reeter Bros. ac- cepted Indian police are still working cn the Tempe case and it is just barely possible that both Across and his brother are implicated in it.
 Justice Johnstone yesterday made an interesting discovery in the case of the man who was killed near Alhambra by a train Thursday night and one that positively identifies the dead man as Carmel Romero. Romero had been given his time at the sugar factory where he was working al the lime kiln. last Saturday afternoon and had cashed the check at Glendale. The amount paid him was s3325. Friends of his re- member that he started for Phoenix later in the day and has not been seen since. They remember the clothes ha wore and the fact that they compare with the pieces that were found with the remains makes it almost positive that he was the victim The clotbinc found had spots of lime on if which adds to the conviction that the dead man is no other than Romero He had a mother living in Prescott These facts were learned yesterday by Judge Johnstone from the justice of the peace at Glendale