Arizona republican., 1906-03-08
MURDERER BUCKS
 ARIZONA RECORD
4 Los Angeles Agent in Phoenix On a
 Tour of Investigation.

J. P. Kerr of Los Angeles, is stop ping at the Ford. MT. Kerr arrived in the city yesterday morning in the course of an investigation which he is making of the record of Morris Buck the murderer of the wife of C. A. Can field, the Los Angeles millionaire. Mr. Kerr has been associated with Mir Garfield for a number of years.
 Buck is either insane or he is sim ulating insanity. There is considerable doubt as to his mental condition. No Los Angeles physician will announce him insane, some because they do not believe he is insane and others say that 9 decision by them in his favor would be injurious to their practice Former Governor Henry T. Gage has been employed by Garfield as special counsel for the prosecution, but he is not satisfied as to the mental condi- tiOn of Buck. He told Garfield that if he believed him to be insane, all the wealth of the millionaire would not engage him any further in the prose cutiOn.
 Mir. Kerr has had several convers- tons with Buck and believes him to be of sound mind. Buck told him about his wanderings in this territory and he has so far found that his stories were true. In the opinion of Mir. Kerr Bucks memory is too accurate for that Of @ maniac. MT. Kerr has just wis ited Bisbee, where Buck several years agO worked in a mine under another name. MT. Kerr found the man with whom he worked and found that the story of Buck was true in the minutest particulars.
 Among other things Buck told Mr. Kerr was that in 1900 he was working in the Phoenix restaurant in this city and that in a fight with another em- love he was cut in the neck with a cleaver. There is a great scar on the back of his neck. Buck said that he came near dying and that he asked the physician who attended him to give him something to put him out of his misery. At length he recovered but the physician told him that the cut he re- ceived would always affect his mind.
 MT, Kerr began his investigation in the morning, but for a long time he could find no beginning. No one re- membered Buck or any such incident las he had described. Joe Bush, who in 1900, was captain Of the police. could remember nothing about it, but he as sisted MT. Kerr in his inquiries. Late in the afternoon they were directed to Charles Rice who remembered some thing about the affray in the restau- rant. Buck and another attache of the place had a fight over a woman and Buck was cut in the back of the head with a cleaver, but according to his recollection, the injury was not re- garded as a serious one.
 The affray took place at the time the restaurant was located at tie -orner of Jefferson and Center streets about the time that H. Bente sold it. MT. Bente is now living in Los Angeles and MT. Kerr was directed to call upon him as he would probably have a more defi- nite recollection of the circumstances than any one else who can be found.
 MT. Kerr will remain in the city to- day in the hope of finding the physi- clan who attended Buck.
 Buck has not been utterly abandon ed. A fund for his defense has been raised by the walters unions of Los Angeles and San Francisco.