Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-11-30
SLAYER'S FEARS
 WERE UNf|;0:!UNDED
MAN WHO HAD SURRENDERED HIMSELF AT PRESCOTT FOR MURDER HAD BEEN FOR
 GOTTEN

sheriff Charles w. Dyer of Twil
 Falls, Idaho, arrived in the city yester
 day after W. T. Stratham, who surren
 dered himself few days ago to tn,
 sherif's office at Prescott, saying tha
 he was wanted in Twin Falls county fol
 the murder of Frank Tuskeno yea
 ago last March, says the Phoenix Re
 publican. He told the sheriff that h,
 was tired of being a fugitive from jus
 tice. He said that wherever he went
 he imagined that officers were lookina
 for him, and he was therefore anxious
 to be taken back and have the matter disposed of finally.
 In order that there might be no mis understanding, he told Sheriff Lowry to say in his telegram to the Twin Falls authorities that the man whom he killed was an Italian by the name of l" Baby He also gave assurance that he would return to Idaho without the formality of extradition.
 Sheriff Dyer said yesterday that as matter of fact Stratham was not very badly wanted. At the time of the murder the territory within which it was committed was Cassia county but since the county has been divided and Twin Falls has been formed out of if. There was never much of a search for Stratham. The evening after the kill ing a deputy sheriff who was stationed at Twin Falls made perfunctory hunt for him and within a day or two the search was abandoned. After the new county was formed there were so many other things to occupy the minds of the citizens that no thought was given to Stratham, and when the telegram an nouneing his surrender was received there was some hesitation about going to the expense of coming after him.
 Sheriff Dyer telegraphed to Sheriff Lowry asking if Stratham had com mitted any crime here. He received a reply saying that he had not; if the reply had been different the Idaho au- thorities would not have bothered themselves any further about him.
 But Sheriff Dyer made up his mind to come and notwithstanding the as- surance of Stratham that lie would r%- turn to Idaho without extradition. the sheriff, to guard against change of mind, procured papers. They were hon. pred by Governor Kibbey yesterday and the sheriff left for Prescott this 
 Sheriff Dyer. who was a policeman at Twin Falls at the time of the kill ing and was familiar with the eircum- stances of it. He said it was done without provocation and without nal. ice. Stratham had been drinking and one night he left his lodging hosse, saying that he was going to kill some one. The first person he met was the Italian, whom he shot in the back.
 Stratham had lived about that neigh. borhood for some time, an employee of various construction camps He went by the nickname of Georgy George, though it was known that his right name was Stratham. He was not a bad citizen; he drank to excess at times and at such times he was apt to en- gage in fighting, but he had never man ifested homicidal tendency. The sher- if said that it was very doubtful he would be convicted.
 Sheriff Dyer says that the Twin Val ley country is booming now in antici- patton of the completion of great irrigation enterprise by which water will be furnished to 275,000 acres of land. It is a private enterprise and the water is being taken out of Snake river.