Williams news., 1907-09-07
SOME STEALING

operations have been COn1ueQ to the northern portions of the terri tory. He was also, at one time, one of the largest cattle sheep mel in the country. but thieves 'stole him blind" When the writer was superintendent of the territorial prison the Dr came there for the purpose of interviewing a cattle thief he had been primarily inter
 ested in convicting. The fellows name was Hutchinson. For two years he had been foreman on the great cattle and sheep ranges of the Perrin Land X Cattle Company. The pr. was anxious to learn how 2,5OO head of sheep had been taken from a certain corral and spirited iway. He promised Hutchinson Ill the joys of an earthly paradise if he would 'put him next" to the way the thing was done. At first Hutchinson refused to peach" and when urged by the writer to do so. said You do not know Dr. Perrin IS well as I do. His promises art not made to keep" but finally he old him that it was not ? 500 head of sheep that were aken at the time referred to, hut 5000; that they had never been in the corral, but had been herded below They were driven into the timber and divided among the thieves. As they did not have enough to make good division they went back and stole 800 more These were mostly disposed of to the butchers in Prescott and surrounding ca mps
 Perrin stated that he had at ore time 100 COW ponies on the ranch, but they had been stolen down to about 6 or 7. Hutchinson told him of 60 that had been driven into | California, in one band and sold
 Among other bits of information he gave the Dr. was of bunch of so heeves that had been sold to parties in Jerome. At the time those beeves were taken to Jerome there were three men and woman, all employees of the Dr. interested in the transaction. As they spent money freely and as the woman and her husband wished to return l east, they forged the pr. signature to a draft and had money to burn" The Dr. was particularly anxious to know the names of the l parties that were present at the time of the forgery and when told the old man shed tears, for among the names was one of his most trusted employees. Before aving the Dr. pressed Hutchinson to tell him about what was the value of the property taken while he was foreman. After considera ble hesi- tation he said "about SIP 00O' but ! in conversation with the writer he said that S212 900 would not cover the loss as the Dr. mi ghi know if he could get a true state ment of the condition of his herds
 Evidently he did know for he said that his great herds of cattle an.i sheep had almost entirely dis
 appeared and he had nothing but the "Baca Float" left ard probably that would have been gone also but for the rocks that held 1t down
 The Dr. felt particularly y grieved over the loss. of pair of valua ble mules owned by his son and driven to a buck board The son was advised one day, that some of the missing COW ponies were to he found in a certain wood. He drove to the edge of the wood, tied his mules and entered to look for tine horses. Of course they were not there. but hen he returned 10 his buck board his mules were gone
 They had been stolen during the short time he was away from them
 Among his many grievances the pr. told of being in one of the towns on the A. & P. railroad when