Arizona republican., 1909-04-28
SUPERSTITION MINERS
 FORGED 10 SEPARATE
ONE TO THE ASYLUM, THE
 OTHER TO THE POOR FARM
The Disposition in Probate Court of the Cases of SiIverIoeks and
 Goldleaf.

ChdrleS SllNerlocKS ana CndrleS | Goldleaf were examined in probate court yesterday on charges of insan- ity The former was committed to the asylum and the latter was sent to the county hospital. These men are the twoN more or less mysterious miners who have been operating in the Super stition mountains for the last twelve years.
 They are natives of Sweden, uncle and nephew. Silverlocks, the uncle, ex plained that his right name was Carl Axel and that of his nephew Carl Malm. The metallferous names by which they have been known in this community were probably assumed by them or given to them on account of the color of their hair. That of Sil verlocks was of light hue, while that of Goldleaf is a little more than au- burn.
 At the time of their arrest and for some weeks before they had been lodging in a barn in Mesa They had gone into the Superstition country more than a dozen years before. Axel, ! who had been a rancher in Wyoming, had brought a large sum of money. y, | and had invested it in the operation of a mine of supposed richness which they had located in the Expectations. That money having been exhausted | they exercised their credit in Mesa to the amount of 5000 more.
 Silverlocks used to make occasional | journeys out of the country, and it was the common belief that he took great quantities of gold out with him, but for some time it has been the com mon belief about Mesa that the prop erty was without any value whatever.
 For years both men have been re- garded as queer Since their stay in Mesa the mental obliqueness of Silver locks became more marked, and one night a man sleeping near the barn in which the two men were lodging got awake to find Silverlocks creeping to- ward him with a revolver
 He developed an imaginary griev- ance against pr. Chandler, James Burk who has a cattle range in the neigh bOrhOod of the mine and various other persons about Yuma. He believed that Dr. Chandler was preparing to electro cute him and that MT. Burk had
 
 the mine.
 At the beginning of his examination yesterday his answers were clearly re- sponsive. He said that he was sixty two years of age. He described his arrival in the United States, his set tlement in the west, his ranch life and success in Wyoming and his coming to Arizona. As soon as the examina- tion reached the mine, the lunacy of Silverlocks came to the front rapidly.
 He told of sister at Mesa whom he had not seen, though he had heard her voice. He did know how he learn ed that she was there but he knew 1t. He had not seen her since he left her a child of nine in Sweden. He told of the attempts to electrocute him at Mesa, and of the mysterious manner in which he had been smoked out of q barn there.
 His halluciRation regarding his sis ter may be explained by the fact that a young man by the name of ChristOf- ferson, who was lately killed at Tempe had received some inquiry from wo- man in Sweden about her brother, who was undoubtedly Silverlocks. Christofferson began his investigation, found him, gave him some money, and a few days later was killed.
 The court and the physicians did not have to study long over the case of Silverlocks.
 That of Goldleaf was more difficult. He seemed rather sick than insane. His answers were coherent, and it was decided that he was not insane, though his mind was not strong and active. Some years ago he lost one eye in Col Orado, and he is now almost blind as to the other