Arizona republican., 1909-10-01

liam about year ago of the murder, and where the body could be found As all or my friends know, I am some thing of iosher. and also take great delight in playing practical jokes on my companions. On my first meeting with Pulliam l was favorably impress ed with him, and the more I saw of Tom the better I liked him. When together we were nearly always jest ing with each other. When I told Pull liam of Schwartz having been murder ed by Neill and Woods, he looked upon 1t as wild and improbable story which l had concocted to get the laugh on him. That Neill and Woods would have committed such a cold -blooded murder on such slight provocation seemed so impossible to Pulliam that he absolutely refused to take me ser- iously no matter how earnest I tried to be with him. Sheriff Francis look ed upon the story in pretty much the same way as did Pulliam.
 How did you know that Neill and Woods had killed Schwartz?" the re- porter asked
 As you probably know" replied Olds. schwartz disappeared on the night of September IS, last year. As shall show later, there were circum- stances connected with his disappear ance which led me to believe that he had been murdered, and as an officer went to work on the case On the Sunday morning following the Friday night on which Schwartz had disap- peared, Woods and I were riding over the hill where the body was afterwards discovered. Woods. knowing that I was doing my utmost to get some clue. and that I would most likely succeed in doing so before I quit, broke down and told me that SchwartZ's body was under the ground there, pointing to the grave as he spoke. and then threw himself on my mercy as a friend not to give him away
 Woods Confession
 Woods cried like a child and begged class with himself. and consequently thought that if he took me into his confidence as a friend, I would help him to cover up his crime, no matter how dastardly it had been. I never can describe my feeling when this man, in whom I had had so much confidence. acknowledged to me that he had com mitted murder. and appealed to me to help him to conceal his guilt. It was certainly the most unexpected disclos- ure I ever met with, and l have met with some startling things in my long career as an officer. As rangers, Woods and I had ridden together. eat en together. slept together and had been on such confidential terms. that I regarded him almost as a brother.
 'I felt humiliated to think that one who had been so near to me had stoop- ed to such a cowardly murder. l also thought of the disgrace such a thing would bring on the territorial rangers whom the people are always ready to class as a band of cutthroats because they were in the business of enforcing the law Instead of the words of con- solation Woods had expected from me, I gave him a licking with the rough side of my tongue. l let him know right there and then that I could not sanction such a cowardly murder. even though it had been committed by one whom I had always regarded as a friend I reproached him in terms which doubtless made him feel what a cowardly crime he had committed, tell ing him that I would as soon have taken a two year-old babe out and murdered it as that poor old man.
 Ods Gave Way to Feelings
 "Olds cried like a child and begged me so hard to shield him that it stir red up my feelings to such an extent