Arizona republican., 1910-09-26
SLIPPED OUT
 WITH SLAYERS Sheriff Thompson Takes MurderGrs Across Country THE AUTOMOBILE ROUTE
To Avoid Any Reception by Enthusiastic Parties That Might Be Rendered Steele and Stewart Upon Their Arrival at Globe.

Sheriff Henry Thompson of Globe and Deputies c. NJ Dean and w. P Drew left yesterday afternoon by au- tomobiIe for Globe with James Steele and William Stewart, the murderers of Fred Kibbe and A. P. Hillpot. The officers arrived the night before with their prisoners from the north The sheriff announced then that he would leave for Globe on the Arizona Eastern last night. He also stated that he would go out with them on a morning train but he evidently did not intend to do either
 His real purpose was to go across the country and he divulged it to no one It was not known at the of flee of the sheriff that he had ar ranged an automobile trip until in the middle of the afternoon he and his deputies called for the prisoners. The automobile was then waiting in the rear of the jail
 once the prisoners were in the machine ironed as to their ankles and manacled, and the two deputies on guard, the auto with Mana ger Arendt at the wheel and Sheriff Thompson seated beside him darted up Jefferson street and was on its way.
 The sheriff was desirous of avoid ing such a crowd as would assemble on his arrival at Globe by train of the hour and minute of whose coming everybody would be apprised. He can now choose his own time for arrival as well as the route by which he will reach the Gila county jail Some word had been received that a lynching would be attempted on the coming of the prisoners The sheriff had received warning telegram at Flagstaff. But it is i'm probable that any such attempt would be carried very far. Sheriff ThOmp- son is well known there and it is known that before he would surren- der the men for whom he had tra- veled so far and endured so much there would be much more blood let ting than has already been spilled The sheriff expected to reach Globe about midnight last night.
 Steel and Stewart were a sorrowful pair when they were brought out of jail yesterday afternoon to begin what in all probability Is their last earthly journey, not counting the short one from the Gila county jail to the scaffold. They had not recOv- cred from the hardships which ended with their capture at Adamana on Thursday night Their clothes were crumpled and their haggardness of appearance was increased by a week s growth of beard.
 Their shoes were broken and held together with strings, showing the rough journey over rocks after they had been compelled to abandon their horses when the Apache trailers and and take to rough ground where horses could not go.
 The prisoners looked neither to the right nor the left as they passed out of the corridor with a small audience lined up on each side curious to get a view of the men who had done such an atroeious thing. The carriage ot the men was soldierly, Steele walking especially erect. In other circumstance and peter groomed he would not be a bad looking fellow. A vandyke beard, somewhat ragged now for want of care for a week or more. lent him an air of distinction. In proper gart he might pass for young lawyer or a young physician.
 Stewart is of a different type He has the erect carriage of one who has seen service in the regular army but his face, though it might not be taken for that of a criminal, would in any surroundings not impress one as be- ing above the average.
 Sheriff Thompson who had hardly taken his gaze from the men from the moment of their capture until he