Williams news., 1910-04-30

that he was shadOWlng Nelll De- cause he thought he was connect ed with the Babbitt- Poison store robbery and that he was watching Lingo's house because he thought Neill had taken some revolvers from the store and hid them in the house. At the suggestion of Lingo they released him and told him to get out of town immediately and not to come back nor write to Swartz. Neill also remarked that they would "Get old Swartz and every other old detective in the United States and throw them in every old oil tank and water hole in the country" They then left him and he immediately went to the depot and took train out of town and did not return again un- til he heard that his body had been found in a water tank near Will Hams. He also telegraphed to Sheriff Francis that he was very much alive.
 At this point Mrs. w. A. Olds was called and testified that she sent for Woods from the Commerc- ial hotel at Flagstaff. as she want ed to talk with him concerning his case. She said that their conver- sation was lengthy but that there was nothing of importance in it ex cept that at the end of their talk | Woods had remarked that he and Neill had wished a hundred times that they had thrown the old man in the dam instead of burying him up there on the hill where he would be found.
 The prosecution's star witness, w. A. Olds, was called. The ex animation of this witness took up the greater part of one day and part of the next and the testimony was in substance az follows: That he came to Williams on Saturday morning, September 19. 1909 and there found Mir. Woody, who was in search of Swartz. and he helped during that day to look for him. That night he was eating supper with Woods and told him that he believed Swartz had been murder ed and that after court was over they would look the matter up and place whoever done it behind the bars inside of ten days. Woods turned pale and got up in the mid dle of his supper and walked out The next morning he and Woods started for Flagstaff on their horses and when they were about two mile from Williams Woods asked the witness to go over the hill with him as he had something to show him. When they arrived at the top of the hill Woods jumped of his horse and said, Billy, you wouldn't turn a friend in, would you2" Olds told him that he would not; then Wood said, You have been looking for old Swartz; there he is under that tree; Neill and put him there" Wood then cover Cd up the portion of the body that remained uncovered and asked that he not tell Neill anything abou1 what had happened. The witness said he gave Wood a good scoring but on account of his love for the territorial rangers he could not ar rest the man but immediately re- ported the matter to the sheriff. He stated that the two of them ther l rode on to Challendar, but Wood lost his gun and they turned bacl to look for it. When they found i it was getting so late they returned to Williams and went to Flagstaff the next morning on the train OIds then corroborated Woody at to the conversation in the sheriff'i office, and also their conversation with Neill in Williams. He ex plained his letters to the Gazette in which he scored the sheriff's of fee of this county, as being merely