Weekly journal-miner., 1910-07-13

In OharieS nay arTeSleu Neuneo- day afternoon at his home at Orc | Fino, Sheriff J. w. Smith is con- fident that he has the party guilty | of the murder of MT. and Mrs. l George MahaTd. and that the mys- tery which has shrouded these atroc | ious crimes will be solved by the evidence that will be submitted when Ray is arraigned for his pre- liminary examination. The sheriff is confident that the testimony of many parties now being summoned to attend the preliminary hearing of Ray will form chain of eireum stantial evidence pointing, beyond doubt. to the accused man as the guilty one.
 The complaint upon which the warrant for Rays arrest was based, was sworn to by Edwin Braun, a resident of Oak Creek. Although Braun and Ray have lived several years almost twenty miles apart, it is said that they have been warm friends Braun apparently is in pos session of some evidence pointing to Ray as being guilty of the Ma hard murders. The officers refuse to divulge the nature of Braun's testimony, but Sheriff Smith admits that it is an important link in the chain of circumstances that will be related in the testimony of the many witnesses who will be called upon to testify at the trial.
 Braun submitted his evidence to Assistant District Attorney P. W. O'Sullivan, Wednesday morning, the nature of which has not been dis closed by the District Attorneys of flee. Attorney O'Sullivan drew a complaint immediately, in which Braun charged Ray with the murders and a warrant was issued at once by Justice of the Peace c. H. Me Lane and handed to Sheriff Smith. The sheriff and his deputy, S. S. Davis, left immediately for Orc FinO, where they placed Ray under arrest.
 Ray was found by the officers con- structing a bean thresher. When in- formed by Sheriff Smith that he was under arrest charged with the Mahard murders, he did not appear surprised, acted indifferently and made no resistance to arrest. He ac- ecompanied the officers to the coun- ty jail, where he is now a prisoner. | Sheriff Smith did not handcuff Ray after his arrest
 Ray is apparently not sullen over his arrest. His greatest concern is to care for his corn, bean and potato l crops, which cover between twenty ! and thirty acres.
 Ray does not realize that almost | every resident of the district in which the murders were committed ] believes that he is the guilty one. | He accompanied Sheriff Smith sev- eral hours the day after the bodies 1 were discovered, in search of some clue that might lead to the arrest | and conviction of the murderers. A few days later suspicion eentered on Ray. It was learned subsequently, | that Ray and the Mahards were not | on calling terms, although close neighbors, and that Mrs. Mahard was reputed to have made the state | ment a snort time before the mur- ders that in the event her husband met with foul play she would ac- cuse two persons of the crime, Charles Ray being one of them.
 Since the Mahard murders almost i every resident of that district has been interested in the arrest and conviction of the guilty party. The crime shocked the community and later, when circumstances pointed to Ray as being guilty of the crimes more than one family moved from the vicinity, some abandoning their crops, fearing, it is said, being mur- dered by Ray, if he suspected that be was under suspicion by them.
 One mining man of that section, desiring to assist the officers in fer reting out the guilty party, called on Ray, and claims that in the course of conversation Ray was in formed that detective had seen the murders committed.