Arizona republican., 1910-04-05
PRELIMINARY
 POSTPONED In Case of Conductor Sto-
 wells Assalant PENDING DEVELOPMENTS
Walter Grainer's State ment of the Shooting at the Stockyards.-He Ex- presses Regret and Hopes the Conductor Will Recover.

The man giving his name as Walter Grainer. and charged with the shoot stockyards at this place was yesterday afternoon sent to the Phoenix jail for safe keeping by Justice Irwin and his preliminary arraiSnment postponed un- 1T such time as the complaining wit ness may be able tn appear for the prosecution of the case Justice Irwin
 received a telephone message yesterday from the attending physician stating that the injured conductor was very seriously injured, but in all probability would live. but that it would be some
 time before he would be able to ap- pear in court. The steps looking
 toward a preliminary a1aignment
 were immediately taken and the man was ordered to the county jail and to
 be held without bail.
 Grainer, when seen at the city jail
 yesterday morning and the article read
 to him from yesterday mornings Re publican, made an abortlve attempt to
 appear indifferent to fl all. When The Republican representative was at the
 jatl in conference with the man, the
 rumnr that had been going the rounds of the street that the conductor was
 dead, was told to him. For a moment
 he weakened and then with jerk
 brought himself together again and re-
 fused to believe it. T suppose" he
 began. that I am in for a term any
 way ii can be fixed, but it is just an
 other one of my cases of luck" Out
 side the cell door stood man who
 gave him Western Federation sign
 and it was answered by the man with
 in. It became evident that there im-
 mediately sprung up between them that feeling of fraternalism and Grain
 CT was again for a moment off his
 guard. Your name is Wilson" began
 the man on the outside to which Grainer answered. Yes" but h" quick ly corrected the statement and whether that is the mans name or whether he failed to hear the query correctly was not known. Anyway the man who con- fronted him with the question claims that he has seen the man in Winkel- man. and they discussed at some length the character~end kind of work at Winkelman and several of the men on the work there were known b. both of the men. Finally Grainer remarked when piled with leading questions by the man. ''I don't know you and have got to be careful who I am talking to"
 The mans story is that last Tuesday he was in Ray for the last time and that he could not possibly have had to do with the burslarizinS of the safe at that place. The ham, mers which were found in his bedding he claimed. that he had used when in the employ of different concerns as a carpenters helper He claims that he walked from Winkelman to Florence Sunday morning. and thence on to Webster. where he waited four hours for the freight train that carried him to Mesa. He contends that hs handed i the brakeman 9 piece of money for his fare to Tempe and then climbed into q gondola coal car and rode % this place where the shooting occurred. The man claims that he has nothing to show that he paid the brakeman anything for the ride and that when the matter comes up in court that it N ill be simply hIs evidence against the trainman's. -'
 As to the shooting. Graiuer contends that tho freight was going no less than ten miles an :'our and had reached point west of the Mesa station when the conductor started to climb over the front end of the car and had one leg across preparing to get in when the saot was fired
 The general demeanor of Grainer. and his attitude toward the whole affair. is not one to give him sympa- thy. Only during the times that he appears to forget his surroundings is he the least bit penitential. When the was placed before him stat ing that Stowell Is considered one Of the least pubnacious conductors on the 1 road. he remarked. "well. if he's such 1 a good fellow I hope he don't die"
 Grainer is a man between g and 40 1 years of age, although he would easily 1 pass for 8. He is rather neat in ap- pearance. clean shaven, and although | dressed in the garb of a working man his clothes were clean. He mad when l S4.60 in money and pocket l knife He carried bed and in that !! was wrapped some carpenter tools. | the questioning process the man drew rather energeticailv on a pipe. which required filling at short ] He was free to talk. but | his answers were rather of aI evasive nature.