Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-21
OFFICERS
 TURN TONAN LOOSE
lnSunecto Is Again Arrested However Tells Straight
 Story to Officers

Antonio Tonan, arrested on fede- ral warrant charging him with snug gling over the international line d Douglas, horses and : saddles, was discharged yesterday afternoon by } United states Commissioner Taylor, the evicknse being insufficient 10 bind Tonan over to the grand jury.
 United States Attorney J. E. Nor rfsOn conducted the government case and ronan was defended by Alexander Murray. Tonan, however, is not yet free man. As soon as ne Nas released he was arrested by Officer McRae on the request of De puIy Sheriff Hilburn Of Douglas, who holds a warrant charging Tonan with stealing the three noTses. hnbutn wil afive in the city today for ms prisoner and Tonan will be arralgn- ed at Douglas.
 Tens Straight Story.
 Tonap is an in~uI rvctO and hls l-lLil- ily reslde un tue road to Douglas just south Of Lowell. He tells q pretty straight story as to how the horses came to be in hls possession. He dld not testify at hls hearing before tinted States Commissioner TayloT yesterday but two witnesses tesu- i,ed as to a cuns crsation Customs h. sector Tolan had with Tonan and ne told the same story to Officer Bailey of Lowell. He also told the story to a Review reporter on the day oi his arraignnlent before Commisslon- CT Taylor.
 ,, .Eo a,,- ,e rTorau-s arrest May 1t. insurreetos came to Bisbee 10 se- cure the horses that Toilan had. Iney had a letter addressed to Sherin N hite. but aa that officer was not here, the letter was not opened by any Bisbee officers. As the letter was not sealed Customs Officer Tolan opened 1t yesterday afternoon, after I oman had been discharged by the United States commissioner, and It proved to be letter from Customs Collector Mason at Douglas, assert ing that he had given permiss'on for Tonan and his two companions to cross the line with the horses to go to Douglas.
 Turns Horses Over.
 That makes a difference" Onicer Tolan remarked He then turned over the horses to the inSurrectos, who had been in Bisbee fer several days, waiting for the government to release them.
 Tonans story is that he and two other fnsurrectos, one of them a cap tam, obtained permission from the customs authorities at Douglas to bring the horses to this side of the hne. Tonan says that at Dougias his captain got drunk and he took the horses. by previous agreement with ms captain, and came 10 nis home to visit his family, south ot Lowell l. appears, however, that after Tonan left Douglas with the horses the captain made coInplalnt that the horses had been stolen ana officer Hnburn sent a telephone re- Gvest to B sbee for the arrest Of Ton an
 Says He Had Permission.
 Tonan's actions alter leaving Dong las were not those of a horse thiei. When he arrived at his home ne turn ed the horses loose near his hone and went 10 sleep. The horses were found there ky officers and Tonan was found Tn bed. romans IrIenus here do not believe that he had ans men ton of stealing the horses. He says that it had been arranged by his officers that he was to come to Bis bee with the two horses, get two insuITecto recruits and return 10 Me-ioo with them. This was the s,ury he told officer Bailey and to a Review reporter.