Arizona republican., 1912-08-09
SENECA BRAVE
 COUNTERFE|TER
Leonard Jones of Pennsyl- vania With Whose Ali fairs Charles Davis, Col ored, Has Become in Some Way Mixed Up

Charlie Davis, colored is in again When he was released from the peni- tentiary short time ago it was pre- dicted that he would shortly be re- turned to that institution. He was talk en into custody early yesterday morn ing on suspician of being implicated with Leonard Jones in fOrgeries the latter had committed at Mesa for which he was brought to the county jail day before yesterday.
 Davis, since his release from the prison has been running a boot black stand at Mesa. Jones had negotiated one check there and was trying to pass another for $82. Davis went around to several places with him. Before the first one passed by Jones had been discovered to be worthless. he and Jones hired an automobile and came to Phoenix. They visited several places here trying to pass it and then Jones returned to Mesa where he was arrested
 He intimated at the time that Davis was concerned in the forgery but yes terday morning after the arrest Davis did not know that the check was forged
 In the meantime the authorities had come into possession of information that led them to believe that they had another hold on Davis, that of selling or furnishing liquor to an Indian for Jones is an Indian
 On the night they were in Phoenix together, Davis bought a bottle of whiskey and one of beer and was seen to give the whiskey to Jones. Jones admitted all that yesterday morning to Sheriff Adams and he told him that he was born in Pennsylvania, was a Seneca Indian of the Cornplanter res ervation and was under the charge of an agent.
 The matter was reported to Assist ant United States District Attorney O. T Richey who interviewed Jones in jail and got a quite different story out of him. He said that the COrnplanter reservation was dissolved in 1901 and since that time he had been an Ameri- can citizen one of whose rights under the constitution is to buy liquor and get drunk. He could not very well do that here where the bartenders do not know much about eastern Indians. All lilbldllo A1I . lilC SciiIt tO bIlCliIs SO llielN notwithstanding the constitutional rights of MT. Jones he has to get his whiskey through an intermediary.
 Jones does not look much like the Indians in this part of the country but he would not be taken for anything else but an Indian. He is bright and apparently well educated.
 The implication of Davis in this af- fair, whether he is guilty or innocent. recalls a spectacular crime he commit ted a few years ago. One day he took a small cook stove to w. D. Hammond who was conducting an auction busi ness here at that time. Hammond in vestigated the stove as to it's cOndi- ton and when he opened the oven he noticed half dozen biscuits in it. He picked one of them up and burnt his fingers.
 Davis had stolen the stove from COlOred woman who was keeping board CTS in a small way. Knowing that she would be absent from the house a short time, he hired an expresswagon' and took it to the house. Davis found the stove in use. Biscuits were being baked for dinner. He took the stove down, scraped the fire out of it and loaded it into the wagon.