Arizona republican., 1913-06-27
AFTER SCALPS OF DEPUTIES
Deputies Powers, Malicopa Slim and Perry "'Thc GiIa Monstcr,' Subjects of Warm Petitions and Protests to Gov. Hunt

Protests to Gov. Hunt
 .Maricopa Slim. who is in real life Deputy Sheriff Powers of Maricopa
 station in the county of Pinal, and as
 such is a terror of evil Goyrs;. together
 with the 'GiIa Monster, who likewise in real life is q deputy sheriff. a ter TOT to evil docrs, and whose real desiG- nation js Deputy Sheriff Perry of Gila
 Bend station Maricopa county; have both fallen under the ban of tn" dis pleasure of several of the men with
 whom they have hitherto come in con tact in the course of pursuing the channels of their duty. And in consc-
 quoncc of this ban. Governor Hunt
 yesterday received two petitions, one affidavit and one statement. from two
 different sections of the state, sent
 with the intent of getting if possible.
 the official scalpS of the two afore mentioned deputies.
 The charges that are made against
 the deputies. are those of brutality and iuhuman treatment of certain and di- NerS persons who journey through ta" official baiIiwicke of the two in box cars
 or on foot and who cannot give sui ficicntv good or satisfactory cNplan1-
 tion of their being there at that time
 or their business. nor any information about them, nor why. in the event th"N are travelling on what is known as side door pullmans', they have not chosen to pay their fare and ride on tn" 'couShins' better known as a passcn- ger train
 The affidavit in support of the stor- ics against 'Naricopa Slim, who in one paper is called Deputy sheriff Powers and in the other Deputy Sheriff Perry. was made by w. F. HurlinSon who signs the affidavit as one If the parties who Was run out of q box ear by the to him offending official and then signs a protest as president of | the local of the socialist party at Bis bee Burlington alleges that on De cembcr 20 last. he was in company with others travelling in a box car, and in the party was d. cultured and re fined young man of some nineteen years upon them the aIleGod assault was committed He naively oVerlooks
 the fact that he did not know the name of the lad who was SD NiciouslV as sauItcd and 'cusscd out, but states that he was modest and refined and ! had just completed serving sentence of thirty days in q California jail for vagrancy. At Maricopa or GiIa Bend. depouent saEcth not the officer against whom the petition is intended and who l is confusedIy called 'Maricopa. Slim ! and Deputy Sheriff Perry, both of which he cannot be. started to make these fellows get out of a box car They did not come out until the officer shot two times through the car when the
 door was opened and the bunch tumbIcd ont At this time some con ycr-atfon cusucd between the officer and the refined youth, and as ? result tho boy was knocked down with a sc- : were blow ou the sleep nerve.
 The affidavit states that the deputy then ordered one of his assistants. he had two, 10 kick him. but just as the assistant raised his foot 50 to do. one of the men in the party said, You wouldn't kick q poor boy when he was ! down and out o" WHcrcupon the vials | of the dcputy's wrath were loose again and tho other fellow who was the rc- 1 ciricut of much unparIiamentary lang mage, according to the affidavit This ' matter prcycd upon the feelings of Burlington sn that when he got f" | Bisbce. and reached the position of af- l fluonco and rcsron4ibiIity, as prcsi- dent of the local. he reported il and 1 the petition tO hay" Slim removed, or ! ''Thc Cila Monster removed, or both removed is the result. The protest i says. these brutalitics must stop and cease to exist
 The second proposition is directed against Perry. calling him The Gila l Monster and comes from the Jerome
 Local of the socialist party and is to ! the effect that one F. C. Thornc, on 1 February 27. 1913. was held mp and | searched at GiIa Bend and mistrcatod, when he was not doing a thing but mnding his own business. The Jerome l local also protests against these ac- ] tions and asks for the removal of the 1 Monster" Governor Hunt answered 1 all the communications by saying that
 he had no jurisdiction in the case but 1 that as they came directly under the cognizancc of the shcrfrs office he had referred the papers to Sheriff Jeff | Adams. in the case of Perry and to the l sheriff of Pinal county in the case of l slim.
 According to the officials of the | Southern Pacific railroad, Perry alias the 'GiIa MonstcrD and Powers CMari-
 copa SHmD are the two best officers | on the whole system. The efforts of the men have reduced the freight
 claims for the Tucson division, for pill fercd freight over $350O0 in the last
 year or more than the rest of the sys-
 tenn put together it is reported Every
 train is met by these officers and most 1 of the gentlemen of leisure" who ride
 over the country in side door pull mans are taken from the trains Whenever the trampS or hobOcS are
 civil the officers let them alone, but i when they get insolent the officers use ! rough methods to intimidate them The . records of the railroad turned in by these officers show that 75 per cent Oi
 the tramps are armed and large per l centagc of them have burglars tools ir
 their possession. The type of hoboe
 that freQuents the railroad is alleged tC ] be the lowest mentally and morally Ol