Arizona republican., 1914-02-25
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 EXPERIMENTATION
Prosecution of Killers of Marshal Hi Peterson of Mesa Announces It Will Prove "Wilfull Murder. ' Defense Objects

he would endeaVor to show that the defendants had prepared for two or three days preceding the killing of Marshal Hi Peterson, for just such an incident, and that future evidence ] would be introduced to show that d crime had been premeditated by the boys. The announcement came when Brumback of the defense objected to the line of questions the prosecution was asking on the grounds that they were irrelevant to the case in hand. Overruling the objection on this score the court then allowed the pro- secution to introduce as evidence facts to show that the accused had entered and robbed the Irving store at Alhambra on the night of the crime, for the purpose of securing supplies and grub stake" for the trip they were about to make in es- caping from the officers. More facts on the same line are promised by the prosecution in the future exam ination of witnesses. and the prose- cution will endeaVor to follow out the theory that the defendants were prepared for their escape prior tc the shooting
 The greatest victory for the pros- ecuton yet secured was when the guns taken off the defendants at the time of their capture by the deputies making the arrest were allowed to be entered as testimony in the case. They ale the guns which the boys | admitted to the arresting officers were used in the killing of Peterson, and which they drew just prior to their surrender and were about to lse in resisting the officers.
 The most damaging testimony yet introduced was that of Deputies George Sears and James Murphy, who with two other deputies trailed the men and made the capture. The statements of the deputies were practically identical. They told of being called to Mesa on the night of November F. there to investigate the circumstances of the killing of Peterson. They examined the ground and located the direction which the murderers haa taken after firing their death dealing shots. Next morning they followed the trail of the murdere!s to the Longmore ranch some mile and a half west of Mesa, where it is alleged the defendants stole a horse and buggy and came through Phoenix to the Teasdale coral on Grand avenue. where they stole two horses and started out the ,avenue west.
 l .1,n nf th h.o the avenue they discovered that some one had entered the Alhambra store. which they afterward admitted to the officers they robbed. From there the trail led west to the Agua Fria, and to Grils Tanks, where a Mexican boy named Chivas told the officers he had seen the defendants.
 The officers having gotten the general direction taken by the de- fendants set out for Hot Springs Junction. At four o'clock on the morning of the fourteenth, Deputies Sears, Murphy and Connors, who had gone out from Phoenix. and Ranger Ceilings, who joined them at Hot Springs Junction, took the trail of the murderers at a point about four miles out of the junction. From here they followed it to the Hassa- y&mpa, where it turned toward Wick enburg, through Wickenburg up the Congress Junction road to within five miles of the junction. where they found the camp the men had made some time previously. From the camp southwest to a black mountain on the desert, to the Date Creek road and on the creek. They came upon the men half mile below where the
 Date Creek road crosses the creek
 Under direct and cross examination the officers told the same story of coming on the defendants. of their drawing their guns and offering fight till they found that they were outnumbered and at a serious disad- vantage, and finally of their sur
 render. Later they told of the story
 which the defendants put up when
 they were cornered and on their way
 back to the railroad The officers
 overlook the men a little after noon } on Friday. November 14, bringing
 them to Phoenix the same evening
 and arriving with them just forty
 eight hours after the shooting had occurred
 Sheriff Jeff Adams told of what
 the defendants had had to say whrf they were brought to prison. where
 thev admitted the killing. saying the1
 shot in self defense. Judge George & Irwin, of Mesa, justice of the
 peace of that precinct. identified the Head and bullet taken from Peter
 sons body on the night of the mur- ] der and the same was admitted as testimony in the case.
 } Mrs George Irving of the Alham l bra store. robbed by the defendants l according to their own story to thu 3 deputies making the arrest, told O | the robbery of the store and of thu 7 stolen goods.
 r James w. Ceilings. the Date Greet deputy. told of trailing the los horses which the defendants wer
 riding and of overtaking them.
 George Teasdale from whom tw'
 horses were stolen on the night o
 the murder recognized one of tn defendants as a man familiar witt his stables on Grand avenue am told of the missing horses and thei subsequent return.
 Longmore, who lost the buggy am horse near Mesa, also spoke of hi