Arizona republican., 1914-08-23
Victor Pima, Sheriff Halls Witness Against Jose Ma ria Alvarado, Swears There Were More Than Three in Gang
ALVARADO HIDING
 PALS EXISTENCE
Prisoner Close to Nervous Breakdown in County Jail-PuZZle Grows More Tangled as Further Infor- nation is Secured


 There is an Antonio Lopez, &C., cording to the information given to The Republican yesterday by Sheriff Henry Hall of Pinal county and | what is more, Lopez was the fourth member of the woodcutters' gang. and is still at large.
 Sheriff Hall, with Victor Pima, the Mexican who first warned Phin Brown of the peril of his mission to the Gibson camp, arrived in Phoenix yesterday to take back Jose Maria | Alvarado, the self-confessed partici- pant in the crimes in Devils Canyon. i Pima, who is a good Mexican" was unable to identify Alvarado. posi- lively, as he didn't see all the camp e-s close up, but Lakel. the rancher. 1 who was also in the canyon that day. ] claims he can certainly spot the members of the gang, as he hid in the brush and watched them ride off on the horses belonging to Brown and Landry.
 1 Hall takes Pima and Alvarado back to Florence today, where the latter | will be faced by Lakel. But even though Lakel cannot identify the fugitive. the officers believe they have plenty of evidence from the mans own mouth to hold him. 1 Alvarado's statement, made in The Republican office and published exclusively in this paper yesterday morning, stands alone as sufficient to warrant his incarceration. All day yesterday the prisoner fidgeted about 1 lis cell, sometimes indulging in an 1 odd smile, often muttering to him. self, as though completely unnerved. l He made no statement worthy the name, and certainly did not tell of being with M. H. Cacillas at the time of the murder of Bacon and Miller, and later during the flight 1 toward Miami. If Cacillas was with | the gang at all, it was after Lopez, l the fourth man, whose existence AL
 varado declines to substantiate, had | separated from Smith, Amaya and 1 Alvarado. and had started over the hills. The only theory that fits all
 these facts was the one published in
 The Republican of Friday morning suggesting the presence of Lopez and
 Cacillas in the mountainS north Of Superior
 For it is very plain that only
 Amaya and Alvarado went to Super | ior i-,-,n1;n+~I, ofte'- tho billi-o nf
 Bacon and Miller. Alvarado's admis
 sion that he hid behind the post at
 Old Pinal while an auto load of of
 ficers went by twice, Is substantiated
 and confirmed by Sheriff Hall. who
 says that Alvarado was right, even
 Hall was in the car.
 The idea that Landry. Bacon and Miller were chasing the gang after
 the murder of Brown is ridiculous.
 Alva~ado's story and the evidence,
 both show beyond any doubt what
 ever that Landry and then Bacon
 and Miller were set upon and mur
 Gered, the latter two in their sleep.
 A brother of Frank Bacon told Wal
 ter Brawner yesterday that the un-
 fortunate boy had been shot seven
 teen times. This is described as
 characteristic of the actions of the
 depraved Mexican criminal. Most
 outlaws believe in dispatching their
 victims with one clean shot through
 (, vital spot. Not so with the broth
 CT from across the border. His meth
 cd is fiendish, cruel beyond words.
 He prefers to wound and torture
 and let death come rather from the
 accession of physical shocks and pain | hay k,.
 related how Landry was not only throttled but half drowned before he
 was finally shot. He was bound and weighted down in little pool in , Mineral Creek, rocks piled on him. , and he was left there until his cap tors saw fit to raise him and hang , him tn a tree
 A Mexican named Antonio Lopez , is we'll known in Ray. His descrip-
 ton tailies with that given by Lakel. | who saw the four men riding down | Mineral Creek on the horses taken l from Brown and Landry. Lopez, . who is missing from his haunts in ? Ray. is not known as a bad man. , although he is said to be pretty } good shot with a rifle He is about
 9 years old. rather big and burly. , light complexioned, and distinguished 5 by a heavy black mustache. The posse search for Lopez has been z given up.
 1 What Pima Heard 9 Pima, laborer on the pipe line 8 at the Ray Con-. told how he lin- gered near the camp of the wood- j. cutters the day Nose Lutfy's horse e was stolen and overheard such re- i marks as:
 e If those gringo officers try to
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