Arizona republican., 1916-10-08

For nearly two thousand years the story of the. lost sheep has appealed to human hearts. This story of a lost child must also appeal. Sometime last winter tragedy occurred, the actors of which were a young man and little girl sixteen years old. After the tragedy the girl was taken to the home of the boys parents without marriage. She was taken from there to the Crittenton Home for safe keeping. She was spirited away from this place and carried out of the state. Meantime, a warrant was issued for the young man under a statutory charge. Shortly after her disappearance rom the Crit tenton Home the girls parents were approached by the mother of the young man and also by a deputy sheriff of this county. They were promised the restora- tion of the girl in a few minutes if they would consent to pro- cedure which would wipe out the charge against the young man. They refused to do this. The girl was gone. The charge was thereafter dismissed for want of evidence" This in spite of the fact that witnesses have been kept in jail as long as twelve months in this county on flimsy charges in order to hold them. The young man also disappeared. No extradition proceedings were brought. When the girl went to the Crittenton Home she had a box of medicine with names of physicians on it. She took a dose of this medicine and thereafter had three convulsions. The re- mainder of the medicine in the box was taken to the office of the county attorney.
 One day last spring the father of this little girl, himself a hope less invalid. came into my office to tell me the terrible grief of himself and the mother, who was washing for a living. He asked me what could be done. l sug- gested a civil action, owing to the impossibility of doing anything through the officers of the law. I began an inquiry and found that at about the time the girl was taken from the Crittenton Home the father of the young man and a deputy sheriff had exchanged a large roll of bills one day between the court house and the jail. I sent the father to the county attorney to secure the box of medicine taken from the girl. He came back and told me that the county attorney had told him that the medicine was gone and he didn't know where it was
 My next move was to locate tie girl. With finances furnished partly by myself and partly by good Samaritans who wanted to see justice done, man went out of my office to search for her. 1 personally gave his ticket to the conductor in order that no con versation might be overheard with reference to his destination. He was gone about six weeks, during which time 1 was in con- stant telegraphic communication with him by the use of code mes sages. Just before l left for the east I had a wire telling me of his success. The girl was after ward brought back. Some kind of charge was made against the young man and it also failed. To- day the young man is at large,  the other actors in the nefarious transaction are at large, the girl is in the reform school, the father is unable to help himself, and the mother is washing for a living. All this happened under the eyes of the county officials as a result either of their hope less ignorance or their guilty knowledge
 It is because of such things as this that I am a candidate for COUNTY ATTORNEY. I am not begging for votes; I am of fering service. IF YOU p. s. have neither time nor ir an accept a few invitations to speaI