Arizona republican., 1917-05-18

suggested to him by his recollection of having traced maps and pictures at school.
 Anderson did not account for the possession of all the money he ap- peared to have spent after the murder Most of it he had secured from the sales of hay and other proceeds of which he had turned over to Groff. He ! had one check for ST which he could not get cashed in Phoenix and he called on Croft who was then stopping at the Hotel Adams Croft had ii cashed at the hotel counter.
 So far, there had been little or no connection except by the testimony of Anderson, of Croft with the disposition of the property of Hughes. E. B. Clark was put on the stand to testify that he had seen Croft driving in the direction of Phoenix with two mules which he knew belonged to the Hughes ranch He said he hac seen the mules the day before at the ranch. He was in the company of J. B. Moore the man who had bought them Of Croft and had to give them up
 How They Sold Mules ! Moore testified that he had bought the mules of Croft about the middle of ] January. He first bought a buggy of Croft for Sl5 and a few minutes later . took the mules at $40. He gave a check for S155. Croft asked him to go l with him to the Phoenix National Bank and identify him. He did so and Croft cashed- the check. He next saw Croft in jail and identified him as the man who had sold him the mules. Later he ] called on Croft at the jail and asked what he was going to do about it. Croft replied that he would see that he lost nothing; he said he would shortly have plenty of money from relatives and he would then give Moore $500 if he would refuse to identify him. Moore replied that he would have to see the money before entering into any such agreement Moore repeated this con- versation at the office of the county attorney
 j Earl S. Wiatt, paying and receiving at the Phoenix National bank also identified Croft as the man who had been introduced to him by Moore and he said he had been taken to the jail to see him after the return of Croft from Fl Paso.
 w. J. Kingsbury. head of the com pany which owns the Hough ranch where Croft was employed, was put on to show that Croft could not have had 9O iIiuCIl ulOH6y as ne Qdu spent, rom his wages. Croft went to work about the middle of October and quit about the middle of December His pay was i S2 day. He boarded himself and had no other compensation of which the witness was aware.
 A. B. Saunders, cashier of the Far mers' and Merchants bank at Tempe, and paymaster for Kingsbury's con- ! pany, said he had issued checks to | Croft for three months at $2 a day; he had also been allowed a small sum for ; boarding the men employed on the ranch. AlA
 Mir. Windes of the Pacific Creamery company identified two checks of about S4OO which had been sent to Hughes in i December and January for pasture rent. Both of these checks had been put through the National Bank of Tempe and were identified by the cashier, J. F. Peck. One of them was drawn against for $500 The check which was paid bore the name Of Hughes which had been forged by An dersOn.
 Checks Identified
 ! There were several other witnesses for the identification of various checks which had been mentioned in the evi- T1. J T.. dertaker of Tempe was put on to posi- lively identify the body of Hughes and then C. s. Houlihan was called. This young man who has been in jail for several weeks wore something more than a jail pallor. His face was white: he had been "bleached," a process that had been applied to ascertain whether an eruption of the skin was smallpox. The testimony of Houlihan was for the 1 purpose of corroborating Anderson re- garding the movements of Croft dur ing his stay in Phoenix after the mur- der, and his expenditure of money Houlihan said he had not made a hit with Croft and one night in a pool hall Anderson told him that Croft had threatened to shoot him. Houlihan called Croft to one side to "bawl him out" Instead Croft "bawled out Anderson so violently that the youth tainted.
 Another witness was Mrs Bessie Ross, whose acquaintance, while she was a waitress at a lunch counter Croft had formed to her great finan- cial advantage He was generous with tips; she estimated that her receipts from that source one month amounted to S100. Moreover he had bought heI
 
 was laden on the witness stand There was a wrist watch and lavaliere, foI which she said Croft told her he had paid $30 He took her to Fl Paso the first time he went there and she ex- pected they would be married At one time she had seen Croft in possession of more than $500. After she left the stand Croft whispered that he could have furnished his attorney with infor- nation that would have been trouble some to this young woman but he did not care to make war upon her.
 Ray Williams, who was night clerk at the Hotel Adams during the stay of Croft there, said that he had beer there about two weeks. He had room at S1.50 a day and then took another at s3.50 day. This testimony was in tended to show the princely style oi living in which Croft indulged after the murder of Hughes. But that pur- pose was defeated by the further state ment of Williams that Croft had no paid the bill and had been checked out So far as the witness knew. the bill ha( never been paid. Anybody can be that kind of a prince without participation in murder.
 Hold Club Over Him
 Anderson had testified that sometime before the murder of Hughes Croft hac induced him to bring mule to Phoenix and sell it as his own property under the name of John Smith. This wa. one of the mules that had been hired for work on the Hough ranch. Aftel the sale Croft, Anderson said, haC 1 threatened n turn him mn tE,