Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-26

opinion that the State had rather
 weak case up until the time the story
 of Mrs Troutz was told in court.
 This is what is believed to have cinch- ed the case against the defendant.
 Story of the Killings.
 1 McKinnon was charged with the killing of John Simpson, one of the two deputy sheriffs who had arrested McKinon and his unknown pal on charges of robbing several mining camps below Crown King. Simpson and his brother Nelson were riding horses and marching their prisoners along in front of them, making their way to Prescott. On the afternoon of December l2th, the four reached point on the Slate creek road, and Mckinnon received permission to tie a bundle of bedding onto the horse ridden by John Simpson. In handing the bundle up to the horseman, he seized the opportunity to snatch the lattcr's rifle out of the holster and fatally wound his captor. The other prisoner Is said to have pulled six shooter from his shirt at the same moment and fired at Nelson Simpson. killing him instantly. The men parted shortly after the murders. The strange man was never accounted for, al though officers hereabouts are not hesitant about claiming to know the identity of the man. He is believed 10 be in the interior Of Mexico at the present time McKinnon took to the l rough country and was making his l way toward Crown King. He was i trailed by Officer Fitzgerald to the l cabin of C. F. Sannier, where he was | arrested on December l4th after hay ing attempted to pull gun on the i officer. He had made his bed close I'D against the door leading into the | room. and was apparently under the impression that he was being pursued. |
 McKinnon is a man of about 5 years of age, neat appearing and does not look the part of the cold-blooded murderer which the jury's verdict stamped him as being. He was a former resident of Bisbee.
 Cruel and Inhuman Treatment.
 According to the complaint filed yesterday in the Superior court by Mrs. Amanda w. Short, her husband, Theodore, was in the habit Of sub jecting his better half to indignities of all sorts and in April, 1917, while the family resided at Cottonwood, the | defendant administered severe beat | ing to the plaintiff, and otherwise abused her. Mrs. Short asks that she | be granted a divorce, $40 month ali mony. and the custody of five of the | couples six children. The complaint | states that they were married in Mis- souri in 1900.
 New Suit Against United Verde.
 Mrs. Hulda Karkela, widow of the | late Albert Karkela, yesterday filed i suit against the United Verde Copper 1 Company, demanding a judgment for I the sum of S25,000 for me death of her husband, who was killed in the 1 defendant company's mine on August | 4, 1917.
 According to the complaint, Kar- i kcla was al work in the capacity of . mucker Tn one of the stopes and was | killed when a large mass of rock fell | from the top of the stope. The plain ] tiff alleges that the company was not | sufficiently careful to see that the i room had been properly timbered so | that the rock could not have fallen on | the workmen. The deceased left a | widow and two small children, and . the plaintiff sets forth that the family . has been damaged to the extent of ] S25,OO0 by being deprived of their bread winner.
 Sues For Lost Love. R. w. Coughran, resident of the l southern part of this county was yes terday made the defendant in a dam | age suit filed by Fred LaJuenesse, the l complaint alleging that the defendant | alienated the affections of the wife of the plaintiff, and that said affections ! were worth, in cold cash, the sum of SlOOO0.
 According to the plaintiffs state mcnts, he was married to Minnie 1 Belle Schwartz in 1904, and later 1. moved to the neighborhood of Skull {. valley, on a farm near the home of the defendant The complaint further states that during the absence of La Juenesse from his home, the defend !. ant made trips to the home of the . former and made love to Mrs. La Jucncsse, with the result that the woman quit her husband and trans ferred her affections to Mir. Coughran.