Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-26
OFFICER TELLS OF
 ARREST OF McKINNON
(From Saturdays Daily)

son brothers last December, occupied another full day in the Superior court yesterday, the time being taken up by the examination of a number of i'm portant witnesses, called by the State. During the afternoon, the testimony fendant was taken, and also the story of the man with whom McKinnon had spent the night previous to his arrest
 w. K. Fitzgerald, deputy sheriff, occupied the witness stand for sev- eral hours while he gave the details of the arrest of the defendant early on the morning of Sunday, December l2th.
 Mir. Fitzgerald, who had been aiding Sheriff Young in the search for the alleged murderers, was with Officer Connor at the time of McKinnon's apprehension. The two had taken the trail of man supposed to be the one wanted, a short distance from the scene of the homicide. The man be- ing sought wore shoes which were fitted with rubber heels, and the sole of each shoe was so badly worn that a peculiar track was left wherever the man went. This track, according to MT. Fitzgerald, was followed by the two officers for period of about lZ hours, and led to the ranch of c. E. Harper, several miles from the scene of the crime. At the Harper ranch, the officers learned that a man had come there a short time before, seek ing food and needle and thread with which to mend torn or burned place in the jumper which he wore. He had been supplied with what he wanted, and set off short time later, going in the general direction of Kirkland. The trail of the rubber heels was lost short distance from the Harper ranch, and was not picked up until early the next morning. This time the officers followed the footprints to the door of the cabin of C. F. Sannicr, about eight miles northwest of Wag- oner, arriving there shortly before the hour of 7 o'clock a. m. Sannier was called out of bed and asked if he had seen a stranger pass that way, and answered that a strange man had come to the cabin the night before and was at the present time asleep in 4A tI, of the place to watch the back en- trance, and Fitzgerald walked to the door of the room in which the strang- CT was asleep. Opening the door, he found that the man had made his bed against the door, and it was neces- sary to exert some strength to force the door entirely open. The officer said that he covered the man with his gun and slipped handcuff on Me Kinnon's right hand The latter i'm mediately reached under the blanket with his left hand, apparently to draw gun, but tine officer warned him to beware the rough stuff, and McKin- non brought his hand out frorl under the cover empty, and was soor hand cuffcd by Fitzgerald. When the off ccr asked the man for his gun, the latter replied that he had none The prisoner was taken to the front of the house, and Officer ConnOr searched the bed and found a 3S calibre lver Johnson with five shells in it. At first the prisoner stated that his name was Harry kindon, and that he had not been in the vicinity of the spot where the shooting occurred. Later, however, he stated that his true name was Mckinnon, and that he came originally from Bisbee. A small sack was found on the man when he was searched, the bag containing several small articles, none of which could be connected with the shooting.
 The State presented a number of empty Smith & Wcsson 3S-calibrc special shells, picked up at the place where the murder occurred, but as the shells did not fit the Ivcr Johnson which the man carried, the defense is attempting to show that the gun which was taken from the prisoner had nothing to do with the killing of the Simpsons. The State contends that the men who shot the Simpsons hid the guns which did the killing. and that McKinnon purposely carried a gun of different calitre from the ones which were used in the murder. The Simpsons were known to have carried two rifles, and as only one of them was found at the scene of the killing, it is presumed that the other rife wa, carried off by the supposed pal of Mckinnon, the whereabouts of the latter never having been learned
 WOMAN USED AS DECOY
 TO GET CONFESSION