Weekly journal-miner., 1919-10-22
ADMINISTRATION ABANDONS HOPE OF (NRESERVED TREATY
Through Break For Liberty And Recapture, Martin Mum;
 Murder Suspect Brought In

, Full details of the escape and re- capture ot Needles Sunday and Mon- day of Nichan Martin, thought to be the murderer of Arthur Desteunder
 near Yampai on October 4, were
 received from Sheriff Warren c. Da-
 wis on his return with Martin yes
 terday afternoon, but the story con
 tains nothing to throw any light on
 the mystery of the former Canadian
 soldiers death. Martin, of low men,
 tai type, but apparently not any
 body's fool, continued in his stead
 fast determination not to utter 2
 word relative to the admission oi
 guilt.
 It was due to an act of kindness to-
 ward the prisoner, which Sheriff Da-
 wis characterizes as his own plumb fOolishness, that Nichan Martin
 spent day out of custody and re-
 ceived in the fleshy part of the hip a B caliber revolver bullet some time Monday. Like other mysteries clinging to the tragedy of Desteun- der's death, the matter of just who shot Martin in the rear was clouded. Martin stated that he had been fired on by members of a Santa Fe train crew as he walked along the tracks l2 miles west of Needles. Members of the train crew declare that the shot that brought the fugitive low was discharged by members of an automobile party, travelling the high way that parallels the railroad at this point. Certain it is, however, that, having the trail of Martin and knowing that he must head in mar row and confined westerly direction owing to lack of water except along the strip traversed by the rail and automobile roads, Sheriff Davis had instructed all Santa Fe trainmen working west from Needles, and all motor parties going in the same di- rection, to keep a lookout for Mar tin.
 How Martin Freed Himself
 Sunday evening, Sheriff Davis and Deputy Joe Furst took Martin into the railroad eating house at Needles. ! The sheriff removed the bracelets 1 for the prisoners convenience, and as they went forth from the restaur- ant, intended to replace them in the | car. As soon as he opened the screen door, Martin made a mad . dash into the darkness and was in stantly lost to sight.
 Blaming himself for his careless | ness, the sheriff gathered in an ex- pert tracker and awaited dawn. He knew Martin would start west and 1 that he could not wander far from the occasionally watered line of the After a careful hunt, Mar tin was located, lying in the brush . near the railroad right of way, though not seriously, or even severely. The location of the wound made sitting in a rolling, bouncing automobile rather incon- Fenient, and the county car was left and Martin brought in by train. For this reason it was not possible to refer the prisoner to the hotelkeeper at Kingman, but two persons at Ash Fork qualified as witnesses when they recognized the odd shaped era liun and the vivid wine colored on Martins cheek.
 The fact that the break for liberty would ordinarily be taken as an in iication of a guilty conscience, ap- oarently did not disturb the calm md clam-like attitude of the pris- oner He merely kept on saying nothing about the death of Des- eunder, whose body was found mutilated by fire within 100 feet of the auto highway about :hree miles west of Yampai on Oc- ober 6.