Arizona republican., 1920-08-11

arose and started to run and as she entered the kitchen from the screen room he struck her a blow on the shoulder and she fell.
 Fought With Mrs. Erhardt
 He followed her, he said, ana she arose from the floor aiI7 tried to fisht him off. The negro said she was a large woman and gave him a naro struggle, but he finally overc2me her with several blows of the hammer ana then he covered her body with blalikets taken from the bed. !t was at Clis time, he said. that he noticed the Jar of jam and bloke the top off on the edge of the range.
 Gibson said he then set about to
 shake down the place, anu went 1nlo the screen room, where he too. lew dollars from the pockets or MT Er- hardts pants, xhicn lay on the chair He then searched all the rooms, he said, using a small flashIight he had with him. He said it soon gave out and he found another one which was also dead, and he then used matches. He said he did not turn on the electric lights because it would attract atten- tion. After his supply of matches ran low he said, he rolled a bunch of ews- papers and lighted them fer torch.
 It took him an hour, i'e said, 10 make
 the search and he found only the few
 dollars in the old mans trousers. He
  said, where he found shirt belonging to the old man. This shirt he took with him as he left the place by the back door. which he unlocked. He said he stepped out of the kitchen to the cement floor of the back porch. During the entire interview, Mir.
 Montgomery said, the negro told of
 and described the various pieces of furniture which he had encountered in the place, the location of the rooms. the
 number of trunks he had found, and said that one large trunk he was unable l to open with the iron bar he had found in. the back yard of the place. The
 large trunk which he was unable to open was a wardrobe trunk belonging to Al Erhardt. It was not opened, al- though it gave proof that a strenuous effort had been made to do so-
 Washed Off Blood Stains The negro then said he left the house and went to the front of the house.
 where he threw the hammer away into
 some buses. Gibson said he then went out to the bank of the canal and washed his hands and face and washed the
 blood from his person He took off the | bloody shirt he had on he said, and threw it into the "big water ditch,'' and put on the shirt which he had | taken from the house. He said he then followed the Santa Fe railroad tracks
 back into the city and arrived near the Southern Pacific station about day break.
 He said he waited around until a passenger train was about ready to pull out and made a, dash and boarded
 it. He said he told the conductor he | had not had time to buy his ticket be- 1 fore getting on an paid his fare to
 Maricopa. From there, he said, he beat his way to California, where he murdered Roy Trapp
 | Gibson told the officers, MT. Mont gomery said, the location of the Stan-
 dard Oil plant and the location of the
 canal from the Erhardt home, and told Of taking clothing from the wardrobe
 in the front room. He told the of- | ficers. Mir. Montgomery said, that there
 were vacant lots around the house and that the canal ran across the road il 1 front of the house. He told them thas a shot gun stood in the corner of the kitchen and that a short gun of some
 kind lay on the ledge near the old mans head. He said that he did not place Mrs. Erhardt on the bed after he had beaten her with the hammer MT Erhardt, he said, was never out of bed Mir Montgomery said that before talking to the negro he had doubted the truth of the confession but since he
 has seen him and talked with him there is no doubt in his mind that the
 negro is the guilty party. The story told by the negro, the sheriff said, could not have been made up or acquired second hand, because he knew too many of the minor details.