Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

him to halt. without effect. The posse fired and Valenzuela was struck 1 on the right side of the head with a
 lone buckshot from the shotgun of 1 Frank Prothero. The bullet appa-
 rently went straight through his |
 head. As a matter of fact, as later 1 determined by the examing surgeon l l at the Nulture, the buckshot just l
 knocked in a little piece of his skull, | and then went on around his head | and stopped under the skin at a point | | on the other side of the skull direct 1 | " opposite where it first struck. l l The pressure on the brain of the l piece of the skull that was knocked 1 in by the buckshot when 1t first |
 struck killed him.
 The Trials of GribbIe Murderers 1 The two men who turned north up | the Hassayampa on the day of the | | Gribble murders were never appre- | hended But in the fall of the same 1
 year Burt Alvord at Fairbanks ar 1 1 rested a tall man and a short man. 1 ! and on the person of one of them
 was found a watch said to belong to one Harvey Howe, and which Howe | had loaned to John Johnson, and l which Johnson had on his person on
 the morning of the murders. The tall man and the short man, both Mexi- l i cans one bearing the name of Nabor | Escalante and the other Angel De- mara. were indicted by the grand.l jury of Maricopa county in Novem-
 Der, 1888, on three separate indict-
 ments each, for the murder oI Crib ble Johnson and Doolittie- M Il. l Calderwood was foreman or the grand jury. We now leave the Arizona desert for the Arizona forum; and as there 1 were in those days supermen and l supereauines to conquer the desert l and the bandit, there were giants also in the forum. Frank Cox ably and eloquently prosecuted the tall man and the short man. They were | as ably and as eloquently, and with,
 perhaps, more impressive dignity de- 1 fended by Wooster street and Sen
 Goodrich. The short man, he of the
 weu-knit frame, black hair, white skin. and classical features, was con- I yicted in December, 1885, The tall
 man. he of the se-jointed frame,
 stooped shoulders and almost Ethi-
 opian complexion and features, was
 tried in January, 1889. The evidence
 for the prosecution was damning Tn
 the extreme. Chris Rodriguez, and
 others. had seen both men around the Vulture a day or two before ehe :. murders. Bill Gahan -swore that
 both of them were at Smiths Mill at daylight on the very morning Of the tragedy Harvey Howe positively identified the watch found on the l tall man at Fairbanks as the watch
 he owned for many years, and that he had loaned to Johnson for the , fatal trip. It was an ordinary Eigin silver watch, but he knew it from the circumstance that the rim which held the crystal had been broken many , wears before in Texas by a buck ing horse throwing him onto the horn ! of the saddle, and he had had 1t re- ,, paired by a jeweler in San Antonio ] "a fatal defect in the Territorys 7 case. as it turned out. The defense ! was strengthened a great deal James
 Rrash came again from Florence , ,, with new, or better written, books . of account tending to show that botn men were in his employ at time z that would have rendered it impos-
 sible for them to have participated 2 in the crimes. But the strongest de- . fense was the testimonies of Jew . eler Bean and Easy" Nelson, both a of Phoenix. as expert jewellers, that V in their opinion, the rim or the Watch . had never been broken, and never e been mended in San Antonio, Texas' q for the reason that the alleged orok . a on rim showed to their, and each of IT their. trained eyes the marks, on the - inside thereof, of a peculiar and spe- e cial tool. used only in the factory o where the watch was originally mace e and a few other large cities, none s so remote from the factory as San If Antonio The tall man was acqult- o ted: and a new trial was immediate o ly granted to the short man by Judge e w w Porter; and the district at- d to,-nev was reluctantly compelled, 1T a face of the new and overwhelming II evidence for the defense. to noi-pros U all the eases against both men; anc 'e thus once more, did crime go un- whipped of justice: for, notwith- 's standing the books of account. the a expert evidence, and the verdict ol ~ the jury. a short man of well-kni = frame. black hair, white skin, ane ri classical features, and tall man 0 -e loose -jointed frame, stopped should |; CTS and almost Ethiopian complexion
 and flea atures were at smith MI ,d early in the morning Of March is s~ 1888. they were. later in the sam' ? morning. with Innocente Nalenzue ,d Ia and Franc sco Vega. and f1ti I'd man. near Nigger Well, at the exac l. spot where Barney Martin was turn , ed out of the road nearly two year r. before: they were with Innocente Va no Ienzuela in tho flight across the liar no ana Hala desert, at the wood caml es where the bullion was buried, am st in the chase over the Vulture noun ad tains. and with them was found e. Fairbanks, Arizona, Harvey Howe v- watch. with or without a broken am he mended rim
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