Weekly journal-miner., 1921-05-11
OAK CREEKERS IN
 4 FORMAL REPLY
CFrom Friday,s pailyl


 a statement by Dr. Dumas, secre- tary of the association, recently. The MolinaS were arrested and brought here and their cases disposed of. The action of County Attorney Sul- livan did not please the association, which went on record. MT. Sullivan later gave out a statement on the case, which the association felt did not present their side.
 Chairman Midgley of the board of supervisors furnished the following which he said was prepared by Dr. Dumas:
 The following reply to the state ments of the county attorney has been made by the Oak Creek Cattle Growers association through M. O. Dumas, president, and Ira L. Hart, secretary:
 "The Oak Creek Cattle Growers association, at its stated meeting held at Red Rock on April ?, unam- iously passed a resolution of con- demnation against the action of County Attorney John L. Sullivan in the case of the Molina brothers.
 Since his answer, published in Prescott has not softened the hearts of any of the association, and inas- much as he has placed all the blame of said resolution on the shoulders of Supervisor w. w. Midgley, we feel it our duty to let the citizens of Yavapai county have all the facts in the case.
 "All the members who were pres ent at this meeting were familiar with all the details of the case and the facts were not misrepresented to them in any way and also all members present were satisfied in their own minds that the Molinas had been desperately, unlawfully hungry for the last eight years.
 "We are satisfied that they must have been desperately hungry as MT. Sullivan stated, because we dug up almost two beeves on the premises 1 and they admitted in the presence of Deputies Munds, Spear and the president and secretary of the O. C. | C. c. association that they had killed | one, one day and another the next. We might add that they admitted this to us and also at the preliminary examination and would have admit ted more but for Mir. Sullivan not allowing them to tell the truth with out advice of council as they had none.
 "Mr Midgley did not know that the animal in question was his until the preliminary examination.
 1.-The secretary of the O. C. C. C. association signed all three com plaints and neither he nor Munds, Spear or Dumas, who were also wit Hesses, were subpoenaed to appear at the trial.
 "Mr. Dumas and MT. Hart found where a beef had been killed and followed bloody trail to Molinas' ranch. They then went to Cotton wood and notified Deputy Munds, who obtained search warrant and searched the Molina house in Cot tonwood, where a piece of beef was found corresponding to a missing part of one of the beeves found on the Molina ranch.
 While we were in Cottonwood the father of the Molina brothers jumped on a horse and beat us out to the ranch, a distance of at least IS miles, and warned the boys of our coming.
 "When we arrived at the ranch we asked the three boys if they had any beef and they said that they did not.
 we lHCu SCdIC lue pIeullSGS and found some beef. They then ad- mittted that they Gall three) had killed one beef. We asked them what they killed it for and they re- piled that they were hungry.
 Upon further search we found practically two whole beeves and one hide and then they told us where the other hide was.
 "The inspector later examined these hides and found one of them to be unbranded, the other being the 2-bar' brand of w. w. Midgley.
 "We are not interested in the fight between Mir. Sullivan and MT. Midg- ley but simply want the public at large to have all the facts in this case.
 "We have been waiting for eight years for just such an iron-clad case as this is.
 "We are not accusing the county attorney of any misdeed but it ap- pears to us that he showed undue leniency.