Show Captured by His Own Tribe Indian Murderer Confesses by members of his own CAPTURED C tribe of Navajo Indians who fol followed followed followed lowed his trail with the relentless relentlessness ness of fate Zhonne the Indian mur murderer murderer murderer derer of Charles Fritz a trader was turned over to the Uie Indian reservation authorities and later after a preliminary examination at Bluff City San Juan county was bound over oer to await the ac action action action tion of the United States district court courtIn In Salt Lake United States Mar Marshal Marshal Lucien H Smyth arrived in the city yesterday with his prisoner after a n hard trip during a portion of the distance through snow from two to three feet deep In telling of the trip yesterday Deputy Smyth stated that in traveling from Mon Monticello Monticello Monticello south toward Bluff City CIt It was necessary at one time for them to load the wagon wafon on a bobsled The preliminary examination of Zhon Zhonne ne was held before Peter Allen Alien Justice of the peace at Bluff City on February 19 With the characteristic fatalism and stoic stoicism stoicIsm stoicIsm ism of his race the Indian confessed to the murder and recited the details of ot how he had brutally killed the trader On November 18 iS 1909 Zhonne said that he went to the trading post of Charles Fritz at post In tho the southeast south southeast southeast east corner of the state and on the tile In Indian Indian Indian dian reservation When hen he found that Fritz was alone he thought that It would be a good chance to kill him and get the big amount of money mone that was supposed to be kept on hand lland While Fritz was going the doorway door doorway doorway way of his lila cabin the Indian shot him him through the head bead with a Ii 22 calibre rifle and then as he was falling shot him twice again both shots taking effect effet Following the murder he ransacked the place and secured about 26 2635 in silver and a number of pieces of silver Jewelry that the Indians had there in pawn and worth about 40 He then went to his lodge some IOme distance from the scene of the crime It developed In the examination that another Indian went to the tile trading post the next day for the purpose of purchasing ing tag some food and there found the dead body of the trader He mounted his horse and rode at breakneck speed to the In Indian Indian Indian dian agency at Shiprock where he told I Superintendent W T Shelton As the posse started back the horse that the Indian had ridden fell dead from under him He had actually ridden the animal to death In carrying the news of the mur murder murder murder der to Shiprock At the cabin of the trader a number of Indians took up the trail of Zhonne and followed It like hike a pack of hounds right to the lodge of the Indian murderer There they found him and after securely binding him with rope secured from him hima a confession confes lon of where he had hidden the stuff The money and ond the Jewelry were all aU recovered On the return trip to Salt Lake Mr Smyth was out for five nights alone with his Indian prisoner but Zhonne made madeno no attempt to escape for with the stoic stoicism ism of his race he evidently had come to the tho conclusion that death was soon lOOn to tobe tobe tobe be meted out to him and he was not afraid to die dlf Zhonne will be held at the county Jail until the April term of the United States district court at which time he h will vili be he tried on the charge of murder in the first degree de gret |