| Show I MURDERER TRACED I DY BY TRACKS VImo ho Trader nt at Her crams hero POI For TrIll I Chief Chlor Deputy United States Marshal Lucian H Smyth and United States Dist Atty lt William McCrea me le turned Friday afternoon from Ito In Sun Juan county where tho prelim Inar hearIng of the Indian charged with the lie murder ot of Charles Fritz Indian trade I at HeC Hefferon feron was held Fob Feb iS 18 The Tho Indian was brought to Salt Lake by Marshal Smyth was looKed lodged in III the tue county jail to tim tho action of oC the fe federal grand jUl Jury Tue Tho hearIng was wa conducted at Blu I City before Peter Allen Alien justice of the peace Zhonne confessed to having committed the murder murdel and much evi i denee of a corroborative character produced It seems Zhonne who Is 1 a big husk husky Navajo and nd considered b by his as being a bai In Indian Indian dian called tt nt the trading post con conducted Conducted ducted by Fritz on the morning on Nov NovIS IS last lalit and risked Cor or something to cat Fritz gave him some Orne bread blead and cheese amid ancl eatIng the lie Indian noticed that Fritz was alone and In his con saId that ho he conceived the lie Lien of killIng the trader g get t then wont some mone money The Tue Indian out and looked up and down the lie and climbed a nearbY hill hili to see ee If anyone was vas In sight see the road for ROme distance In both but no one was In sight He returned to his whIch tied to a post near tIm tho tore store and took his 22 caliber rIfle from the saddle Return ReturnIng Ing toward the store he saw Fritz come out of oC the store storo and turn around to togo go back In Just as al the trader had reached the doorway fired the bullet striking the white In loan an In the head He tell fell to the floor the Indian folloW folloWIng following Ing and shooting him twice more In tue tho head to make mako sure Aure ho he was dead The Thc Indian then went to the cast cash drawer and took 2635 all the tho money In the tho till lIe lIo then took n a quantitY of Dr In IndIan dma dIan jeweh or of tile the value or of about 40 which had been pawned b by the tho Indians against the next government payday paday This ThIN jewelry Is highly prized b by the Indians being made mado from Crom Mexican sil silver ver vel mono money and formed Into trinkets Ho He then mounted his pony and rode away Some time line later its In the day another Indian rode liP up to the post poet and found the traders dead deur body lying In the store stort He immediately started to ride for the reservation headquarters so 80 miles awn away where lie he notified Agent V T Shelton on or of what hat had hati happened The agent organized a company of In Indian dma dian police and set Bet out for the trad tradIng Ing post The IndIans first believed the deed had been committed b by a white man but upon finding the tho empty shells and tracing the footprints ot of the lie IndIan and the pony which the they traced by means ot of a crack In the hoof or of the horse the they came upon evidences which convinced them that the culprit was au an Indian They round found a pawn ticket and a quarter which lied had been dropped by the Indian and traced the pony pan to the home or of Zhonne The They found him In the fields and atel seized and bound him with ropes and took him back to the agency agene where ho he was tas held In chaIns and shackles until the lie arrival ot of the tho Unit United ed States officers The penalty for firt murder under the United II is I death b by hanging l |
