Show statement to the public inasmuch as the public has taken considerable interest in tile the harper penny murder affair and am wondering rin r tl why win R harper the supposed murderer of the pennys dennys was not brought bronchi back L to tile the state when lie he luid had be been en cati caught glit 1 1 the following statement will give ive uie the reasons why the requisition papers paper s were not issai issued edi when word came caine ali that a t H harper arper was being held in cli cheyenne e y e fi ne wyoming at tile instigation i oi 01 our former farmr 0 sheriff iff virgil virgi 1 kolly kelly a thorough investigation of the evidence in this matter wa by atty gen R A barneda Baines Bar neDI st atty emond H kyan I 1 ane and L I 1 myself and the conclusion was wag that there was not sufficient evidene to establish the guilt of harper there were three facts to establish 1st ast that tile dennys pennys P e nn I 1 vere yea lead dead T that t alie b 4 bos 0 eliat were to u acl were i bones of t the II ie missing penn dennys pennys ys 8 that harper was the cause off of 0 their death this we did riot hot think could be done with the evidence at land hand aj we feel in this matter as in in all matters where crime is corn milled that the criminal should sli be caught and dealt with according to law but we often conic come up against a proposition where we know of a moral certainty cartain ty that a person lias committed it a crime but when it is pub to it a jury and there is not sufficient it evidence tile the case will not stand st I 1 wish to say ta this 1 I 1 S ti that 1 at wm will JR R harper would be e brought b r 0 tiglia back to the charge of murder no mat ter what the costs might in eglit have been if 4 there blikre had been it a ghost of a chance fo convict him E R W KIN KING G i |