| Show JIM JOE BOD 11 BESTED ARRESTED FOR THEFT OF A COLT sheriff horace allred received n phane call from justice geo A hurst jr of blanding sunday morning asking that steps bo b tikon to apprehend a couple of navajo indians that had been seen leadin a colt belonging to wylle redd of blinding blanding it appears that the road crew working I 1 between bluff and mexican hall hat tad had noticed a couple of indians leading in g the colt on thursday last s soma ome odthe of the crew had the colt ant alif lias has advised the indians indiana to take if abac here they so go it or briix it into bill bluff M the indians had promised I 1 to do so but instead had turned tinned iti loose ill I 1 As the stockmen stoc kmen of the southern part pait of the county have lost young youn horses at intel intervals vals many times durin the past that they have been satisfied I 1 have foien d their way vay across the san juan river onto the navajo reservation and havo have never been recovered the catching of the indians with the colt fumed ai grave importance A cor complaint was vas lodged against them and the sheriff was vas notified no tidied ila he obder od cd deputy sheriff arah shumway to pick them up it being stood that they y had come buck back into diancin the deputy who did not know either ot of the indians succeeded in having bittle johns brother one of them I 1 I 1 identified and took him into custody no one seemed to ho be able to identify jim joe bodany though it afterward aften vard appeared that lie ha was vas in tile same crowd of indians alini th the e first wa vas cl ai rested jim je immediately left for foi puts parts unknown uril mown shariff allred allied went to bluff in quest faue t of him ani and found tint that he also hid had pone gone north whon lie he reached jilin riling ing ani ft a abone message nie wae was received ali it nan dan iines hayes who linew knew him hal i seen wm him traveling toward monticello the sheriff ahr alff made as ta where here lie he would be liable to if top ani round found that abere were ere several sheen glicen canias there thereabout about with naddo her dors in hi charge ile he visited E bome a m e of them satisfying himself that tile the indian hid not stopped them coming back to monticello lie found that tile the indian had bad passed ventura just before dark inquiry showed that the indian had not reached town so 80 the next net morning the Flie riff learned tile the whereabouts of 0 other sheep camps where the indian would be likely to stay and going back bach south picked up lip his mn man at the bayles camp two miles of town tie he took him to blanding where tile the two were arraigned it carno came out that jim joe lind i coed the colt when separated sep orated from I 1 his comp compin antoli lon that when they again I 1 met he had turned tinned the colt over to little johns drother brothel with the excuse that his horse was too tired to lend it when they mot met tile the road load crew h he made the excuse that he ha wanted to buy tho the colt and was bringing it in tor for that purpose after hearing tho evidence justice hurst bound jim joe bodany over to i the district court exacting p r i i from the other indian that ila ho v evil 1 at all times let tits his h b known so that lie ho could be secured as a witness at the district court |
