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...Wanted to Die." Three days later a horseman found the body. Maricopa County police easily collared the killers, for they had not gone unobserved on the night of the murder: a witness had seen Resnick and his companions in the Studebaker driving to their desert rendezvous. But the story the four men told seemed unbelievable. "He promised us $200 cash," said Spurlock. "He promised us all of his jewelry and $200 to do the job. When we searched the body, we got the jewels but found only two dimes and those five pennies. We did it because he wanted...
Smiling Through Millions. In 1907 Hayden was elected sheriff of Maricopa County. Phoenix was then a raw town of 10,000, its unpaved streets lined with saloons, gambling halls and brothels. Among Sheriff Hayden's duties was one to enforce an ordinance requiring Indians from the Maricopa Reservation to wear pants, not breechclouts, while in town. Once, according to a story Hayden likes to tell, a group of churchwomen complained to him that an old Indian chief outside town had three wives; they demanded that the sheriff do something about it. Hayden went to see the chief, explained: "Under...
...drinking; in 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk and disorderly. He lost job after job, wound up on Chicago's Skid Row. On Jan. 24, 1955, Ira stayed up all night drinking muscatel with four other Indians in a desert shack on the Pima-Maricopa Indian reservation near Phoenix, Ariz. Next morning he was found not far from the shack, dead. He had strangled on his own vomit...
...close to Beautycoon Elizabeth Arden's Arizona Maine Chance health-and-beauty farm last week were brusquely shooed away by grim-faced guards who sprang from behind cactus clumps. A total of 21 armed men-six Secret Service agents, six members of the Arizona highway patrol and nine Maricopa County sheriffs deputies-guarded the place around the clock, seven men to each eight-hour shift...
Leasing 4,500 acres of farm land in Arizona's Maricopa County, Harris trekked his work crews, tractors, and cotton gin 125 dusty miles to the farm and planted it to cotton. This fall, when he harvests his crop, he will have to pay a penalty of 18½? per Ib. for growing cotton without an allotment. But even if the penalty amounts to $800,000 as it may, Farmer Harris will feel no pain. A fair-to-middling crop will likely yield him $1,200,000, plus his soil bank payments, or a profit of $600,000. Harris...