Rodgers and Wingfield
Arizona Silver Belt
Nov. 16, 1899

The New Mexico authorities have signified that they will consent 
to the extradition of Tom Ketchum, charged with the murder of 
Rodgers and Wingfield at Camp Verde last July, says the 
Republican.  An effort was made to procure his extradition after 
his arrest in New Mexico for train robbery but the authorities 
refused to give him up on the grounds that his conviction of 
the train robbery was assured wihle his connection with the 
Camp Verde slaughter remained to be established. Since then 
the trials of train robbers and other criminals in New Mexico 
have not resulted satisfactorily. Juries have been too easy 
with them and even when it has been shown that there was no 
doubt of their guilt, it has been shown impossible to get a 
verdict corresponding with their crime.

It was therefore decided to give Ketchum up.  It his trrial 
for murder should end in an aquittal he will be rearrested 
and taken back to Santa Fe.

There seems little doubt that he is the Camp Verde murderer. 
Persons living along the Santa Fe Pacific have identified a 
photograph of Ketchum as that of a man who was in that 
vicinity near the time of the murder.  Captain Boyd, who 
was shot at the same time that Rodgers and Wingfield were 
killed believes that the photograph was that of the 
murderer.  In the arrest of Ketchum for train robberty 
he was shot in the arm.  Blood poisoning set it and it 
was believed he would die but the arm was amputated and 
he got well.  If Ketchum is the Camp Verde murderer he is 
also known in the territory as George Stevens and Charles 
Bishop.  There was a member of the notorious Black Jack 
gang by the name of Tom Ketchum and the man who was killed 
near Clifton in a fight with officers and afterward 
identified as Black Jack himself, was at first believed 
to be Tom Ketchum.

There is no doubt that this is the prisoner's real name.  
After his imprisonment at Santa Fe he was visited by a 
brother of that name, a respectable cattleman of Texas.

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