FRANK TONIOLA Arizona Republican Newspaper August 9, 1901 Governor Murphy on Wednesday night ordered a requisition on the Governor of California for the return to Yavapai County of Rice L. Foreman, charged with the murder of Frank Toniola, a Jerome miner. The murder was committed about two months ago. There had been some trouble in the mine about overloading the cages in disobedience of the company's orders. There had been frequent complaint but the offenders could not be precisely located until Toniola furnished information implicating Foreman and others. The next day, Foreman approached Toniola from behind and inflicted injuries with the blade of a shovel from which Toniola died. Foreman vanished from the camp in a most mysterious manner. The officer could get no trace of him. It seemed so impossible that he could get out of Jerome that for some time it was believed that his friends were concealing him and when at last, there was no doubt that he had gone, it was quite evident that he had been assisted away. A few days ago he was located at Redding Cal., and his arrest was ordered by telegraph. Deputy Sheriff Johns came down from Prescott on Wednesday evening and made application for a requisition. He left with the papers yesterday morning. Sheriff Munds is now on his way to California after the murderer. August 11, 1901 Redding Cal.--John L. Munds, sheriff of Yavapai County started home today with a telephone lineman, who under the name of R.D. Vivian, had worked here and who as R.D. Foreman is wanted in Arizona for murder. Sheriff Munds, while never having seen Foreman says, Vivian answers that individual's description exactly down to the loss of two fingers and a tattoo mark on the arm. The local public is surprised at the arrest of Vivian, he having been a particularly quiet fellow here. The murder was a most brutal one. As Sheriff Munds described it, it was committed at the United Verde Copper Mine on June 6th last. Foreman and two other miners crowded into a mine cage bound for the surface of the shaft that already contained the maximum number of miners allowed by the management. The Shaft Boss, Frank Toniola reported the three and they were discharged. As Toniola entered the hoist house the following morning his skull was split open by a shovel in the hands of Foreman and in the presence of several witnesses. The murderer go out of the country. His mining partner, named Vivian, said if Vivian was ever found he would be going under the name of Vivian. Vivian or Foreman secured permission to be taken by way of San Francisco where he says he can prove he was working on the date of the Arizona murder.