Were Innocent Men The Ann Arbor Man And His Friend Who Were Arrested Here Charged With A Murder In Flint--reasons For Their Actions

WERE INNOCENT MEN

THE ANN ARBOR MAN AND HIS FRIEND.

Who Were Arrested Here Charged with a Murder in Flint-Reasons for Their Actions.

The Flint News speaking of the arrest of the two suspects here on the charge of murdering Casler in Flint, thus acquits them of complicity in the crime:

"Sheriff McCall returned yesterday morning from Ann Arbor without Lorenzo Fifield and Egnus Leaymun, the two suspects arrested in that city Sunday night. The men gave an accounting as to their whereabouts about the time of the murder and were released from custody. Fifield and Leaymun had been working on the paving job in this city, and, according to their story, had intended starting for Ann Arbor on Saturday night. Fifield has a wife and child in that city and he wished to find employment there. Before the time set for their departure arrived they heard of the murder, and as they were not any too well dressed and the police were making a general round-up of every person who bore any resemblance to a tramp, they concluded to defer their departure until next day, rather than take the chance of being run in on suspicion.

"They left Flint at noon Sunday on a freight train, and after getting dinner at a restaurant in Durand, where they were spotted by an officer, they boarded a freight train for Ann Arbor. Not relishing the prospect of being arrested for stealing a ride they jumped the train as it was entering the railroad yard at Ann Arbor and made a bee-line for an adjacent swamp, where they were discovered by some of Sheriff Gillen's deputies and arrested on suspicion on a telegram received in advance of the arrival from Deputy Sheriff Greene at Durand. The fact that they knew about the murder at Flint lent color to the suspicion that they were concerned in the crime, and they were locked up pending the arrival of the sheriff from Flint.

"Sheriff McCall brought back with him the 22 caliber revolver found on one of the suspects. All the chambers were found to be loaded and an inspection of the cartridges showed that they had all evidently been in the chambers for a long time."