RED BUTTE
Arizona - Coconino County - Kaibab National Forest
May 3, 1913: "Harold Green, forest supervisor, returned from Grand Canyon last Wednesday night, where he had been for the past ten days completing plans for a new telephone line. The line will be about seventeen miles long, extending from a line near Grand Canyon south to Red Butte, which is to be the main fire lookout station for the Grand Canyon division of the Tusayan forest." (Williams News)
April 13, 1972: "A federal warrant charging unlawful flight has been issued for Thomas Jay Smith, 48, prime suspect in the late February - early March death of Mrs. Addie Lee Venturini, 46, at an isolated cabin near Grand Canyon.
Sheriff Cecil Richardson said the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix issued the warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution after receiving information from Coconino County Sheriff's investigators.
Information about Smith and on the murder case has gone out to a number of police agencies in areas where Smith is thought to be, Richardson said.
So far, Smith has managed to elude police agencies.
Investigators said Smith, Mrs. Venturini's traveling companion, apparently used a pipe wrench, ice pick and pistol in the violent death of Mrs. Venturini in a Forest Service fire lookout shack on Red Butte, northeast of the U.S. 180 and Arizona 67 Junction south of Grand Canyon." (Arizona Daily Sun)
April 13, 1972: "A federal warrant charging unlawful flight has been issued for Thomas Jay Smith, 48, prime suspect in the late February - early March death of Mrs. Addie Lee Venturini, 46, at an isolated cabin near Grand Canyon.
Sheriff Cecil Richardson said the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix issued the warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution after receiving information from Coconino County Sheriff's investigators.
Information about Smith and on the murder case has gone out to a number of police agencies in areas where Smith is thought to be, Richardson said.
So far, Smith has managed to elude police agencies.
Investigators said Smith, Mrs. Venturini's traveling companion, apparently used a pipe wrench, ice pick and pistol in the violent death of Mrs. Venturini in a Forest Service fire lookout shack on Red Butte, northeast of the U.S. 180 and Arizona 67 Junction south of Grand Canyon." (Arizona Daily Sun)