Arizona citizen., 1873-07-19
The Salt River Hanging.

The Prescott Miners Phenix cor respondent writes that paper as fol- lows, on July 4:
 On Wednesday morning, B. F. Pat terson, who lives about three miles from town, missed his COW, which had been tied, the night before, a short distance from his house. The cow had evidently been stolen, as the rope with which she was tied had been cut and she had then been driven towards the river by a man on horseback. The COW and driver were tracked through various circuitous windings to Phenix and within three hundred yards of the butcher shop of Refugio Subiate, where were found the head and hide of Patterson's COW and fresh beef just killed. Subiate said he had pur- chased the COW from Mariana Tisnado, before daylight. This Tisnado is the Mexican to whom was traced the ring of the murdered Griffin, to which l referred in @ former letter, and who could not account for how he came by it. Tisnado and Subiate were inn mediately arrested and taken before Justice M. P. Griffin for preliminary examination. The trial of the former came off first and he made no defense, but said that the testimony was all true. The principal witnesses against him were Subiate and his wife. Though the day was extremely warm, during the continuance of the exami- nation, courthouse was full of men, deeply interested in the result. Tis- nado was bound over to appear be- fore the district court for trial. His bail was fixed at $1 ,000 and in default of giving bonds, he was committed to prison. Subiate's examination was set for the next day-the Sd. During the remainder of the day, and till late in the evening, the streets were un- usually crowded with men, calm and quiet, yet looking earnest and de- termined. The sheriff, T. c. Hayes, fearing that an effort would be made to lynch the prisoner, slept in the jail all night. On Thursday morning, July 3, everything was uncommonly quiet. The only noticeable feature was the great influx of farmers from down the valley, up the valley and across the river, all armed to the teeth, all civil and not making as much noise as two drunken men will ordi- narily do. A short time before nine o'clock, being on the street, saw the mass going toward the courthouse square. At half-past six I again went out and asked what the excitement was? A man answered, Nothing, 1t is all over!" I asked "where?" He said "down around Monihon's cor rall :" I then proceeded to the spot indicated, the gate of the corral of Monihon & Starrar, facing on Cortes street, where the man Mariana Tis- nado was hanging by the neck, per- fectly dead, with the shackIes still on his feet The crowd had left before I arrived, so that I saw only an occa- sional curiosity gazer, like myself. The Americans raised money to pay the expenses of burying the man, but the Mexicans begged the privilege of burying him and refused to accept the money. The coroner, Geo. A. Will Hams, held an inquest over the body, after which 1t was turned over to his friends for burial.
 The examination of Refugio Su- plate was then had, which resulted in his acquittal, though he consented to pay Patterson for his COW which he had refused to do the evening before.