The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-31
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS


Tuscon. A. j. 29.-The Stars Mskds-
lena special Gays that a. Z. Hesslng was
killed on the road from hermsllio TO
Elploma, IN Sonora by bis BODY servant.
Hessing had gone to HermsldO to draw
81, 600 to pay the hands IN his mine on
the rancho Gsbilan, and Wa. proceeding
without an escort. The servant prob
ABLY shot him from behind as one bullet
wound was found 10 his bod and his
head was terribly msngled as il beaten
with 8 club. Ia reporter of the Star
WAS dispatched from Hermosillo, yester-
day, to The scene of the tragedy, and
definite news will be received from him
within the next twenty hours. The place
where He,sing was killed is 3 long DIS
tanee from the nearest telegraph and
particulars are difficult to OBJ ain, as they
Can only be brought by messenger The
news Of the homicide first found its way
TO the public through Governor Ortez of
Sonora, who considers ais information
relisb bic. The friends of HessiDg here,
however. distrust the intelligence and
hope that it may prove uniOunded There
Is, nevertheless. little room for such hope.
Chicago, 80 Nothing later has been
received by A. q. HessiLg's family re-
garding his alleged death. The iStGdts-
Zeitun0, this morning, accepts as con-
elusive the statement of vice-consul
Bartning that the story is q canArd, and
Mr.. Washington Hessing coneurs 10 this
opinion, arguing that the consul would
not telegraph q contradiction except on
positive information, Mrs. A. q. Hes
sing, whose life would be endangered by
the sudden shock, was kept in ignorance
of the report as she has been aware Of
the danger to which Mr.. Hessing has
constantly been exposed since his sojourn
in that section. de himself has in one
letter TO- eshAdowed tragic end 10 his
strangely adventurous career:
At 1890 this morning no later news
was received ct the StGats-ZeitWRg Office.
Following 10 the dispatch received at
2:3O o'clock this morning:
Washington HeSSing, Los Angeles, Cali
foTTiG, AH01GOt 20:
The report in the Tucson Star about
The killing OF your father is untrue.
Await letters from Sonora.
(Signed) II. FARMING.
American vice consul.
Washington BLESSING has the theory
that the report fthe murder Of his father
arose from the confusion of the relation
ship, and that the real victim was bis
nephew, August Arck, who had already
made the trip to Hermosillo to get funds
and who greatly resembled the elder
HessinG. 1t was not likely that in dan
gerous times, when his ranch was threat
eneS by Indians, as Hessing had written
that it was, that be would leave 1t ard
expose himself TO the further danger Of
travelling WITH 3 large sum of money
over q distance of $50 miles. He had
never carried the money before, and
there was no apparent reason for doing
go then. Hessjng had an understanding
with Consul wi lard and Vice-Consu
Bartning, to forward promptly any news
coed or bad, from the ranch, which il
practically 800 miles from telegraph
communication.
San Francisco, 30.-A Los Angelo
dispatch: Il. Bartning. of GuAymss, min
ing partner of "Boss" Hessing, who Ar
rived in the city to-day, says the reported
killing Of Hessing is q canard. He lei
Hessing but few days ago miles away
from the scene of the murder. he say
the report grew out of the killing b.
Apaches of two men named Hord anC
Noble, whom Hessi1g had sent 10 Quay
mas to procure money to pay of hi
hands. BArtning further denies the storie
ia circulation in reference to the revolu
ton in Sonora. He says the government
has merely called out troops TO suppress
the ApAches.
Chicago. Washington Hessing
this afternoon, received letter from ri
father, dated 18th, which, from the ma
ture Of its contents, decides conclusivel
10 his mind that it was nor his father, b.
the two employees, who we're murderer
while making their passage from To
mine to the ranch. The vice-consul
not the partner of the elder Hessing, b.
simply q personal friend.