Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-30
PRISON POINTS.
The County Jail and fts Inmates -A Chat
 win MnnacIed Murtlerern

win ManacIed Murderer Yesterday afternoon a CITIZEN scribe paid visit to the county jail and spent | an hour looking through the institution and conyerslng with the inmates. When | the reporter called the prisoners had
 been let out of the jail into the yard for exercise and to await the arrival of the | afternoon meal On entering the yard the first man the man of news confront
 ed was John Murphy, who at once called
 his companions, Dave Gibson and Wm. | Mover with the remark -here, boys, here
 IS the CITIZEN man, you know him." Those three, as most of our readers know, are charged with the murder of Leavy, the particulars of which are still | fresh m the minds of every citizen. They | occupy cell or room No. l, and seem to | be well supplied with ordinary luxuries. | They are in the best of health and seem- ! ingly in good spirits and MT. Murphy
 assured the reporter that they would | before long repay the visit. Murphy and Gibson do not eat with the other | prisoners but have their meals brought
 to them from the Palace Hotel, for the
 reason, Murphy iokingly remarked, that ! be dld not want to owe Pima county for l anything except room rent and the | iewelry (shackles) he wore. While ths
 reporter was talking with Murphy and | Gibson. Sang Lee came up and although he understands but little English paid great attention to the conversation and looked at the reporter with half smile
 playing around hIs evenly chiseled features. Sang Lee Is charged wlth killing q man at Tar Flat some time
 about the first Of March and is likely to have a good deal of trouble Tn explain ing that he was Tn the rIght. He is Il small man about 25 years of age and has little the appearance of a dangerous
 character.
 Lujan is a Papago Indian and is charged with the murder about three
 months ago, in the southern part of the
 city, of son of Chief Lowi of the
 Papago tribe. II lis is Said to have been
 cool aud deliberate murder and one
 that will likely bring about hemp
 stretching matinee. Lujan got the idea
 iuto his head that his sister had been
 bewitched by the Papago chiefs son and
 he deliberately shot him. Another
 Papago who witnessed the killing k
 held In confinement as witness.
 Jim HanleY IS a stout Irishman ahout 5 years of age and Is charged with the
 murder of man named Lewis on the railroad at Tar Flat.
 Leon Refugio, Is charged with the murder of a man near Camp Thomas more than two years ago and has been an inmate of the Pima county jail for two years. He was indicted here, but belongs to Graham county. As no court has ever been held in that county he has never had a trial.
 Frank Morton has been in jail but few days, having last week been brought up from Sonora by Sheriff Paul. Frank Is charged with the murder of a man named Roberts at the old hacienda in ! the Santa kltas, not long since After 1 the killing he had an examination be- i fore a justice uf the peace at Tubac. and ! was liberated, but subsequently, further | evidence Tn the case was brought to 1 light and he was rearrested.
 The last on the list of those charged l with murder IS J. H. Webber, who a l couple of months ago, while night l watchman at l.. Zeckendorf < Co.'S got | too much nose paint aboard and | hourished a revolver with sU much !. recklessness that man named Hinton l was killed.
 Philip Johnson, Hosea Sepulyeda and | the redoubtably John Smith are held on charges of grand larceny, and Joseph Casey and D. A. Wetoner will be called upon to answer to the charge of rob bery.
 Eugenio Salazar stabbed d mnn twenty-fOur times with a knife and is held on a charge of assault with intent to kill The others making a total of thirty-one are charged with minor several of them serving county jail sentences. The fair sex has no re- presentation in the institution.
 Great care is taten to keep the jall clean and the task IS DO easy one, for tue reason that the floors are of earth and SO many are of necessity crowded into one room. The inmates have two meals day; breakfast at seven o'clock and dinner at four o'clock. Before meals are served, the prisoners ure all et out into the yard and all honr is pent m the morning and in the after I,','" iu cleaning house"
 The rp 'orter is indebted tO Jailrr :, .arsey and Officer Sherard for nnn:- .-l,'is-- s,--'.,Tcrs during his ramble among he prisoners.