Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-11-29
THE MURDERED MAN.
,su,t,h of the Life of W. <. FritI ,.,.n,Iy Murdered in the Huachuea
 Mountains.

r.,.nlIy Murdered in the Huachuoa
 Mountains.
 .,ro-t was current on the streets
 .rfping that the murderers of the .[,,,,n boy Qumones in the Huaehu,
 L,5 been apprehended, and tha; ''' u,-e the Duncan brothers and | ~ ,sr,ei Stormy Jim. As the same
 ,s are suspected of the murder of
 r-i,z- RafIerty- Raymond party, the I, .u,,nc sketch of the life of the mur- -.imau Fritz, published for the first i, ,le Denver Republican, may be ,...s-s,t to the people in this section:
 rL, NJ. Fritz, Superintendent of
 y,ose nine at Alma, left Denver .- ,-,z1na yesterday, on a mission ~ 's..,I l, as sad to him ss the case is s---l interesting. On October his -'..1- Winfield 5. Fritz, his wife, " H..lerty. his partner, and Joseph sa---,-,,3. l. hired man, were found ia. ia.-5s-a6 on their ranch. located Tn ---,1, -.-S,.s county. The atrocIOus murder 1,,-I, I,,Smmitted by two cowboys, who .sH- 3,el to prevent the four mur- ----,i ra-sons from giving information to 4, -'.'t ,,u-t officers in regard to the ..--s.,,r, .-, Of a Mexican boy, which crime -,-, -,,7nmi,ted on May 7th, md the s....-,,jon of which the two cowboys l',l..,,gssI. NIT. Fritz, the deceased,
 '-'; n three years in Leadville, and
 ''7-isis wife were we'll known there.
 I..- vss engaged Tn mining, and when <. I'. there, ID 1882, he was possessed
 = .srs-al thousand dollars Tn cash. ~-s6 .c-astGs brother only learned of .-- wholesale murder few days ago. .-i sr once hastened to the scene.
 Vr. Fritz. although comparatively a --rrr man. had an adventurous career, .-ibsi visited nearly every quarter of .-s Western hemisphere before settling ',-rD ID far of Arizona. For several -.-r. subsequent to 1870 he was In nth America, being employed as an s-,i1ee- by General Meiggs in bis ele- r.,si railway building in Cnili and F.r. N1t be was engaged in the oil --. 4 Ak ALAas AGA AAG vs.- at DeadwoOd, Mrs. Fritz being n. first woman to ride from Bismarck n ,he new gold fields. Then he en- -,-el n business at Chicago, being s--1t for a mining machinery company. H- came tO Colorado when Lead vs trs. started and remained there r-i1trrruptedly for two years. He lien let his wife there and made telueut excursions to various parts f ,Ge western country. He sold a me n ArIz5ns for S40,O0O and placed t5s rz8Ley n the bank of Tucson, which i,.5i within a week and Fritz lost his - ney. He went back to Leadville, and % leaving there for gcod in 1882, car Tel away with him about SS.000 in cssl .D LIs wife almost an equal amount. Es worked al mining awhile, and then 2 ugh; the ranch on which he was ---le-ei, taking as a partner James b4-.5rty. sn old time friend. The ranch Eas large one, and at the time of the -urier had on It about 1000 head of 1 ,s.te. Fritz wrote to his brother that -s expected to make Arizona his future | :, DC, and he was making extensive inn --oysments In the way of barns, etc, | -l tae ranch. In the fall of 1883 he l Els a,t3-ei a position by the Northern | .sc.5e railway in engineering and l beating coal lands for the road, and -a Le.i the position until early this | :Fang, when he resigned and went back | D his ranch. That was the last heard | I nm by his brother, who has now ,0ls to settle up his affairs, until he | esd ID New York newspaper a few resgre lines announcing hIs brothers | lurder.