, 1884-12-17

mouse 10 the door oil the tront1room, Mrs
Butler opened it, and BY the light Of a
lamp discovered Duran lying on the bed
Not knowing that Duran had committed
suicide, but supposing him to be the muir
derer of Mrs. Sanchez, she fed from the
door and hurriedly informed Mr.. Cow
hick Of her discovery. He at once ran to
the Court House and informed Sheriff
Sharpless of the tragedy. While Mr..
Cowhick was absent, neighbors placed the
wounded woman in her bed in the middle
room. They also learned from Mrs.
Lambert that Duran had fired a second
shot after shooting Mrs. Sanchez and
they were satisfied that he was dead or
dying, but they did not dare to enter the
room. As soon as he arrived upon the
scene, Sheriff Sharpless entered the front
room, accompanied by Mr.. Cowhick.
Duran was lying with his hack upon the
bed, and his feet. hanging over the side
of the bed, rested lightly upon the floor.
A very hasty Investigation showed that
the man was dead, and closing the door.
Sheriff Sharpless sent for DR.. Marston
AMI Coroner Chafhn.
THE CORONER AND THE DOCTOR.
DR.. Marston and Coroner Chafin ar
rived at the house about the same time.
A glance satisfied the medical gentleman
that Bonito Duran was dead and he
turned his attention to the woman. The
ball had struck her in the back, as stated,
had passed through the right lobe OF the
lungs and had inflicted a mortal wound.
He administered a quoting medicine and
obtained from the woman the statement
of the manner Of the shooting as previ-
ously given in this article. After Coroner
Chafin arrived a more careful examina
ton was made of the body of Duran. He
lay upon his back with his right arm flung
out at a n angle with his body and in his
hand he still grasped the revolver. An
examination Of the pistol showed two
empty chambers. When he turned the
pistol toward himself he held it so close
to his body that the powder burned
through his clothing and penetrated the
flesh. The ball entered his right breast,
passed through the lungs and buried it
self in his spinal column, shattering the
vertabra and causing almost instant
death. Duran doubtless stood at the side
of the bed when he shot himself and fell
backwards upon it after firing the fatal
bullet.
Coroner Chafin summoned a Jury con-
sisting of Messrs. ]. r. Whitehead, W.
W. Jeffrey H. W. Moore, A. Nichols,
A Ringolskey and c. F. Miller. The
jury examined the body of the dead man,
listened to whatever statements Mrs.
Sanchez chose to make and adjourned
until to-day, pending the result of the
woman's wound. The body of the muir
derer and suicide was her taken to War
ren's undertaking rooms.
BoNrTo DURAN AND r SANCHEZ.
Some nine or ten years ago, Juan
Bcnito Duran, then a youth, worked for
Nh. A. Blackhurst, the father of Mrs.
Sanchez, and the husband of Eleanor
Lambert. This was at Loyeland, Colo
RADIO.
Also working on the ranch was one
Modesto Sanchez. Now, Duran was a
handsome young fellow, quite intelligent,
and more enterprising than most of his
class, while Modesto Sanchez was a short,
sturdy man, cross-eyed, and more dis
tinctly a typical Mexican. Sanchez loved
Adella, Or Della, as she was commonly
called, and eventually married her. For
some reason Mrs. Blackhurst was divorced
from her husbadd, and together with
Sanchez and his wife, went to California,
where they lived some time. In the
meantime Bonito Duran roamed around
Northern Colorado and Southern Wyo-
ming, working on various cattle and sheep
ranches.
In the Spring of 1888, Modesto San
chez, his wife and children, and Mrs.
Blackhurst, who had assumed the name
of Lambert, settled in Evanston, Wyo-
ming, and last May they came to Chey-
enne Duran was working on the sheep
ranch of George L. Poland, near Hills
dale, but CHANGING to be in the city one
day, shortly after the others arrived, he
met them on the street. His appearance
had changed with the years, and he was
not recognized by his former friends. He
revealed his identity, however, and al
most Immediately became an intimate
friend of the family. Sanchez is rather a
shiftless fellow and at that time lived in a
grout house in the bottoms, " on West
Sixteenth street. To shorten q long story
Bonito Duran obtained employment for
Sanchez as a sheep herder on the ranch
of I. B. Chaffee, which adjoins that Of
Nh. Poland, near Hillsdale, and Mrs.
Sanchez secured a position with Mrs.
Bishop, on Eddy street, as a seamstress.
During the past Fall and Summer Bonito
Duran, the handsome and dashiug Mexi-
can, was a constant visitor at the home OF
the Sanchez family and partly, perhaps,
through his advice, the family moved to
their present home. Monday afternoon
Bonito Duran arrived in Cheyenne from
HillAdale, bringing a few sheep to the
city and riding a horse belonging to his
employer. He visited a friend named J..
B. Archuleta, a Mexican, who lives in
the grout house formerly occupied by the
Sanchez family. There he remained until
about dark. and saying that he would re-
turn in a short time departed. He evi
IDENTIFY went directly to the home of the