Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-07-04
MURDERED.
The Tale of a Crime that Would shame
 An Apache Indian.

The Tale of a Crime that Would shame
 An Apache Indian.
 It will be remembered that the CITI- ZEN short time ago gave the details of the departure of Aryy Kstz, accom- panied by Pablo Soto, for Sonora, to pur- chase cattle, and the anxiety bis long and unexplained absence accustomed his friends and relatives in this city, par ticularly after the return of his riderless horse. It is now quite three months sInce they left Tucson for the land of mafians. well mounted and equipped for a long journey-indeed a far longer Journey than was dreamed of when they
 bid adieu to friends here. Mir. Kstz carried only a small sum of money, poss-
 ibly two hundred dollars in cash, the balance necessary for the purchases to be made being iu drafts payable to his own order.
 When the long absence of both these parties aroused the apprehensions of their friends, messengers were sent out to make inquiries and to find them If possible. An unconfirmed rumOr came to town that they were both alive and well, at a ranch Tn Sonora. awaiting the settlement Ot an estate of which theJ purp1sed purchasing cattle. IL seems, however, that ihIs st, " was pure faO- ricatlop by soms romantic individual
 A few d ,ys ago Mr. Douglass Say der went to ArIvaca In response to informa-
 ton of the finding of charred human remains near that place, to look for means of identification upon the sus- picion that they were the ashes of the unfortunate Mir. KGtZ. He found evil dence of amost brutal murder hay ing been committed and, by means of
 bunch of keys and other articles that withstood the flames by which all evil dence of the crime was sought to be con- cealed, there can be no doubt but the body was that of Arvy Kstz-
 The crlme was committed in a shallow and narrow arroyo, a short distance from the road leading from Arivaca to 5asabe, Sonora, bat this side of the boundary line, about sixty miles from Tucson. The body had been placed crosswlse of the arroyo, and dry grass and brush hesped upon 1t and set on fire. Blood staIns on adjacent rocks indicate that he WAS first killed by blow, probably on the head; h,s money was then taken and his body burned to a crisp. The Mexican who discovered the remains last week, had gathered them, together with the pieces of charred wood and ashes, into a guuny sack anI had buried them. NIT. Snyder caused then: to be exhnmed and also made 6 careful search in the arroyo. He found n the exhumed remains the bunch of keys, winch have since been identified as belonging to Mir. katz, the iron DOT ton of pocket knife, buttons from his garments and some fragments of his which had become saturated with moisture and did not burn. In the arroyo was found a small piece of the scalp that escaped the flames, frsg- ment of a leather belt recognized as hay ms been made by Eccleston for Mrkatz, 1 and near by were two bones that l mad been carried of by the | coyotes and the remaining shFeds of flesh l eaten of The murderer had evidently I aken every possible precauti1n to de- ! 'truy every means of identification and I 10 even obliterate the traces of a murder.
 Some search was also made for the re- mains of SOtc, but without effect, and whether he shared the same fate and lis body burned at the same time as that ,f Mir. haiz was c emated, or that some ,ther adjacent arroyo will unfold the ale of hIs last moments,is yet matter of impl- ccnjrciure. The crime Is stIll trapped m dark mystery aud full in- of the matter will be made | once. The friends and relative- of Ir. katZ in tbis city are overwhelmed nth grief at the terrible fate that hss vertaken hiT, and the mystery that urrpunds the dark affair.
 ihIs morning City Marshal A. G. Iuttner and Chas. A. Shibell. left for .rIvaca to work up the case and obtain lch evidence as they can find bearing ; pon the perpe ration of the crime. hey have been offered a reward of , I, l,0J0 by Marcus Katz. brother of tbe iurdered man, for the arrest and con- iction of the murderer. Messrs. Butt CT and Shibell will bring the remains r D Tucson. ,