Arizona republican., 1894-06-12
BUTCHBRY. A MangIed Body Found in a Mexican Tent.
The Victim Ramon, Well Known Chilean.
A Man and Woman Under Ar rest and Another Sought for
Screams and CroanS on Sunday Night Indicate the Time of
 the Bloody Tragedy.

The bloodiest and most brutal mur- der in the history of Phenix was com mitted on Sunday night near the corner of Ninth avenue and Jackson street.
 The victim was Chilean well known but known only as Ramon. The identity of the murderer has not been fixed but the authorities are hunting hotly after Vicente Franco, toward whom almost damning evidence points.
 The body of the murdered man was discovered about 10 o'clock yesterday morning by Rafael Ladena, who as soon as possible, notified Sheriff Murphy. Within a few minutes the officers were at the scene of the tragedy. In a tent consisting of two apartments lay the body of Ramon. The face was covered with dry and drying blood and the ground and blankets and clothing of the murdered man were saturated. Near by lay hatchet whose blade was strangely clean, but whose handle bore the prints of bloody fingers.
 The body lay at the end of g table upon which were pack of cards sug- gesting the possible cause of quarrel which resulted in murder. Other fur niture in the room were bed and a receptacle for dishes and cooking utensils. The body was cold and stiff, indicating that life had been extinct ten or twelve hours. The arms were upraised in 8 position of defense, show ing that life had not been given up without struggle. A heavy hat GOV ering one side of the face and head showed why the blade of the death dealing hatchet might have remained clean during the butchery.
 The unrecognizable mass was taken to Randall X Davis undertaking rooms and when it was washed for examina- tion the ferocity of the murderer was disclosed. The right side of the face was mangled by three deep gaping wounds, the back of the head was hacked in half dozen places. There was also deep cut on the left side of the face and three more back of the right shoulder.
 Justice Kincaid acting as coroner, summoned jury, composed of the fol- lowing persons and inquisltlon was be- gun: W. T. Barr, Thos. Newcomb, E. C. Buehler, Wm. Casey, l.. B. Street, H. Mcdonald, Eugene Angleman, C.. F. Dyer and A. J. Porterie.
 After viewing the body and the place of death, the inquest was adjourned until o'clock. In the meantime each member of the jury was constituted a committee of investigation by which the following facts were uncovered:
 Ramon, the murdered man, lived at a camp about fifty yards southwest of the tent in which his body was found. The tent was owned by Vicente Franco and was occupied by him and woman named Salome Mattas.
 Neither had been seen about the place since the tragedy. Vicente was shoemaker named Callaton Alleman and had also been seen down town with him yesterday morning. Several persons were found who talked with Vicente yesterday and to whom he said: "There's dead man in my house." Vicente was heard of at sa- 1 loon near the depot at 12 o'clock, but after that all trace of him was lost. Two men named Borsch and Holmes at distance of not more than hundred yards from the tent heard, sometime between nine and ten o'clock on Sun day night, quarreling followed by q woman's screams and groans, in the tent. They started in the direction oi the tent but the quietude which sue ceeded the outcry misled them into supposing that only an ordinary Mexi can quarrel had been concluded.
 They believe that the screams were | those of the woman Mattas and the groans were the dying groaps of Ramon ] Other persons heard different sounds l in the tent earlier in the evening, sing 1 ing and laughter and the voices were those of Ramon and the woman. Il was also learned that Ramon was ( frequent caller at the home of Vicente ! during either his presence or absence When the jury convened after nooI it was decided to continue the inquest
 until this morning that additional ev1 dence might be gathered. Shots haC also been heard in the vicinity of tht tent and some of the jury wanted al examination of the wounds to deter mine whether they had all been made
 with the hatchet or whether the mutt
 lation occurred after pistol ball haG
 silenced the victim.
 Beside, warrants had been issued fo
 Vicente, the woman Msttas and tho
 shoemaker Alleman. They were il
 the hands of three officers who wer,
 securing the town aud the apprehen
 sion of all or one of the persons wanted
 would simplify the bloody problem.
 Soon after the inquest adjourned Dep 1 uty Constable Porterie reported that h,
 had found the woman. She was at tn
 house of Juan Alatorez. She WAS late
 arrested and brought to jail. She de
 nied that she knew anything about tn murder. She said that she had no
 been at the tent since on Sunday a noon. A woman's clothing howeve