Arizona republican., 1896-06-14
HE STABBED HIS UNCLE Probably Mortal Wound Inflicted. The Result of Too Much Poor Wine.
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All Persons Concerned Were in- toxicated-A Vicious Family's m
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Crisanto Valenzuela lies at the cOlrn- ty hospital stabbed, it is believed, unto death, the knife that did the deed hav- ing been in the hands of Juan ValeI1- zuela, his nephew. t
 The trouble occurred yesterday after noon in a little group of miserable brushwork huts north of the MarieopR. & Phoenix roundhouse Here both participants lived. They, as well as number of neighbors, had bought a quantity of so-called wine. made by an Italian in the vicinity. ''Its horrible stuff" said Joe Ybarra, witness. 'sH's made out of anything except grapes and isn't properly fermented and will set any man crazy that drinks 1t, and yet l have seen children in the store and it's cheap enough for the poorest ,,
 Ybarra, who is a selling agent for Chapman brothers, grocers, was. in thAs store of Joe Alvarado, across the street. when the row began. They ran across and were in time to see the bloody. work.
 There seemed to have been no cause for the fight, save the evil influence of the liquor and the natural meanness of the combatants. Jose Segura and An tonic Ochoa, who were nearby, saw a knife flash in the hands of Juan and jumped forward to secure it, only to be driven back. Then Juan, driving thH older man backward foot by foot to his very home, and in the presence of Crisanto's wife, stabbed him repeat edly. The others had rallied nerve, however, and one of them, ended the frou Inv ocb o hot If. Juan's head. Constable Porterie hap pened along about this time and gath cred in all the participants, the young CT Valenzuela bleeding profusely from the wounds on his head. The three were taken to the county jail.
 Crisanto Valenzuela will, it is be- lieyed, die. His wounds consist of a deep cut in the shoulder, another just above the heart, which only was saved by the ribs, a third vicious cut ill the abdomen and several less important stahs. The wounds were dressed by Dr. Hughes. s-
 The wounded man is about SO years of age, his nephew being about 30. Crisanto's wife, aG, aged dame, was much affected by the occurrence, but was, to acknowledge the truth, about as drunk as she could get without be- ing somnolent.
 The couple have one child, all idiot, deaf and dumb, now about 40 years of age, and who is the only professional beggar known to Phoenix His lower limbs are paralyzed and his mode of operations is to be placed on a large, especially solemn looking burrc. with n 1,1onaI nsk d, xI to work his way to the residences of the Mexicans throughout the city. Be- fore each door he will stop, without sound or an indication of life till pro- vision is brought him The woman of the house invariably comes out with bread or meat and places the food in the panniers. Then the beggar moves on to the next house. He was cut Aon his rounds yesterday H-hen the trouble was in progress.
 The Valenzuela family as a who.a are a bad lot and have figured prominently in the criminal annals of the county. It was Valenzuela who killed Super intendent Gribble Of the Vulture mine and the family Is supposed to have been responsible for the awful murder CT the Martin family on the Hassay- anpa desert about the same time. Few are the terms of the district court in which the name does not figure.
 Those people should rot be called Me1icans, said an intelligent Mexican who had been present. Really. they are choios, of the lowest class of Mex lcan Indian. Some people call them Yaquis, but even that is probably a mis- take. All they have in sympathy with Mex1cans is an ability to speak the language to some degree"
 Juan Valenzue1a will be held to await the result of his uncIe,s wo,,nds