Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-06-16
Murderer Caacens. E.oan..


 ChAcon, the Graham county mur- derer, has lifted a great responsi- bility from the shoulders of Ari- zona's chief executive, by cutting his way out of Soiomonville's alleged jail. He not only secured respite for himself from hanging, but in all probability has secured his perma- nent freedom thus taking his case out of the governors jurisdiction. Speaking of the escape the Phenix Republican has the following:
 Whoever may be to blame for the escape, Chscon certainly was not. There are several things that contributed to his departure. It is said there IS a sentiment in Graham county amounting almost to a re- ligious fervor, against hanging. The jail is the most insecure in the terri tory, being part of Little Steve's" $20,000 adobe court house building. Chacon, in deference to the senti- ment of the community on the sub ject of capital punishment and probably holding antagonistic views himself, naturally took his depart ure, having been informed that the governor meant to do nothing for him. His precipitate going just at that particular time is regarded as an exhibition of bad taste or the part of himself and those who were supposed to be engaged in guarding hin. 1.-The had remained in jail, say a week, he would still have had time to get away before the date of his execution. Public attention would not then have been so sharply drawn to the coincidence of his flight and the governors refusal to exercise executive clemency. The governor received a letter yesterday from Judge Rouse, who had sentenced him to be hanged. It was the letter expected by Chaeon's attorney, Nc Cullum, the day before. The judge writes that at the time he imposed the sentence, he believed death would fit his crime. Since then he is of the opinion that the sentence was too harsh, but when the case came back, affirmed, from the su- preme court, he was unable to miti- gate the punishment in re-senten- cing him.
 Before the governor received Judge Rouse's letter he got the tele- gram informing him that Chacon was beyond the need of gube7- material mercy. His escape has also likely estopped the habeas corpus proceedings which his attorney was going to begin at Tucson yesterday, for what is the use of habeas cor pus when the corpus is roaming about, nobody knows where or whitheri
 "This is not Chacon's first escape from jail. A year ago he walked away one evening. just before dark. The officers went about the vicinity making inquiry for him. The in quirv developed into a hunt in which many public spirited citizens joined. Among them was ". B. Kelly, of the Bulletin. It was not quite dark and ChAcon was hiding in ditch concealed by dense un- derbrush with which the suburbs of Solomonville are much embellished. He was waiting for night, who was going to attend him on his journey to Mexico.
 In the course of MT. Kelly's in vestigations in that vicinity he stumbled and fell into the ditch upon Chacon. He advertised his discovery on the first page next To pure reading matter and sat around on Chacon waiting for answers to his advertisement. The other search CTS came up and Chacon was taken back to his place of alleged confine- ment.
 After his conviction he was taken to Tucson. The chance of escaping from the Pima county jail was so slight that he was removed back to Solomonville after the supreme court announced it's decision to let him hanU