Arizona republican., 1898-04-20
Aaron Powell, Uncle of Miss
 SeaSs, Under Arrest
THE COR0NER'S INQUEST
Slaughter by Hanson Without
 Revocation.
The Story of the Killing Told by tho Witnesses. Exciting Scene Be- tween Participants Prior to the Fatal Ending.

The inquest in the death of Carl
 Zech, killed by A. J. Hanson at Zech's s ranch, nine miles south of Tempe, on
 Monday, was concluded yesterday be- fore Justice Myers at Tempe. The jury found that the killing of Zech was will
 full and without >provocation. Aaron Powell, the uncle of Miss Seass, with
 whom Zech and his father-in-,aw had been in litigation and who had taken | part in the fight immediately preced-
 and lodged in jail by Sheriff Orme last night. No charge has been formu- lated against him yet, but he will probably be accused of an assault with a deadly weapon.
 No time has been set for the pre- liminary examination of either Hanson
 or Powell, but both will probably be arraigned in Justice Johnstone's court today.
 The inquest did not develop much in addition to The Republicans story yes terday of the killing. Eight or ten
 witnesses were examined and notw1th- standing that some of them were inter
 ested the testimony was not very di- ! vergent considering the excitement
 which prevailed just before and at the time of the tragedy. The most i'm
 portant testimony was the written ] statement of J. A. Wager, who was too ill to attend the inquest He was standing about 100 yards away while l the trouble was going on. Hanson and ] Powell came up, the former on horse
 back and the latter in a buggy Both I inside the fence on his own land. Powell got out of the buggy and going 1 up to the fence hit Zech on the head I twice, each time knocking him down. | Then Hanson went through the fenoe
 and struck Zech. After that the men
 grappled and Hanson was thrown to
 his hands ard feet. While he was ris- l ing Hanson fired the fatal shot.
 Another witness was Guy Collins, a
 brother-in-law of Hanson. He was | | out the tragedy. His story is more | complete than that of any other wit l ness. Miss Seass went to Zech's place accompanied by a Mexican and Peter Koch, a Dane, to clean out the ditch.
 When Zech opposed them Miss Seass
 went to Gant's house and procured the help of Hanson and her uncle, Aaron
 Powell. The former borrowed a gun of Collins, and the latter got one at Gant's. When they arrived at Zech's
 place he was waiting for them inside the fence with a gun. Hanson and Powell aimed at Zech and threatened
 to shoot Zech threw his shirt front open and cried, Shoot; here's your
 target!" He went on to say: Il
 have a wife and two children to take
 care of" Powell replied: "Then you'd
 better shut your mouth and go away . There was some further parleying buggy and going to the fence hit Zech
 with the barrel of his gun. Zech l staggered and Powell hit him again.
 knocking him down. He knocked him down the third time, breaking his gun. By that time Hanson had g<-e through the fence. There was a short hand to-hand encounter, after which the men leveled their guns at each other. Each seemed to be waiting for the other. to fire and each lodged twice,
 and up to this time probably neither intended to do so or really expected that the other would. The guns were lowered twice. Finally Hanson slipped 1 and Sell on uneven ground and while he was rising fired. Zech dropped his gun, folded his arms, walked to the ditch, lay down in the water and with his hands threw it upon his wounded face.
 Hanson ran to him and for a short
 time threw water on his wounds. Then
 he and Miss Seass went away.
 Miss Seass story was quite different
 from that of the others and slightly
 different from that she told the day
 before She was somewhat dramatic
 in what was evidently an exaggeration
 of Zech's conduct before the shooting.
 A Mexican, Evaristo Salazar, saw
 the killing, but he had been too badly
 frightened to remember what had ac- tually occurred. He said that after the
 fight with Powell and Hanson, Zech
 ran away and called for Jake Davis and was immediately shot, At one time he said Zech had no gun. Then
 again he said that he had thrown it away before the shooting.
 Sam Gish, a neighbor, saw no part