Arizona republican., 1898-04-19
Killing Of Carl zech by A. J.
 Hanson Yesterday.
THE SLAYER NOW IN JAIL
Another Incident in the SeasS
 Zech Litigation
The Natural Result of Employing Shotgun Tn Irriaating. Two Di- verRent Stories are Told of the Dispute and It's Trsgic Ending.


 An incident, this time bloody one, of the many incidents of the Seass- Zech ditch controversy occurred yes terday. A. J. Hanson, foreman for Miss Seass, the plaintiff, shot and killed Carl Zech at the home of the latter nine miles south of Tempe I'm mediately after the killing he left for Phoenix accompanied by Miss Seass. He arrived here late in the afternoon and surrendered himself at the sher- ifs office and was locked up pending his preliminary examination, the date of which has not yet been set.
 The killing was the natural result of going after water with a shovel and irrigation has been extensively en- ployed in most arid countries, ire quently with fatal results. It had been predicted in this case that the litigation which has been in progress since early last December would be attended by slaughter.
 The killing came about in the follow 1 ing manner: On Saturday about noon ] Judge Street issued another order in ] the Seass-Zech case modifying pre-
 vious orders permitting Miss Seass to l reopen a ditch running across a cor , ner of the land of the Zechs, Charles Zech and his son-in-law, Carl Zech. The order of permission closed as fol 1 lows, "on the failure of the defend 1 ants to open the ditch forthwith The order was served upon the Zechs after 10 o'clock yesterday morn | ing. The elder Zech, acting upon pre- 1 vious instructions from his attorney
 Judge Kibbey, to advise with him l whenever a new feature of the case
 was presented, came to Phoenix with
 the deputy sheriff. He saw his attor-
 ney, who advised him to obey the or | der Of the court unQuestioningly, and
 zech went away promising to do so.
 He had hardly left Judge Kibbey's of-
 lice when telephone message was received at the sheriff's office from Deputy Sheriff Compton at Tempe say ing that word had just been received | there Of the shooting of Carl Zech. 1 The messenger, Guy Collins, who had
 come from the scene of the shooting, 1 did not know that Zech was yet dead. l An hour later another account of the 1 tragedy was received It was stated
 that shortly after noon, Miss Seass, ] Hanson and couple of Mexicans went ] to the Seass ranch to open the ditch under the courts last order. Hanson l had shotgun beside him and had l commenced cleaning out the ditch
 when Carl Zech approached with a
 shotgun. When within about thirty | feet Hanson seized his shotgun. rose 1 and fired. Seven buckshot took effec:
 in the left side of Zech's face, his neck
 and breast. He dropped his gun, ran
 to the ditch and threw himself into
 the water. He was dragged cut by his
 w1fe A messenger was sent to Tempe
 after Dr. Moore, and Miss Seass direct
 ing one of the MeXicans to attend tc him, set out for Phoenix with Hanson I AS soon as it was known that Feel
 was dead coroner's jury was impan-
 eIed at Tempe and went out to the
 scene of the killing accompanied by i Deputy Sheriff George and Assistant l District Attorney Bullard.
 | The assistant district attorney and l the deputy sheriff returned to the city ! shortly before midnight MT. Bullard
 said that the coroner's inquest had
 been continued until today. He had
 directed that warrant be sworn out for Hanson's arrest in one of the jus tices' courts in Phoenix rather than ir
 Tempe, for the feeling against Hanson
 is so strong there that he feared he
 would meet with violence The req
 story of the killing will only bt
 known upon cross-eXamination, al
 though there were five witnesses. Thre,
 of them tell one story, placing tn,
 blame on Hanson. Miss Seass and al uncle who were present relate a diff l ferent one in support of a theory O. self-defense. But the theory of tn prosecution is that the killing was at . tended by more than ordinary brutal ity and that it was preceded by a fgh in which fists and clubbed guns wer ; used. Beside the buckshot found il
 Zech's face, breast and neck, there i
 a deep gash in the back of his head
 The witnesses for the prosecution vii swear that he was knocked down an
 that when he arose and was backin l away Hanson killed him.
 The story of the tragedy told b t Hanson and Miss Seass is quite differ