El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-25
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MURDER AT pEARCE
A Young Deputy Constable Put Six
Shots Into d Highly Respected
Merchant, Because OF a Dispute
Over a Lodn.-Jail Well Guard

Special Correspondence OF the HERALD.
| PEARCE, Ariz.., lOct. A.-Below
please find details of q cold bloode
murder of popular citizen and mer-
| chant, who was highly respect
ed by every one. Chris Robi-
son was the deceased. A
deputy constable, Sidney Page, is a kid
of about 21 years, who in the estim stion
of most of the citizens should never
larger than a small pen knife. AS soon
as be was allowed to pack gun he be-
| came, as he thought, one of the most
| important ''men' in town.
/ He had habit of borrowing money
| on the strength of his position aud this
| is what led up to and caused the trou
BILE, according to evidence. He had
about $50 and Robson asked
it. They probably had a few wore e.
Anyway some time afterwards Robi-
son had just finished his supper in the
Chinese restaurant about 6 p. m. and
was sitting outside his place of business
talking with two others when Sid Page
came out of an alleyway not five feet
behind Robson and stood over
him and fired five shots into Robson,
according to the statements of three or
witness. While on the other hand
gam bier says there was strong Ian
guage used before q shot was fred
and that Robson fired the
first shot. This gamblers statement
is believed by about two or three of his
friends. He is notorious as having
been in every shooting scrape and
quarrel in the town, as the star wit
ness for defendant except in one case.
There was considerable talk last
night about a lynching bee, and all
they wanted was leader. Up to 1:3O
a. m. there were groups at every cor
ner. The jail, however, was amply de-
Tended by cowboys who are friends of
the murderer.
Page fred shots in Robisons
body and one into his foot, as near as
can be learned. This morning there is
evidently plan on foot to prove the
takes mot, he will be shown up as
perjurer, as 1 cannot find any
one of the witnesses whose
story will agree with his, though these
other Witnesses all agree practically.
There is liable to be trouble If the
murderer is taken to Tombstone, our
county seat, for trial, as that is the
home of the deceased, and he has
many friends.
The coroner's jury will meet this
morning at o'clock and if. anything
new developes | will Aou to this letter
p. m.-The coroner's jury is now
sitting on the case. The preponder-
ance of evidence is decid-
edly against the accused, though one
juryman is showing by his questions
that he intends to prevent unanimous
verdict of guilty. This Is simply q
surmise. The deceased will be shipped
from A. 0. u. w. hall to Tom bstone
there to be buried beside his wife aud
one child.
Three girls and two boys are left
orphans by this assassin's bullets They
aro Ethel, Edith, another girl whose
name do not know, and Ralph and
Curtis.
The wounds were two shots through
right eide of body. one through right
wrist breaking same, one through left
shoulder, one through back, and one
through left foot at ankle. The first
two were fatal.