The border vidette., 1899-09-16
MYSTERY OF THE PAJARiTOS.
Body of Murdered Man Found
Hanging to the Limb of Tree.

Domingo Bueno, vaquero, IN per
forming his duty in searching for
lost horse came upon the body OF
man hanging to the limb of tree near
the summit of the divide in the foot
hills of the Pajarito mountains between
Chino and Russell Canons.
The man probably never travelled
faster in his life than he did in going
from the scene of his discovery to the
nearest ranch house, FIVE miles away.
where he met his employer Charles
Casanova, druggist of Nogales lie
told Casanova of his discovery and
was at once ordered to proceed to No
gales and report the circumstances to
an officer of the law. Sheriff Brodilck
and Judge Mix were advised OF the
conditions and the latter at once or
dered the empanelment of jury
The minautia of the law vas at once
executed, and without details of
night trip to an unknown region an
inquest on the corpse of an unknown
man was begun at midnight Ga the
north side of mountain ridge.
At the beginning no one had any
evidence; the identity of the body was
totally mystery. The only thing the
Jury knew vas that Bueno reported
in Nogales that he had found body
10 or II miles north west of Nogales
in the mountains; that it was necessary
in couformance with the conditions e.
the law te inVes. gate the manner and
cluse of the death of the unknown.
5 Accordingly the jury left Nogales
r at o'clock in the afternoon OF Mon
: day and finally, after travelling roac
D that reminded one much of his mi
tiation into a secret society, the body
l. was found. The hour was nearl " mid
# night. And after careful view OF tn
e corpse by the meager rays of on
d lantern the inquest on tn
body was begun on the mort
,r slope of the summit of that Saountalr
1t was the experience of a lifetime. Th
r traditional burial of NJ oses was recalle
as the party of Santa Cruz citizens sa
IN on that mountain side in deliberate
as to the cause acid manner OF deaf
es of the unknown. Rays from that OF
lantern outlined in the dark the d
IT. termined faces of the jury and its a
sistants and filtered beyond and s.
all houetted in the grewsome night tt
figure of the subject of that inquiry.
re- The body WIS first discovered
Domingo Bueno Good Sunday
mr. CalaLasas. He was in search OF
IS. horse owned by Charles Casanova,
ur- druggist of Nogales. Immediate
after the discovery, Bueno hurri
ct down to the ranch house of the Eight
Three ranch, five miles away, whe
ks Casanova was waiting and told h
of his find. He at once sent Bue
in to Nogales to report the facts
Sheriff Brodrick and Judge NJ
err These gentlemen at once emFane
the following jurors, who at OIL
ING started to find the body: Alfonso
chellier, John Faulds, VIM. Behren
Co. Capt w J. EKey, j. T. Barrin g
So E. A. Wyatt and A. 3 Barring
.ed- City Marshal Flewel.ing, Fred Dor
stein, Oscar Gebler, Lewis Fleiscl
SER H. G. Ott and representative Of l
V1DErTE accompanied the pal
ndi- Marshal Flewelling gave officers
jury valuable aid. At dark, a /
Gods was made at the Potrcro ranch ADJ
am. ing the Eighty-Threo to wait
Bueno. who had staid back in NJ
we'd les. Mr.. Flew cling rode back to
for gales, nearly five miles to hasten
nc coming. Before he returned with
to guide, Messrs. Gebler; OFT, Fleis'
in and two or three others drove bae
or. Morales in one of tho wagons. A
and o'clock, the jury and officers sta
not in wagons The trail led nearly
miles through Chino canon to the
aye" of the hill upon which the Oooy OF
81 80 unknown was found At that F
inter- the party left the wagons and wa
fur more than half Il mile over the I
lest country imaginable. The
vices moon at this time hid behind the '
Ii. or,, l,ilIr and the RI NS of one Ian