The Arizona sentinel., 1900-10-10

Blair and Saunders, two citizens c whom their neighbors should be proud
 chased to earth a most dastardly mur } derer and e1torted complete confess l ion from him within forty-eight hour from the time they started on the trail Ortiz had a preliminary hearing be fore Justice Bloomer at HarrisburC
 and was remanded without bail H. wss brought to Yuma and has been il tine county jail since-nearly two mOnths-&pparently indifferent to hi
 probable fate. though he did manage to file or cut his shackles recently, bu the effort to get away was futile, anC he was arraigned for trial in the dis trict court Thursday afternoon. Orti: pleaded not guilty. The trial wal short, as there were few witnesses, but the evidence was so conclusive that the jury only took one ballet, and every man voted guilty of murder in the first degree penalty, death. His attorney made all the fight possible for him, but there was, in fact, no defense to make Counsel for defense was H. c. Davis Esq, of Yuma. The prosecution was ably conducted, every necessary point of evidence being brought out clearly by District Attorney Brown.
 On Saturday morning, promptly at g o'clock. Ortiz was brought into court to receive his sentence.
 All proceedings of the court were in- terpreted to the prisoner by the court interpreter, J. H. Redondo.
 The judge first referred to the crime of the prisoner and quoted from the in- dictment by the grand jury; then called attention to the fact that Ortiz had been arraigned to the indictment and was given the statutory time to plead, the plea being "not guilty" that he had been regularly tried by jury. which found him guilty of murder in the first degree and assessed the pen alty of death. Judge Street then asked through the court interpreter:
 ''Have you any legal reason to show why judgment and sentence may not be pronounced upon you?"
 At this point Mir. DaviS the prison er's counsel, stated to the court that he had seriously contemplated asking for a new trial, but had changed his mind, as there were ''no glaring irregularities that would justify review or a re- versal of the judgment,". but would appeal to the Governor direct for 8 communication of the sentence from death to life imprisonment.
 This conversation then took place:
 The Court addressing Mir. Davis ]: "You may ask him yourself if he has anything to say why judgment should not be pronounced"
 The Prisoner (through the inter- preter); 'I think so.''
 The Court: "What is it 2"
 The prisoner; That I haven't killed the gentleman MOn1UU.
 The Court: Anything else ?''
 The Prisoner: ''That is all."
 The judge then reviewed the evil denoe that had been given at the trial, after which he pronounced judgment and sentence upon Santiago Ortiz as follows:
 1.-The judgment of the court is that you are guilty of murder in the first de- gree: and the sentence cf the court is that you be confined by the sheriff Of Yuma county in close confinement with in the county Of Yuma, until the 18th day of November, 19G0, at which time ycu will be taken by the Sheriff of Yuma county, and in the jail or the courtyard. Of the jail Of Yuma county, Arizona, between the hours Of 10 a. m. and ? p. m. Of the sixteenth day of No vember, 1900, you be hanged by the neck until yCu are dead"
 Mir. Mofiitt had been a respected citi- zen of Harrisburg for twelve or thir- teen years, during that time having been in the mercantile business. = He was well liked by ali who knew him. He was unmarried and in very good circumstances. He had no relatives in Arizona, but his nephew, Mr. P. G. Bussey, of Huron, s. D., has been here for some time, settling up the dead mans estate and doing what he could toward the conviction of his uncle's slayer.