Arizona republican., 1901-02-19
KILLING AT JEROME
A Burglar Who Went Once Too
 Often.

Jerome. Arlz, Feb. l6-CSpecial cor resp-ndencc of The RepuIlicanD-J the present time over thn sangunary happenings of the past twenty-four hours. during which time one man was killed and another made the target of some shots fired by Marshal Roberts. The latter, luckily for him. is still alive and well. but IS the first man that the same marshal shot at and missed. Of the man that was killed there is but little to say in his favor, for he was the man who had rsen entering houses for the past month at night time, and frightening the residents al most into spasms. George Ward was the man wh,, did the shooting, and the weapon he used was a shC; gun. This afternoon at o'clock the coroners ju- ry sat on the remains of the deceased, and the following was the evidence as brought forth:
 Mir. WarL who was the main witness. testified as fellows: Having had my home, the Ward house. entered three times previous to last night, l cGn'lud- cd to watch for the man who was doing the entering Acting on the thought, I procured a messenger shot gun of No. 10 bore, loaded it with all the buck shot 1t would stand. and took my pla2e in the paylor, or room No. 1. which has been in use for a long time, occupied as a bed room by myself and wife. I went m watch at midnight and raised the so in, tN ba f,.O,Nt Nyi.,1.u- cR that could see any person coming into the house without being observed myself, Fearing that I would fall asleep on watch and get caught in that condition I locked the door tO the room SD that any peIson trying to get in would have tO make nose before effeCting an en- trance About l:30 l heard footsteps coming along on the board walk in front Of the h use LC Jking out l saw a large man passing the house. He had a handkerchief over the lower part of his face. After stopping at the corner of the house where the stairway goes down into the basement, and listening attentively for few seconds. he passed pn by the dCOE. stopping aga.n beneath the outside lantern, which was left burning. He then turned again and walked s;ealth!!y up the steps to the front door As the door is always un- locked he found no resistance there. but came right into the hallway. Req ching the dor to the room I was in he tried the door knob, and found the door bolt ed from the inside. Then he showed against the door with his shoulder or knee in an endeavor to fore it open. Turning around l pointed my gun to- ward the door so 1t would be in readi- ness to give it t. him when he broke open the door l cooked both barrels of the gun. and in doing so failed tD hold the triggers back to avoid the clicking. and he heard the clicks He then ran to the fiI-nt door and went out onto the porch. As he passed out he came within my range of vision and l let him have it in the side and back of the head. Thinking he might not be dead, l loaded ,he empty barrel of my gun and went outside to investigate. There | found him as dead as a stone, where hc had fallen when struck by the load cf sn0t. I called to H. D. Mather- ly to go and tell the police I had the burglar He returned in a few minutes with Marshal Roberts, Officer Davis and Hawkins Roberts took charge of the body and would not let anyone touch it until Judge McKinnon arrived. He then ordered t taken to the under taking parlors of F. F. Nevin. where if was left till morning. Mir, Ward then told of the three former visits of the night marauder and of the attempts made to get into the rooms where the family slept. Miss Ruby Ward was frightened very badly one night by the fellow getting into her room. H. D. Matherly. Marshal Roberts Louis Is soglio. Tom Miller Fred GuimCnd,, J. NJ. Sullivan. Martin and Fred flaw kins testified at the inqu st. Their tes- timony was about the same. Matherly was sleeping in the house az the time of the killing, but did not wake up when the shot was fired. He went after the officers. and als noticed the handker- chief over the fellows face when he was dead on the sidewalk. seth B. Smith also testified to assisting In car rying the body to the morgue; he also saw the mask over the face of the dead man. Louis Issoglio tes flied that the man had left his saloon at II 'r'clock. with the aVOWed inteEtiOn of going to his room for the night. At that time he had nothing around his neck, so the theory advanced by some croakers that the handkerchief was only al und his neck and not for mask, was exploded