Arizona republican., 1904-03-11
A MURDER.
Robbery of W. 6. Pember-
 ton Yesterday Morning
The Victim Lay in Stupor All Day and It Is Doubtful Whether He Will Recover.

There was a hold up yesterday morn . ing which in all probability will later be called a murder. The victim of the robbery was w. G. Pemberton of Penn berton & Macklin, proprietors of the Hoghe restaurant. MT. PembeIton lives at 905 North Sixth street. He left the restaurant at a quarter past in the morning and arrived home at 6. His wife had arisen three hours be- fore and she met him outside the house. She asked him why he was so late and tcld him that it was 6 o'clock. He manifested d slight sur prise and asked her if any one had been annoying her or had been about the house Then he said that two men had hurt him and that he wars suffer ing great deal of pain. He immed:- ately sank in a stupor. from which Ee emerged for brief intervals only, dur ing the day. His wife noticed a bad wound on the right side of the head back of the ear and that the right shoulder of his coat was saturated with blood.
 Dr. Plath was called and he found that the skull had been fractured. He Was unable to foretell what the result
 
 was an exceedingly dangerous one and the manner of the patient was not re- assuring.
 In the periods of consciousness dur ine the day Pemberton told what lad happened to him. He finally finished the story and the correctness of it is corroborated by what the officers them selves afterwcrd found. Pemberton cosd ho street above the high school building he was tarown from his wheel. He saw a glimpse of two men, he believed to be large men. He next received q stunning blow on the right side of the head and he knew nothing more until he found himself on another street. He remembered indistinctly what had happened and went back to his wheel. He found it with the front tire cut, the cut extending along the side of the rim. There were also on the ground two packages with which he had started, some papers which had been taken out of his pocket, two pieces of black cloth and two long sticks. Pemberton also discovered that his pocketbook which had contained d dollar, was gone.
 As Goon as Dr. Plath had finished d dressing his wound he reported the case to Marshal Kinney, who spent the ! day in the investigation of it. He found the sticks which had been de- scribed by Pemberton and he conclud- | ed that the men stood on either side of the road and that when Pemberton came along they thrust one into each wheel. The sticks had been sharpened. | One of them had been a hoe handle. | The pieces of cloth had evidently been | intended for masks. The cut in the | tire of the wheel might have been made with sharp hatchet or a knife: | the marshal is inclined tc believe the latter. There is supposition that one of the men struck at Femberton as he was falling from his wheel with a sharp instrument and missed him, the edge faiiing upon the tire. The other had aimed better with a rock CT a | niece of brick. The men were prob ably standing one on each side of the road as Pemberton approached though he did not see them until he was. falling. There was a fairly bright moonlight, out Pemberton's vision is defective.
 It was learned yesterday forenoO~ that a young man about town had come into a saloon about o'clock il the morning and that he had blood or his clothes. The officers began a searcf for him but could not find him. 4 companion of his was arrested in tn; evening and detained at the county iail Later the man with the blood on his clothes was found and taken t, the office of the sheriff, but after ar examination he was released.
 No other clues were discovered dur. ing the day. but there is a theory that tho crime was committed by the same men vho broke into the Hoghe restaur. ant a few. nights ago. They brok, open tae cash drawer and found i empty. It is supposed that they sur rised from that that Pemberton or hi. nalrtner was in the habit of carryint tice money home.
 A puZZling feature of the crime Wa the manner of it. The officers are in clined to believe that it was not al ordinary holdup. The purpose of tn miScreants seems to have been to kil Pemberton, rather than to rob him He is a man of slight physique am could have been easily handled by man of average strength. There wa no command to halt and the first inti nation he had of the presence of tn assailants was the blow on the head They too must have been laying il wait for him, for there was no one els in that vicinity that could have beel held up that night. There was onl one house on that street between tn place where the hold up took place ant Pemberton's house. There Is evidence too, that the crime had been set for tn night before. The hoe handle used il stopping the bicycle had been stolel from O. house in that neighborhood ol Tuesday night.
 There was a curious incident in con nection with this affair. Pemberton' wife had a dream which was extreme ly realistic. In the dream she say three men engaged in Q. struggle an then she saw one of them lying on th ground terribly wounded. There wa nothing in the dream that suggeste, her husband as the victim on tn ground. In the midst Of the drean she was awakened by the furiou barking of dog at the door. Sh arose and the dog acted as if it wante'