Arizona republican., 1906-06-07
WILLIAMS POCKETBOOK
 RIDDLED WITh SHOT
An Eloquent Exhibit in the Tragedy
 Last Saturday.

No movement was made yesterday in
 the direction of securing a bond for l..
 L. Weller held to the grand jury for the murder of C. B. Vii jams last Sat
 urday. It was intimated that no effort would be made for some time to find a bond.
 The property found on the dead man was turned over to County Treasurer Hayden yesterday by Justice Standage of Alma precinct before whom the m lquest and preliminary examination
 were held. These were checks and cash amounting to more than s7OO. | s1e most interesting thing of the collection is a very heavy pocketbook which Will Hams had in his hip pocket. This pock- etbook was leather one of a half doz- en thicknesses. It intercepted a con- [ siderab Q part of the charge or rne first ! shot. The outer side of it is thickly | Ipeppered with shot, some of which
 were found in the last compartment of
 the book. Among the papers in the book was a time check of the Buckeye Canal company. It was so riddled by
 shot that it could hardly be read. None | of the shot passed entirely through the | hook. though a half dozen of them deeply indented the inner flap
 l There has been some change or scnti- ment here regarding the killing of Will ! ilams. At the time the news of it was received here it was understood that it | had been done in defense; the i'm pressiOn being that Williams had been
 d dangerous man. It has been recalled 1 though, that in his long residence in the valley he had never killed any | hody nor had ever attempted to Kill
 anybody. He was a man of quick tenn
 Der and had established a record for l fighting either in his own behalf or in
 defense of friends who did not happen | to be fi~hters. Tn that respect he is
 said to have been one of the most loyal men that ever lived. He was held in ! high regard by business men all over
 the valley and those who were the most intimately acquainted with him liked
 him the best.
 After his death is was for the first time publicly announced that his name
 was not C. R. Williams. but Wil'ian1 kearley. It. was further stated that
 he had been fugitive from justice and ' that he came here from Texas. His 1 brothers. Charles and Jesse Kearley of Prescott, said last night that though
 his name was Kearley he was never a fugitive from justice. He had been in vowed in some affairs in Missouri. but 1t was matter Of so little importance that it was not brought to the notice
 of the authorities. and they further said that he never lived in Texas
 | Among the statements made on the day of the killing was one that the 1 trouble between Williams and Weller had arisen over the wife of Weller who had formerly been the wife of Williams. The Kearley brothers say that this is an error. That the divorce between Williams and his wife had taken place Hong before her marriage to Weller and that Weller and his wife have not been | living together for the last two years that Williams never had any objection
 to the marriage of the woman to Vel
 Ter and that he had been wholly indif- ferent to the subsequent relations.
 The Kearley brothers and their moth er lett this morning for Prescott