Arizona republican., 1907-01-19
IN A TRANCE OF FEAR
 MURDERER LEIGH DItD
He Collapsed Utterly When He Was Sum-
 mOned to the SCaffOU
The Slayer of Jennie Bauters More Dead Than Alive Presented a GhastIy Figure When the Rope Encircled His Neck.

Kingman. Ariz.. Jan. 1s-(SpeciaD- c. C. Leigh was hanged here today After keeping his nerve all through the ordeal of imprisoamcnt he failed to go to the scaffold with the jaunty air he had all along predicted. He was notified that the governor had failed to grant a communication of his sen tence this morning and immediately he began preparing for the end. He wrote several letters and at noon was washed up shaved and dressed in a neat suit of black clothes. white shirt collar and tie. He met a few friends in his cell and bade them goodbye. When the sheriff went tO his cell to read the death warrant and pre- pare him for the gallows he collapsed utterly. As the officers approached his cell he asked if they had come for him and when they answered yes" he lurched forward against the bars Of the cell. a projection cutting a heavy gash in his head. Before he could fall to the floor the officer caught him and laid him down. He partly revived and the officers carried him to the scaf- fold
 As they raised him up his eyes partly opened. but he apparently did not know what was going on. Not on> word was spoken by him from the time he first accOsted the officers un- til the drop fell.
 He was a ghastly sight as the of ficers held him up to adjust the rope around his neck, the blood trickling down over his face from the wound in his head. dyeing his face and white shirt front with blood. When The trap was sprung the body fell like a ! bag of sand, there being no perciptible movement. and the doctor declared | him dead in ten minutes. The body was allowed to hang for thirty min utes before it was cut down.
 ! The crime for which Leigh suffered the death penalty was the cold-blood- ed murder of a woman of the world. named Mrs. Jennie Bauters, at Gold Road mining camp in Mohave county. Arizona, early on the morning of Sep tember 3, 1905. Leigh was a vicious character and went to Gold Road in company with the woman from Jerome. Ariz., sometime before. They had lived together in Jerome and had been associates for a long time. Having wearied of the cOmpanionship and the frequent demands of Leigh for money. the woman discarded him and her ia vOrs to others excite his jealous rage. She was living in a tent or modest mining camp structure on the fatal morning. when Leigh entered her apartment and after a few words of a ! quarrelsOme nature drew a revolver | and shot her as she ran into the street. As she lay dying at the roadside he reloaded his gun, approached her and it is said rolled her over to get a better aim and fired a final bullet into her | brain. He then feigned an effort at suicide. inflicting but a slight wound on his left side, from which he quickly 1 recOvered.
 He was ably defended and after conviction his case was taken to the supreme court on an allegation that a member of the indicting grand jury was a rival for the woman's favors. The supreme court sustained the dis trict court and the date of execution was fixed for December 8. 1906. The case was then laid before Governor Kibbey in a petition for communication of sentence. but the executive took no action.
 The day before the date of execu- ton. Leroy Anderson. attorney for Leigh, applied to the governor for a re- prieve that he might have time to pre- pare an application for communication. on the ground of the insanity Of Leigh at the time the crime was committed. and to secure evidence in support of ' the claim. A reDrieve was granted until Jan. IS. 1907.
 ! Early this week the case was brought before the governor on the application