Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-13
STORY OF CELEBRATED
 MURDER Is RETOLD
Trial of Sanchez in Phoenix for Killing Done More Than a
 Year Ago,
iPhoeaix Rcnnhlicanl


 the murder of Antonio Romero snort ly after the midnight of April 4. 1906. was so nearly finished yesterday that the arguments will begin this morn ing The jury was completed and the formal evidence of J. M. Burnett act ing coroner at the time of the mur- der, Dr. Hughes who examined the body and Bert Balsz who found the body was taken. There was also heard the testimony of Nick Balsz who saw it afterward and a man by the name of Mendoza who accom- panied Romero to Phoenix and who was with him at ten o'clock of the night before his deavn
 When Efrancia Suarez wno has been known as the wife or Sanchez and was supposed by their most in timate friends to be his wife, was called the defense objected. raising the point that though she and San chez had not been married she had been held out to be his wife and so was his common Jaw wife In that case she could not testify against him This matter was argued at length and the objection was over ruled. The woman then told her story which has already been related.
 She said that about midnight of April f Sanchez came to the house and got his revolver. He went away and about two o'clock in theg morn ing the returned and told her that he had killed a man. He asked for some oil saying that he expected the off cers would be at the house soon. He added that he had killed the man be- cause he had called aim disgraced minuda pedler.
 On cross examination the woman stood by her story and said that she had not told it before because she was afraid he would murder her. The defense attacked her character en- deayoring to show that she had fallen in love vita a man by the name of Ramon Contreras and wanted to dis pose Of Sanchez in order that she might live with him. She denied that and denied that sine had told any one she lover Contrerar and was going to swear the life of Sanchez away for his sake.
 Mendoza the companion of Romero said that they arrived in town the day before the killing They found themselves that night at the house of Victor Sanchez with several other Mexicans. Sanchez who by the way Is not a relative of Victor Sanchez was there with ais minuda outfit. Romero had more money than any body else and was frequent pur- chaser Finally about ten o'clock having made a purchase he was un- able to make change. He had sil- yer dollar and he and CorRelio San chez went to the Redlight saloon to get change for it. That was the last Mendoza saw of ais friend alive. / Other witnesses saw them at the RedHght but no one who vas in the saloon had clear recollection Of | their movements with relation to each other there. One witness be- | lieved that Sanchez went first. lie thought it was about midnight and | 1t was about taat time that his wife said he came home after his gun. It was not recalled by the hangers on about the saloon that he returned. But there was one witness whom the prosecution has been keeping in the background. one Pedro ATsda and whose story until yesterday was nev- CT publicly told He said that hrrr' after midnight he saw Sanchez and Romero near the Cottage saloon ann they were going down Seventh street Apeda went on to hie home about 100 feet west of the Cottage saloon and he said that soon after reaching 1t he heard a shot fired. The sound came from the southeast. in a geiryIa way from the spot where the body was sfterward found. This testimony fixed the time of the killing Young Balsz found the body at Tour o'clock in the morning He passed the spot at three o'clock driving and he re membered that the norses sHIeu at that spot but It was SD dark that ri Ire saw nothing.
 That was the substance of the tes- timony for the territory. That for | the defense was largely of negative character. o. Magnani proprietor of the Red Light saloon and his bar i tender, A. Gonzales, said that San chez and Romero came to the saloon ! together but that Sanchez left first. T. NJ. Yberri who has a store in l that part of town was put on tle stand to prove what the defense had 1 hinted at in the cross examination of the woman. that she had determin- | ed to swear away the life of Sanchez Tor Ramon Contraras. It had been the understanding of the defense that she mad told Yberri so. But fberri | denied that; he said that the woman had come to him asking to have San chez arrested because she was afrapo | of him. Of her relations with Con treras the witness knew nothing.
 The defendant himself took tae stand. He denied that he saw Ro- nero after he himself left the Red Light saloon on the night of the kill ing. He had his minuda wagon with him and took it home with aim as witness for the defense had testi- fled he was him with it about two o'clock in the morning.
 Sanchez also denied that there was revolver in his house and he said that he had none Tor months On cross examination be was asked if at his preliminary examination he had not said to his wife in his cross ex- animation of her: Wasn't it nine o'clock instead of midnight when came after my revolver? He denied that he had made the admission in- voived in such a question 0. E. Schupp tae reporter at the trial was called to bring his notes Of that ex- animation and they showed that such question had been asked by the de- i fendant. !. A. Porterie the inter preter at that trial testified that that position was asked and that he hao interpreted it correctly