Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-14
HANNA WILL DIE FROM BLOWON
 l HEAD
William Tate, Charged With Striking Blow By Injured Man, Denies That He Is the Guilty Party,

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 door at the Calumet & Arizona hos
 pitai as the result of falls or 6 blow |on the head William Tate, well
 known in Bisbee. has been charged
 with the assault on Hanna, which is
 said to be responsible for his condi-
 ton. Tate was taken into custody
 yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Harvey Hughes and arraigned before Justice
 Grier at Lowell where he entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of as- sault with a deadly weapon. Tate was released on Loads in the sum of 5000, which were promptly furnished. Tate 1 is a brother of Thomas Tate, of John son Addition and of Robert Tate of 1 this city. All are well known old | timers in Bisbee. ...- r Tate admits having had words with Hanna over the discussion of a bill said to be due Tate by Hanna, but denies that he struck or injured in any way the man who now lies on a cot at the C. & A. hospital It is also said that the officers, are now on the trail of other Bisbee parties, two in num- Der, who- are said to have been in the company of Hanna at a late hour Tuesday night when the alleged as- sault was committed.
 The physicians of the c. & A. hos pital aver that Hanna can not survive as 1t is evident from all his symptoms ! that he is suffering from, concussion of the brain. It is believed that be- sides an ugly wound over his right eye, Hanna has sustained a fracture at the base of his skull, and bleeding at the ears follows as a result.
 Hanna, in a deposition taken by | Justice Grier at Lowell yesterday, stated that Tate had struck him with gun. Aside from this there is no evidence thus far to fasten the guilt on Tate, and he and his friends are stout in their assertions that no blows were struck in the wordy altercation
 between Tate and the dying man. l It will De remembered by Bisbee peo | pie that Tate formerly conducted the | Norton House on Main street. Hanna | Tate says, roomed there at the time and when he closed the house Hanna lowed him s2950. It was while dunning l Hanna for this amount that the two 1 engaged in an altercatiou in which words flew fast.
 i The affair came up in the Turf sa- l loon about Il o'clock Tuesday night. Tate approached Hanna who was standing at the bar in that place, and called upon him for an explanation as | to why he had not made some attempt | to liquidate the debt Getting no satis- | faction from T Hanna, he, according
 to his own admission, scored Hanna
 sharply. following which scuffle en- sued when Tate tried to search Hanna l for a gun which he says he had req son to believe he had on his per
 son. As, the'Truan tried to pull away from Tate's grin. he tripped, or was i ripped, falling heavily to the floor Of
 the bar room, Tate claims, however, that he did not, strike Hanna, nor that | the man received any injury further than the loss of a little skin from an abrasion on his face.
 ,l Tate's story of the fracas is about as follows: ~ s-..s ,--.--', v. T was standing in here (The Turf) when Hanna came in. I have seen l him on several occasions but notwith- standing the fact that he owes me | money and knew that he did, he has i repeatedly refused to take any notice
 of me. went up to Hanna and asked l him why he did not do something to- l ward paying me off.
 .' You ara working, or seem to be, | all the time. Why don't you come around and try to square that bill up? half as much as do being ignored by | I don't mind you owing me the money | you .-
 Then I said some pretty sharp things to him." said Tate, because did not seem to have any effect on him 1 in any appeal for money.
 "We both sauntered over toward the roulette wheel, when one of my friends here suggested that he might have a ! gun. I caught hold of his hand and | ierked 1t to one side, while with nly other hand I reached to feel of his | hip to see if he did have gun there As I did so. Hanna jerked away from me and either tripped, or possibly might have tripped him, but anyway
 he stumbled and fell face down on the floor. He got right up and there was only a bad scratch under one Of ms eyes where he had struck on the floor. | He immediately went out or here
 and I went to bed. Hanna had not | heen drinking at that time. I under stand tha. he was pretty full later in ! the evening and that he then had
 gun on him. but was too full to take | care of it and let 1t drop to the side | walk.
 q did not see him after he left here and can not imagine how he came to he hurt. hear that he was thrown out on the sidewalk from one of the saloons across the street-I don't know
 which one-but if so, it was prooanly there that he was hurt
 Tate feeis that he Is the unfortunate victim of circumstances in being held on the wandering statements of man nartiallv out of his mind, and attri- | butes Hanna's statement to the fact II that Hanna was breeding over his ' trouble and being bent on satis- faction. could remember nothing \ more than that he had had some | trouble and hence laid his condition to Tate's work.
 II Until Hanna either recoveTs, which i is not at all probable, or succumDs to his injuries, which is more likely. no | further step will be taken in the mai Ii ter. so far as Tate is concerned.
 ] Up to late hour last nisht nothing ! could he learned Of Hanna's past, fur ! ther than that he IS miner and had formerly lodged al. the Norton House. It is likely that today will see further
 developments in the case and that the [ officers will be able to shed more light on the supposed attack on Hanna.
 ] His condition yesterday precluded
 any interview further than the taking
 Of the denosstIon at which time it is said that his mind wandered much. the ! only point on which he is said to ne at
 all clear being his assertion that Tate
 struck him. "A iif-- s