Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-06-26
MISTRESS GIVES
 AWAY MURDERER
Mexican Who Murdered Countrylnan in Phoenix Several Months Ago Be- trayed by Woman Thought to Have Been His Legal Wife.

The murder of Antonio Romero on South Seventh street little after mid night of April 3, 1906, is about to be avenged. The murderer is in the coun- ty jail on another charge and a warrant charging him with the murder has been issued. The crime of which he was suspected at the time has been brought definitely to his door by the confession is Cornelio Sanchez and the name of the woman is Efracina Suarez, who un- til lately was thought to be his wife. Sanchez and the woman had been living together for several years, but it only came to the knowledge of the authorities recently that they were not man and wife.
 A day or two before the murder Ro- mero came to town and exhibited con siderable money for laborer. On the night before his dead body was found he was in the southeastern part of the city and had been seen at various places until the saloons closed little after midnight.
 Sanchez is "minudo man, |" that is a peddler of Mexican noodles, tripe and
 
 nero bought some noodles and Sanchez was unable to make the change. They left together and Romero was never afterward seen alive. His dead body was found a short distance below the old M. X P. depot. He had been shot to death. Persons had heard shot fired in that direction and it was sup posed that it was the one which had killed Romero. It was also believed that the killing had been witnessed by we'll known character who had been hanging about town for long time, but nothing could be got out of him about it.
 Marshal Moore, who was then mem Der of the police force, went to work on the ease, and though he suspected Sanchez, he could get no tangible evi dence against him. About the time of the Hammond burglary the officer satis- fled himself that Sanchez was the mur- derer, but there was the same lack of evidence. Sanchez was once arrested on suspicion, but was discharged.
 His wife, or the woman who was tify against him and the authorities naturally made no strenuous effort to find out what she might know about the case.
 Since the arrest of Sanchez on a charge of assault made by the woman she divulged that she was not married to Sanchez and then at the solicitation of Marshal Moore she came forward with the story. She made a confession to the marshal and yesterday she was taken before District Attorney Bullard, to whom she told the same story.
 She said on the morning of April 5 Sanchez came home greatly excited and was carrying coat which did not be- long to him. He asked where he could get some oil to clean gun. When the woman asked some question he again impatiently demanded the oil, saying that he wanted to clean the gun before the officers came. He said that he had killed man who had called him a dis. graceful name He cleaned the gun but the officers did not come. She would have told at the time what she knew, but she was afraid of Sanchez, who she knew did not place a high valuation on human life. She also said that after the killing of Romero Sanchez appeared to have come into what was for him a state of affiuence.
 The coat which Sanchez brought home he said was the coat of the man he had killed. There is now other evidence against Sanchez which has not been dis closed.-Republican