Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-05-29
ROACH IS FOUND
GUILTY OF MURDER
Compromise Verdict of Second Decree.
With Recommendations For Mercy.
Returned By Jury.
tFrom Wednesdays Daily.)

'''f ~ h'fA'N iNNN~NHldAf IOIlN
Fletcher NJ Crown King on the nigh,
OF November @. Last year, by shooting
him with 1856 Winchester rifle. while
concealed behind rock in front Of tho
Petery saloon in that placc1
This is the question the jury in the
ease Of the Territory vs.. Roach will de.
eide. the trial having started yesterday
morning in the district court. with Mrs.
N. Pottery on the stand. NJ the FIRST
witness for tnc prosecution.
The ease IL one Of purely circumstan.
tial evidence, there being no cyc.wit.
nesScs 10 the affair Fletcher was shot
while standing in the Pottery saloon
The shot was fred from without. and il
was later determined. by the course of
The bullet, and marks on the ground.
that The shot had been fred from be.
bind y rock about 80 feet in front of
the saloon.
Tnc prosecution maintains that Roach
10 the man who fred the shot. and will
attempt to prove that Roach was track.
ed fnum the point behind the rock 10
the very door Of his home. somcs miles
away. and that numerous other cirrum.
stances connected with the affair point
70 Roach as the slayer. District At
torney Morrison and his assistant. !. G.
Forrest, are conducting the case for the
Territory.
Counsel for the defense, Charles r.
Whitchcr and Denny =. Smith. declare
there is no evidence whatever To- war.
rant the superstition that Roach il the |
guilty party, and expect To success.
fuiiy demonstrate that fact 10 the iury |
today. ar before the end Of the trial
Mis-. Petcry, who was prcscn, in the :
saloon ~ the time Of the shooting t.s.
titled that on the night in question. I
when the fatal shot was fred through
The front door. about or s O'Clock.
she was engaged in wiping glasses be.
hind the bar, after serving drinks TO
fhe murdered man and Pat Markham.
toc only others present at the time.
'1ctchrr wac was standing with his
righi sid" toward the front door. was
Engaged IN conversation with Mark.
nam. When she beard the noise of the :
mot she noticed Fletcher. who was ,
standing almost directly in front of ,
'cr, grn-A his side and lean forward.
he walker towards the front door. f,
where he fell in ncap. without utter. -
ng wo~l the only sound coming from ;,
}" i'p' before he expired n few -
minutes iater. being low moan. After (,
fletcher sank TO the floor Markham
nmedia'c'y left the place at her re-. I \
nest, f"' assistance. and in about >,
nree m'"ctcs Deputy Sheriff CLYDE "a
-ano, aod Harry Brown called at the
lace. number Of other persons niso a,
rived almost immediately after Kan. 1,
d and Hrown, and before Fletcher II
led. She slated that she examined the n,
aping wound in thc breast of the de. h,
sas-d who're the bule, pissed out of In
II bods, and testified that the steel ii
'ckrt "f the bullet was found embed. 1,
cd IN the casing Of the back door, and b,
nj the bullet itself was extracted n,
'om the wall on the outside, after IL h,
as passed through a picture frame on n,
he inside. -,
Pat Markham was the next witness II
'lled. lie atated that on the night of ia
Iovemiec p, 1906. he was standing in ri
,c Pr,cfy saloon in Crown King, en- In
aged IN conversation with John
letche' Yben the latter was shot and hi
HE'D. After the fatal shot was fred b
? caught Fletcher in his arms. and Z,
him until his head fell 10 Ia
Ne side and he sank 10 the floor at IA
he door o. the saloon, several feet e,
way. lie then left to notify the
eighbors OF the shooting and returned a,
J less than five minutes, Immediately .!
cforr Tictcher died. Nothing now
M Developed on cross.cxamination. :,
u. q. B~wn, proprietor of saloon a
bout seyc~ty-fve yards distant, tes- Il
fed he arrived at the Pottery place II
Don't minnte after Fletcher expired. hi
q esam'1cd the body after death n,
nj found that the bullet entered the "
ghi sise and came ont almost in the
inter of the breast, leaving an ugly W
ound' lie found the steel jacket Of uI
e bullet embedded in the easing Of oi
c hack dOor and cut II out with his
nife, aud SAW the Icsden part OF tho n
illet ca, out by someone else on tho to