Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-28
whom ,be fatal shot st,uck him.

resting on table near the fireplace bore mute testimony to the fact that spence victim was eating his noon day luncn when the bullet crashed through his brain.
 The burned forehead and singcd hair indicate that he fell forward into the fire in his death agony
 The floor apparently showed the body had been dragged from the fire place after the killing Co the spot where it was found with the right hand tightly clenched and resting on the handle of the butcher knife.
 From such evidence the jurp return cd n verdict that deacescd "cams to his death on October 22 from a gun. snot wound fired from a Winchester rifle of II calibcr in the hands of Frank Spence, and that said shot was fired with intent Co commit murder. " The verdict also states that the bullet entered the back of the head three inches from the upper lobe of tho right ear and came out immediately left of the left eye.
 Sullivan came nere from MeIico in the latter part of l007. The records of the county recorders office show that he purchased from Frank Spence, January IS, 1908, the tract of land and premises where he was shot. The consideration mentioned in the war. ranty deed transferring the property is 800. The deed was executed in the county recorders office before County Recorder Bradbury, acting in the of. teisl capacity of notary public and was recorded the same day.
 Attaches of the recorders ofiee re. member the transaction. They say that there is no agreement of record between Spence and Sullivan, permit. ting the former to occupy the premises n year after the date of sale. On .he other hand the recorders deputies as. scrt that they heard n conversation between Sullivan and Spence in whieh the latter asked permission to stay there six months if he so desired. shortly after Sullivan took over the Spence ranch he was taken i'll with heart trouble and went to the Mercy hospital. He was n patient there some time before recovering sufficiently to return to the ranch.
 On July li. 1908, he transferred tae ranch to the Sisters of Mercy of Ari. zona, the consideration named in the warranty deed being sGOO. The record title to the property, according To the | records of the recorders offce, is own. ed by the Sisters of Mercy of Arizona. After selling the ranch in January of this year, Spence informed his friends that he would leave in short time for the Panama Canal. Instead, however, he started on long de. bauch and, it is believed, spent the amount received for the place carous. ing. Lately ne has been in the em. ply of F. A. Hinderer, who owns n small ranch a short distance from the scene of yesterdays shooting. The coroner's jury found four emp. ty shells of a 44 caliber Winchester outside the door of the cabin where Sullivan was shot.
 A 30.30 caliber Winchester, fully loaded, was lying on one of the two hunks in the cabin.
 Spence on his way to this city after tho shooting stopped at the home of Tom simmons in Miller valley and gave Simmons the rife from which the fatal shot was fired. He also informed simmons that he had shot Sullivan in self defense and was on his way to the sheriH's office to surrender.
 When he reached the sheriff's office he wns in an excited frame of mind and when questioned regarding the arms carried by Sullivan, when attack. ed by him, answered in an evasive way that he was armed with everything.
 Spence has been principal in number of cutting and shooting scrapcs during his residence in the territory, dating back more than T quarter of a century. He is generally considered n dangerous man.
 When under the influence of liquor he appears to be seized with a homi. cdal mania. Several months ago while under the influence he tareat ened 10 shoot at the feet of an attache of one of the resorts to make him dance, but was arrested before he started the performance.
 He Is an expert pistol and rife shot While shooting holes through Tom Sullivan's hat on Sullivan's mead sev.