Arizona republican., 1909-10-29
COUNTY 0F FINAL
 WILL HAVE HANGING
Jose Lopezcommitted as the Mur-
 dercr of Mrs. Espinosa.


 ,erdav from Florence. where he has been attending court. He went there on civil business, but on account of the scarcity of lawyers in attendance. NIT. Marks was appointed by the court 10 defend two criminal cases. The most important was that of Jose Lo- peg. who last August murdered Mrs. Maria Espinosa by blowing her head off with a shot gun.
 The defense was a formal matter There was never a hope for Lopez so that he was probably not surprised when the jury brought in verdict oI guilty and condemned him to be hanged The date of the execution was fixed yesterday by Judge Kent. "
 I.opez had formerly lived with the woman. who. with her children, the eldest eleven, lived six miles south of Florence. Lopez had been sent to the penitentiary and on his release he called at her house and asked her to be his mistress again. She refused 10 do so. This refusal was frequently re- peated and late one night Lopez went to her house and delivered an ultima tum Again the woman refused and he fired at her face Her head was almost entirely blown away and she fell across her children. drenching them with blood.
 Lopez rode back to his own place. where he was found asleep under a tree the next morning. He professed to have no recollection of the events of the night. The indignation of the community was great and no doubt there would have been a lynching If Sheriff Mc'Gee had not taken the prisoner for safety to the half finished penitentiary.
 The sentiment was still so strong when the case was called that three panels were exhausted before jury was secured and the jury was finally made up of men from the more dis tant parts of the county. Attorney Marks dwelt upon the probable cir cumstance that the murderer wes drunk at the time of the killing, inas- much as he remembered nothing about it, and that therefore malice could not have figured. That contention prob ably had some weight with the jury, for it remained out two hours and half while the impatient throng in the court room could not see what was keeping 1t.
 Another case was that of an Indian who had been indicted for murder by stabbing another Indian to death. Sev- eral circumstances conspired to induce District Attorney O'COnnor to consent to accept a plea of simple assault In .f nna nf fhaCe airrllff1- stances was that the dead man was q notorious horse thief and an all- round bad character; another was the statement of a physician that the In dian had died as result of being stepped on by horse immediately af- ter the stabbing The stab wounds were said by the doctor to have been superficial.
 In passing sentence Judge Kent said: Do you know that good Indians should not use knives on other In dians or white people? will sen tence you to the county jail for sixty days"
 William Wilson. indicted for embez- element. was acquitted. Wilson is saloonkeeper at Sasco. He was the custodian of the funds of a certain class there. and Rosa Brown. a woman of the underworld. had deposited money with him until he was holding about s100 of her funds. She made d sudden demand, which fell at a time when Wilson had not so much money about him. and he told her so. He had property at Douglas and he said that he would go there. sell it and pay her. He went to Douglas, but he had hardly reached town when he was arrested on a telegram from Sasco. Mrs. Brown had sworn out a warrant Wilson convinced the jury that he was acting in good faith and he was acquitted.
 His brother. Tom Wilson. narrowly escaped trial for murder. He was a partner in the saloon and one day gun man. William Coleman. arrived at Sasco from Douglas with the avowed intention of killing a man who was living with his former wife. Coleman held Wilson up, compelled him to give hipi his revolver and all of his ammu- milton and then write a decoy letter to the man he intended to kill. Later. in the presence of his wife, he was holding revolver in each hand when Wilson took a rifle which he kept be- hind the bar and shot him in the back. killing him instantly. The story of the decOy letter was confirmed by the finding of it in Coleman's pocket The grand jury dismissed this case. though some of the members said that the task would have been easier If Wilson had shot Coleman in the breast.