Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-10
MUSICIAN Is FOUND
 DEAD IN SPENCE CABIN
(From Wednesdays Daly.J

(From Wednesdays Daily.J Yesterday forenoon the body of & man named William l.. Bent was found in a lonely cabin on Willow creek on the ranch ground formerly owned by Frank Spence and in the room where the late James Sullivan was found murdered nearly a year ago.
 Spence, it will be remembered, ar rived in Prescott on the afternoon of the tragedy and surrendered himself to the sheriff. Later he was tried in the district court and found guilty of murder in the first degree with the death penalty attached. He is now in the county jail in this city while his case is on appeal to the supreme court.
 The belief prevailed for some time yesterday after young man named John Mcdonald reached the city and made the announcement that another
 
 cabin, that another criminal chapter had been added to it's reported long chain of evil transactions of the past and much excitement was oeeasioned by the receipt of this news. Appre- eiating the fact that Coroner McLane was cue of the city and there was no Offiaeial source of information, the Journal-Miner sent representatives to the scene, being the first to arrive there from the city.
 A few minutes before o'clock the old and gruesOme place was reached, distant about five miles west of the city.
 Bent was found in the old cabin dead. He was lying on the floor on his back. After nasty exami- nation of the remains, the conclusion was reached that he had passed away from natural causes, evidently heart disease. There were no marks of vio- fence whatever on his person. The expression on his face indicated that he had passed away peacefully and without any struggle whatever.
 The suppOsitiOn is that he died early yesterday morning and that when the end came he was preparing to light the wood in the stove, the door being open, while alongside of his body was found a match box un- opened and a pOeketknife closed. Nothing in the arrangement of the interior showed any evidences of a struggle.
 Since his death it was learned yesterday that he had recently se- cured a lease on the. Spence ranch and last Saturday had purchased some provisions which were in the cabin. Monday morning two miners working nearby had occasion to go to the place to grind an ax. The cabin door was closed and their belief was that Bent was away.
 Yesterday morning they returned to pay a visit and when the door was forced open gently, the body of the man was discovered. The dis eOvery was made by T. M. Kerr, and John R. MeCannon. They informed Mr. Mcdonald, who came to the city with the news.
 An examination of his personal eff feets showed that Bent carried a paid-up membership card in the Mu- sieians' Protective association of Buffalo, N. Y., and other literature on his person indicated that he was a resident of that city. The date of of his union card was Janu- ary, 1909.
 Bent arrived in Prescott about four months ago and was an inmate of the Mercy hospital until few days previous to his death. He was suf- ferer from tuberculosis and his emaeiated physical condition indicated that he was in the last stages of the white plague" The body was brought to Prescott last evening and Is now at Ruffner's undertaking par ors.