Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-08-29
CRAZY WHEN HE KILLED
 ASA I. HOY
so DECLARES BROTHER OF PER PETRArR OF AWFUL DEED
 AT BIsBEE
RECALLS HIS FORMER CRIME
KILLING AT FORT RILEY SAID TO HAVE UNBALANCED
 HIS REASON

FL PASO, August 2s.--H. c. Pfaun- kucke, a brother of William A. Pfaun- kucke. the slayer of Asa T. Hoy and William Bockholdt, the two printers at Bisbee, arrived yesterday from his home in San Antonio, on his way to see his brother. who is closely guarded in the Tombstone, Ariz., jail.
 The brother of the perpetrator of the double tragedy is railroad man of San Antonio. being employed as brake man out of san Antonio on the G. H.. X $. A.
 | His mother was to have accompanied him to see her son, but her physical 1 condition prevented her making the trip.
 l Brakeman Pfaunkucke, who had let ters of introduction from acting Mayor l w. l.. Richter of San Antonio and a number of prominent business men of that city, is unable to talk of the ter l rible crime of his brother without breaking down and he is deeply affected by the tragedy that has come into the life of his aged mother and his own family.
 The brother says that the tragedy IS all the more terrible because of the fact that Mrs. Hoy. the wife of the murdered man. is an intimate friend of his mother and it has been less than year since she wrote Mrs. Pfaunkucke let ter of sympathy because of the death of her daughter at the family home at Austin. The Iioys. he said, were close friends of the Pfauukucke fam ilv and it was Asa Hoy who taught the boy who slew him the printer trade while he was working on the Statesman al Aust n, Texas.
 I. is the belief of the brother that William Pfaunknehe was not m ms riuht mind at the time oi the killing n, Bisbee and he said that the young man had been breeding for some tune over fatal affair in which he figured while an enlisted man at Fort Riley, Kan. Young Pfaunkucke was the post printer at Fort Riley, having enlisted after the close of the Spanish American war. He became engaged in an after cation with another enlisted man at Fort Riley and killed him.
 The brother stated this morning that pfaunkucke was acquitted by the Jury after it had been ont but AS minutes, finding that the shooting was done in self-defense The two brothers of the voung man, one living at San Antonio and the other a policeman on the oni- eago police force, mortgaged everythihe they owned to secure theIr broineI freedom and. after his acqulttal, ms release from the army was purehaseu bv them and he was persuaded 10 re- turn to the family home at Austih' where his widowed mother lived.
 Brakeman Pfaunkucke says that rom that lime until he left Austin for BIS bee to 20 to work for Asa nov his brother was constantly breeding over the trouble he had at Fort Riley ann was in constant dread for fear the hrother of his victim would carry ou. lie throat to hunt him down and XII h;u The railroad man said that when arvone would enter his brother s room bs would jump for six-shooter ne carried as if expecting to be at,acheu'
 It was against the wishes or oo'h tbe mother and brother that young pfaunkucke went to Bisbee to work' as thev wished him to stay at hoine ur;tb his mother. But he insisted, stat. mo that Asa Hoy was the best friend be had and that since he had writ'eh to him to come to Bisbee he was go ing there. =.
 The brother says that Pfaunkueke w.s member of the German Lutheran church at Austin, where be was born and reared. He says the family IS one of the oldest German families in Ans ii, and that his father, who died when inc boys were small, was member or tbe city council of Austin al one time. The older brother, Louis F.. is now on the Chicago police force, being attach ed to the 44th precinct and has been on the force number of years. sis ter died last year, leaving only the three sons, Louis F., H. C., and William A.
 The brother of the 3isbee slayer
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