Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-20
BURGLAR HAS | AN EXPERIENCE IN TOMBSTONE
Dropped Cigarette Ashes Into Chest Which He Was Ran Sacking-It Ignited- Quantity of Powder
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 TOMBSTONE. April 19.-The drop ping of the ashes from a cigarette which he was smoking at the time. into a small keg of guapowder. will be the means of not only sending Ramon Flores to the territorial peni- tentiary on a charge of burglary, but will also disfigure his countenance.
 During the early hours of Friday morning Flores gained an entrance to the building of the Tombstone Im- provement company, and began to ransack the place. He opened up 9 number of chests and finally reached one that belonged to Wallace Stark, the engineer. In this chest Wallace had a number of shotgun shells as well as his reloading outfit. 4 small quantity of powder was in the chest | and in some manner, the powder went off. evidently while Flores was leaning over the box. His shirt caught fire and 10 put it out he tore purt of it off and threw it on the floor. He
 
 Ae he was hurrying down the street he attracted the attention of Night Waterman Johnson, who, seeing that his face and hands and shirt were burned took him into custody and held him until the next day.
 When the force of the Improvement company opened up on Friday morn ing they discovered that the place
 
 evidence of powder having gone off. They also found the piece of shirt that Flores had torn off. which was turned over to the officers.
 Flores soon after being placed in jail tried to make away with his shirt ! as he realized that the missing piece might be found and be a circum- stance against him. The officers found the shirt where he had tried to hide it and when the piece was | brought down it fitted in to perfec. | tion
 Flores maintains that he was injur- ed in a fight, but he, will have a chance to explain the circumstance i that now point to his guilt as a bur ' glar before Judge Mcfarland today and will later have the same privilege in the district court.
 ! Death of Former Tombstone Youth | All of the old friends of Judge and | Mrs. W. Fl. StiIlwell will profoundly regret to learn of the demise of Chas. B. Lawrence, who met a terrible death near San Francisco on April 9th, when one of the big stills of the Standard | Oil company exploded He was a | son of Mrs. Stillwell and was for. merly resident of this city He will be remembered by the Tombstone | friends of Judge and Mrs. Stillwell as bright-faced. handsome little fel- | low and was about twelve years of age at the time the family left here and moved to Phoenix, where they have since resided.
 By a strange freak of fate he hap | pened to be walking by the still when it blew up. So fierce were the flames help could not get to him until his body had been literally burned to a | crisp.
 Death came almost instantly to the unfortunate young man who was em ployed as a clerk and bookkeeper in the marine department of the Stand ard Oil company's piatt at Point Rich mond. One other was killed and sev- en employees injured at the time Law. renee was killed
 The expoosion ociurred in a still ' containing 1500 barrels of crude oil 1 The frse which followed the explosion | lasted twenty minutes. but in that | time the ground was covered with the | dead and injured in the vicinity of the exploding still.
 i The funeral was held in Los An geles, the remains having been brought there by an uncle, J. s. Ban croft. The deceased was 29 years of age.