Arizona republican., 1910-08-06
JAPANESE
 VENGEANCE The Pictured Story of the
 Kendall Slaughter
 |BEG|NN|NC OF INQUEST
The Doomed Family Had Been Long Menaced by Japanese Working in the Vicinity of the Cazadero Ranch.

a single crack of rifle to announce doom to each, the members of the Kendall family were picked off one by one as they went about their work by an enemy hidden on one of the rocky points which buttress the lonely Starbuck ranch.
 This was the picture of the tragedy left in the minds of those who took part in the strange inquest held in the Kendall ranch house today.
 A jury. hastily summoned by Coro- ner Blackburn. gathered with Dis trict Attorney Lea and Sheriff Smith in the living room of the ranch house, which was left in perfect or der when the housewife went to a terrible death.
 The only sensation of the afternoon session of the inquest came with the testimony of Judge F. D. Cooper that Thomas Kendall and a neighbor, William Churchman. quarreled so bit terly that the latter threatened Ken dall with q pistol which he took from a wagon and placed in his pocket
 Churchman confirmed the story when called to the stand. He explained hat he had not heard of the disap- pearance of the Kendaus until noon today. Churchman lives three-quar- ters of a mile from the Kendall home. He testified that on the fifth or sixth of July he met Yamagachi in the road near his home.
 In the converse ton which ensued Yamagachi said he had been sent to the Starbuck ranch to look after the livestock, which, according to his story, had been disappearing. Yama- gachi told Churchman that Tom Ken dall warned him to cease spying around on the/ penalty of being thrown off the ranch.
 William Cockril. the first witness examined, told of the discovery that the ranch was deserted and of the search which started after he had informed Judge Crosper that some thing was wrong in the Kendall home
 Judge Crosper told of the long feud which had prevailed between the Kendalls and the Japanese tanbark peelers. According to a story told him last March by Mrs. Kendall. more than one Japanese had returned to the Starbuck ranch since they fin ished their work last year.
 She told the judge, after she and her husband taken refuge at his place one night, that they had been driven away from their home by several Japanese, who walked around the veranda surrounding the house. These
 ntruders made no attempt to enter the house. which had been barricaded by Kendall and his wife, who armed themselves to repel an attack. Final ly, after the unwelcome visitors with drew, the aged couple hastened to Crospers home, where they spent the night.
 With the impanneling of a jury. the man hunters came in from nearby canyons and the house of mystery was soon surrounded by small regi- ment of heavily armed mountaineers. All day long more of the ghastly relics of the murder were brought to light, but considering the enormity of the crime. tangible evidence of it's commission is pitifully small.
 Besides the blood stained axe, hammer and boots, a number of skull bones were found today in a creek.
 District Attorney Lea is endeavor- ing tonight to find a 30-30 calibre rifle which Tom Kendall is believed to have owned. It is his theory that the murderer after stealing the weapon, hid himself on one of the points which command an unrestrict ed view of the premises, and shot his victims one by one, the mother as she worked about the little garden, the father as he came out of the canyon where he had been hunting and the son as he came home from Crosper's resort.
 E. H. Harding of Fruitvale, a brother in law of Mrs. Kendall, and pr. J. F. Henry of Fruitvale, life long friend of the Kendall family, ar rived here today to assist in the in vestigation. Dr. Henry identified the half cooked torso found in the can yon as that of woman and broke down when he realized that it must be all that is mortal of his Kentucky schoolmate and lifelong friend. The inquest will be resumed tomor- row at Cazadero.
 In a statement late tonight, Dis trict Attorney Lea said that the dis covery of a blood trail leading from the gate of the ranch to the creek confirms the theory that Tom Ken dan was shot from ambush as he was returning from Crosper's. Ken dall. desperately wounded, evidently leaped from his horse and sought