Arizona republican., 1910-12-03
AT0NEMENT
 FOR CRIME Sanchez and Barela Pdid
 Extreme Penalty EXECUTION WELL ORDERED
Application of Spanish Con sul in San Francisco for Communication in Behalf of Sanchez Proved Ineffect-
 ual-T They Died Bravely.

Florence, Ariz., Dec. 2.-tSpeciaD- The vigils of the deathwatch over Rafael Barela ana Cesario Sanches in the steel-bound cell at the terri torial prison in which are lodged, pending execution, all prisoners un- der death sentences. ended at lO:SO a. m. Friday. December ?. 1910, for at that hour those unfortunate fel- ons were led forth to the scaffold by the. warden to yield up their lives at the behest of the law. The sol emn procession was led by Rev. Jos eph Colombo. a Catholic priest, who had been administering spiritual so- lace to the condemned men since their incarceration in the death chamber.
 Sanches was the first victim placed on the trap door. He had nerved himself for the ordeal and stood as immovable as a statue while the guards strapped his limbs together and placed the black cap upon his head and the moose around his neck The priest then pressed a cross to the condemned mans lips and knelt before him in silent prayer at the conclusion of which the trap was sprung and the body shot into the death room under the scaffold. The neck was broken and Sanches died in 12h minutes without a struggle. When Drs Geo. NJ. Broadway and Edward S Godfrey. Jr, pronounced moved and placed in a coffin in the prison corridor.
 BareIa was then led to the scaf- fold Like his comrade in crime. he exhibited the utmost indifference to tha preliminary preparations and gazed at the spectators in calm, unconcerned manner. When the moose had been adjusted about his neck the attending priest pressed the holy cross to his unquivering lips and l1nelt in prayer The trap was sprung and Barela followed his partner in- to eternity, life becoming extinct in his body in 20 minutes.
 Both men were attired in neat fitting black suits of good material and these served as their burial clothes.
 Sanches is a full-blOOded Spaniard and leaves a wife and six children in Fl Paso. Texas The family is quite respectable and one of the daughters holds a position in the El Paso postoffice. He was about S6 years old. weighed 150 pounds and was known in the prison as Num- Der 3327 He had nothing vicious in his appearance aside from a pair of cold, black eyes that possessed. an unpleasant gaze.
 Barela was probably not over %. He weighed 134 pounds and his prison number was 3326. He was a single man and was raised in Fl Paso. where his mother now re- sides.
 The brutal crime for which San ches and Barela were executed was committed September 27 at the cin- der pit. near Flagstaff. and consisted of the murder of Gregorio Conejo. an aged Mexican. with robbery as the motive. It was known to them that their victim carried $21000 on his person and to possess themselves of this small sum of money they de- liberately and with malice afore- thought. literally hacked his body to pieces.
 They were arrested. convicted and sentenced to be hanged all within eight days from the date of the murder. Barela's mother made a strong effort to get her erring sons sentence commuted to life imprison- ment but the acting governor re- fused to interfere with the sentence of the court. The court annals of Arizona do not show another case in which capture. conviction. sen tence and execution followed so swiftly upon the heels of the crime.
 The execution was witnessed by about twenty invited guests. Neither of the condemned men uttered a word on the scaffold.
 Efforts made by the friends of Sanches and Barela to secure a com mutation of sentence. were unavail- ing. The crime was too terrible to warrant any interference and there was no single circumstance connected with it on which could be based justification of clemency, under the law. Sympathetic as the acting gov ernor is known to be with unfortun- ate humanity his duty in this in stance seemed clear to him. Last Saturday he refused the strongest and most prayerful plea possible of the mother of Barela who lives in Fl Paso, transmitting to her a review