Arizona republican., 1910-08-18
GALLONS YAWkS IN
 VAIN FOR MARQUEE
A STAY OF EXECUTION GRANTED
 FOR THIRD TIME.
The State Department Again Inter venes to Save the Life of Mur-
 derer of Peter Hodges.

For the third time a stay of eXecu- ton has been granted Francisco Mar quez. who murdered Peter Hodges near Yuma a year ago last June. At the instigation of the Mexican author lties the state department has again intervened and somewhat reluctantly, il is understood, acquiesced to the request of Huntington Wilson, acting secretary of state, and granted the murderer sixty days more of life.
 The reason given for the request for stay of execution was that the Mexican government have an oppor- tunity of presenting further testimony that has not already been heard. A stay of ninety days was asked for, but Governor Sloan granted but sixty days
 MarQuez was to have been hanged May 19 last. Then came the first re- prieve, which extended the time to July 22 On the day before a second reprieve was granted at the request of the state department and the hang ing was again postponed until August 19
 The murderer seems to have power ful friends both in this country and
  sador Enrique c. Creel has taken an interest in the case and everything is being done to give Marquez as long a lease on life as possible and get him off scot free if such a thing is pos sible.
 Marquez was first sentenced to be hanged on December 17, 1909, six months to a day after his crime was committed. The case was appealed to the supreme court, which had no op- portunity to pass upon it until April of this year. thus working stay of execution. The decision of the lower court was then affirmed and Marquez was again sentenced to death on this date In the meantime, he has main tained an air of bravado, cOntending that he killed his victim in self-de- fense, an argument he was unable to sustain before a jury. When sentenced the second time or shortly after, in conversation with an officer. he ex- hibited no particular regret at his fate, remarking. When they hang me they will kill a man, anyhow"
 The crime of Francisco Marquez was a fiendish one and stirred up the citi- zens of Yuma county, where it oc- surred on June r, 1909 as no former criminal incident has for many years. His victim, Peter Hodges, was one of the most popular men in the county and during five days that ensued be- tween the murder and the capture of Marquez, the town was largely de- serted of its able-b bodied men, who in large numbers turned out as vOlun- teers in the man hunt Nearly all the county officials and many citizens as well as peace officers participated. Hodges was one of the older residents of Yuma, had many relatives. and by intermarriages he was connected with many of the best families, both Amer jeans and Mexicans. Marquez was also an old resident and we'll known, not greatly to his own advantage. At the time of the murder there was ap- parently an entire absence of reason able motive. except possibly the pos session of the watch and few dol lars in money, taken from the body by the murderer. The murder was committed at a mining property in the Fortuna mountains, some distance from Yuma. in which Hodges was in terested. It was learned later that. previous to the departure of Hodges and Manuel Aryiso for the mine on the 18th or 17th of June, a woman distantly related to Hodges and partly of Mexican lineage, sought him for protection against advances made to her by MarQuez, who was within nearing at the time, though it was not supposed he could understand En- gIish, in which the conversation took place. Hodges treasured her and told her that when he returned from the mine he would inquire into the mat ter. Marquez saw to it that he did not return alive.
 On June IT Marquez shot Hodges at his camp, approaching surreptitiously, bullet entering the right breast en- tering the right breast and coming out near the left hip. Death was almost instantaneous. Another bullet severe ly. though not dangerously, wounded Manuel Arivoso, who fled to Yuma as fast as possible and gave the alarm. Posses were at once organized and sa intense was public feeling that the Yuma company of the National Guard accompanied some of them, though not officially. for in the event of cap ture summary justice was more than nlnteO dI-
 The hot summer season kept the fugitive from fleeing far into the mountains away from the Gila and Colorado rivers, and in the days that followed he managed to keep himself secreted in. the bottom lands of the two rivers within a radius of twenty miles of Yuma He was captured in the bottoms by a posse of citizens on the afternoon of June 23, and con ducted to the territorial prison, then in Yuma. for safe keeping. m
 The body of Hodges was first found after the flight of Arivso by Albert Hodges. a brother of the dead man. An inquest was held at the place by the coroner, who had gone there, and the verdict found Marquez guilty, as later verified by the trial court