Arizona republican., 1911-08-26
MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING
 OF FELIPE VELAsQUEz
HIS STILL MORE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE YESTERDAY
But the Most Mysterious Part of It IS His Own Story of the Incident.

Felipe Vclasqucz is. according to his
 own story. one of the worst shot up
 men who ever lived to tell about it.
 one of the best natured victims of d
 friends CarlcssuosS who ever took to
 the brush to avoid appearing against
 him, and apparently he is also one of
 the most picturesque and facile liars
 who ever faced a friendly disposed of
 ficer. Felipe says he was shot through
 the head. and described the range of
 the bullet in three different directions
 having blood enough on his clothes and
 head and tho bed in which he rcposcd
 for brief time. to offer as proof Of
 any kind of a story he might choose
 to relate.
 Felipe is a good looking Mexican and
 a musician who is regarded as a shin
 ing light in a local musical orsani-
 Zation Early yesterday morning he
 reported to Jailor Perrin that he had
 been shot the day before, and when
 Marshal Moore arrived at his office
 Mir Perrin placed the case before him. The marshal who knows Felipe quite
 well. and knew that he sometimes stays
 at the home of Nick Balsz. 432 west
 Lincoln street. went at once to that
 address to see what he could learn
 He found Felipe in bed his head SWath-
 ed with rags, saturated with blood,
 his shirt and the bed clothing having absorbed an additional quantity of the product of his punctured veins The officer did not care to inspect the wounds as he intimated that he had had the attention of a physician, though he did plan to send the city physi elan to make an inspection. for it ap- pcarcd to the officer that he needed further attention.
 Asked concerning his wounds. Felipe first stated that he was shot in the forehead with a 3S-calibre revolver. the | bullet emerging from the back of his | head. Then he said the gun was ac- cidentally dropped by a friend he was | talking to. and the bullet went in | the back of the head and emerged from | the forehead. The officer thought it | queer that a gun dropped in front of | him would send a bullet in the back | of his head, whereupon Felipe revised | lllN SUI Nt llIE 4lf' " tS Sllbl III lllF mouth the bullet passing through the back of his head. All that the officer can say that he was blood all oyer. including his mouth.
 In rcciting his story Felipe said that between four and five o'clock Thursday afternoon he and a friend he refused to name were at the Gold hotel and for some reason started to the home rf the friend to secure a gun. Return ing to the hotel. their need of a weapon seeming no longer apparent, they de rided to sell or pawn 1t and get a lit le money. presumably to celebrate with While playing with the weapon the friend dropped it and it was eX- 1loded. creating the havoc in evidence. |,
 Efforts to learn how and where he 1 lad spent Thursday night were futile { and asked if he had had the attention l a ,f a physician he said he was fixed ] ] ID late in the night by a young doc J or whose name he did not give and z lad been furnished with some medi- .ine to take Later the officer was shown a bottle of ammonia by some 7 ,ne at the house, which was all the medicine there was in evidence.
 Marshal Moore returned to his office, :, intending to send the city physician to f investigate. but few minutes later. e ome one brought him word that Fe- f pc had made sneak fearing he might |. nave to appear against his friend. A f messenger sent by the marshal vcri- jed the report and since that time, e Do one in authority has been able to e ocato the injured man, though it is f eported he was seen by som" one in V he southwestern part of town some n imo yesterday. a So far as the police know there was IS 70 shooting at the Gold hotel Thurs a lay afternoon, and if Felipes wound s as he describes it. the doctors should ,c made to "Eglain why the man IS r ot dead. r