Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-05
JOHN JObE WAS COCH|SE CO.
 RANCHER
Victim of Killing at Miami lnI BiSbee Three Weeks
 Ago

John lobe, the man who was found dead. with a bullet hole through his heart, at Miami. Ariz. Wednesday,. morning was a rancher in the Hua@ chuca mountains, Cochise county, and was in Bisbee, according to local of ficeu5 three weeks ago. What he was doing here then no one seems to know. At Miami is was said that he came there looking for lost horses.
 lobe is well known in Bhsbee and this county He was sent to the peni- tentiary from Cochise county several years ago on the charge of horse stealing and sentenced to three years. 1t is said that only recently he was released. Jobe's sister. who was in the room adjoining to that in which lobe wal killed at the Miami resort. cnee lived here in the red light dis trict. being known to the denizens of that section as Pancake Lily She called herself Bertha Powell.
 The killing of lobe, according to a'ivices from Miami. is something of a mystery. A woman, Annie Pat terson. in whose room lobe was found cead, is in jail at Globe pending an investigation oi the killing.
 When Sheriff Thompson arrived he found a picture knocked from the wall and broken, one leg of stove knocked out and the neck Of whis- key flask broken off. says the Globe Silver Belt.
 Iobe's sister. also an inmate or the house. was in an adjoining room with man said to be Joe Luchessa.
 A coroners jury at Miami Wednes- day afternoon partly finished its hear ing and will conclude it this morning Some of the witnesses are missing, among them Luchessa. The testi- mony thus far taken was to the effect that lobe. had been heard to plead with the Patterson woman for the gun just before the single shot was fired The gun was found with three empty chambers. the hammer down on the third one, the trigger possibly hay ing been pulled after the fatal shot
 Annie Patterson denies that she was in the room when the shot was fired
 His sister and had some words, she said. He took my part was not in the room when the shot was fired. had gone down to the bath room. When I came back he was lyt ing on the floor I thought he was fooling me Then when I found he was dead l screamed for his sister She wouldn't come. l never heart any shot"
 The woman said that after her guar rel with Jobe's sister. lobe had quar- reled with his sister. The sister cali ed herelf Bertha Powell They both had threatend to kill themselves, said the Patterson woman. The boy used 10 get morose and say nobody cared anything about him His sis ter was just the same. Just lew nights ago she said she was going to kill herself"
 Annie Patterson was little more than a wreck as she told her story. Her answers to questions were slow in coming. Little by little the story came out-one often told: the daugh- ter of good family. family that gave her a good education, a love affair. a quarrel. pride and then the crash as pride gave way before the final fall into the twinkle and ( i'm mer of the crimson world. WhiskeS and the flash of 8 loaded revolver and now the thick steel bars O. the county jaiI shut Annie Patterson away from the world she used to know.
 She covered her face with her hand much of the time as she talked When she did speak her language was { excellent. but soft with the accent oi ! her Virginia ancestry, from when ,5he says she sprang T was porn : in Virginia. she said
 1 Then her trouble came back to her What do you think; he had to come into my room to kill himseli I said to Violet after he was dead,
 she said. ~Oh. why did he have te do that2T
 Asked about her relatives. she plead ed that they be spared the humilia tion Of connection with her plight
 T haven't any people, she said al
 first. Then she added I'm ostra
 cized from my peop!e-by my peo
 rle mean.
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 Prescott. Please don't Then sh'
 said she had worked in hotel Il
 Prescott and came to Globe abou
 six montfs ago with May Chisholm
 one of the witnesses in the Piennr
 Stokes case. She said her mothe
 was living and that brother 9
 New York newspaper man. she dl' not give their names.
 Then the unfortunate woman tob 1 of her downfall. Its only been ST :! months. she said. seeming to urg ] it as a defense. She told of havin ] Teen engaged to marry a man T ! Phoenix. They quarreled. Then wiu ] the Chisholm woman she left, con i ing to Globe, she said, to secure worh ! .I thought I could get work in tn ! telephone exchange. l couldn't. The :. I wired Billy and told him I'd com :. back home if he's send me money He sent me the money. Then fe
 low with May sso,e the money.