Arizona republican., 1911-01-10
Chavez Here En- Route To
Florence For Execution
PEREZ FATE IN BALANCE
Rhodes Case Continued for
Term and Powell Granted
Change of Venue Stor-
les of the Crimes Commit
ted by Chavez and Perez.


gree by a jury which returned it:
verdict on Friday morning. January
g. Date of execution was fixed fol-
Friday, March II. Chavez feigned tC
be little concerned by the sentence and
walked from the court room with q
smile on his face. as though he had
been a leading figure in a good joke
Eduardo Perez was also convicted OF
murder in the first degree a few
days ago and was to have been SEN
fenced today but a motion was made
for arrest of judgment and other
legal points were brought up that
seemed by the court to demand care
full consideration, SO the pronouncing
of sentence in his case was post
poned until February =.
Sheriff Smith of Yavapai arrived
here last night, enroute to the
pen with Chavez. who will be
executed there unless something
intcrvenes to affect the SEN
tence that cannot now be con-
ceived. for his crime was a particu-
larry atrocious one The sheriff ar
ranged in advance for the services of
Deputy Sheriff Billy Wilson as a
death watch during the stay of Cha
vez in the Maricopa county Jail, which
will probably be until the Florence
| train arrives today. The death watch.
| il is understood. is required by law
during the entire time elapsing be-
tween sentence and execution, and
the employment of Mr.. Wilson does
not indicate that the prisoner has
any special designs on his own life.
Suicide, however, is often sought by
the condemned and it is always guard
ed against. Chavez crime is thus
described in the Journal Miner:
Chavez shot and killed Charles +.
King, night officer of Jerome. the
night of August %. 1910. between s
and 3 O'Clock. Officer King was shot
i'm the back. the bullet lodging uEder
his heart. He succumbed to the
wound four days later. That Chavez
also intended to kill a woman with
whom he was living appears from the
evidence introduced at his preliminary
examination and the trial in the dis
trict court
Less than two hours preceding the
shooting Chavez purchased a 3s-cali-
Der pistol and a box of cartridges
from the manager of the T F. Miller
Co.'S hardware store. He left the
Miller. store. going to the Wigwam
saloon, where he asked the proprietor
for drink. While walking out of the
place with the pistol and box of cart !
ridges in his hand. he said that he
was going down to kill the woman
Arriving in front of the stone house |
part of which was occupied as a resi-
dence by him and the woman. he fired |
three shots. This attracted the atten- |
ton of Officer King. who was on duty |
a short distance away. Arriving in |
front of the stone house. which Cha
veZ had entered. Mr.. King stopped |
to ask a Mexican girl who was doing |
the shooting, when Chavez fired !
an open window from the |
inside of the house, which he had !
the bullet striking the girl i'm |
the leg. A second bullet, fired almost |
by Chavez. entered Mr. |
Kings back. half inch to the right |
of the spinal column, ranging upward /
and lodging between the skin and the /
fourth rib in front. Mr. King fell /
and was assisted to his feet by an
eyewitness of the shooting He was
taken to the United Verde hospital.
where he died as a result OF the
wound, August 81.
Soon after the shooting Chavez
came out of the house and. seeing a
patient looking out of the window
Of the upper story of the hospital.
raised his weapon and fired at him.
the bullet striking a brick at the side
Of the hospital
He was arrested a few minutes
later, near the hospital, by Fred Haw-
kins. marshal of Jerome. who foBnd
The weapon in his pocket with five
chambers loaded. Since his arrest
Chavez has shown no conjunction for
MS crime. He is said to be a hard
ened criminal He was convicted in
his county in 1901 on the charge of
assault with intent to commit murder
md served five years in the terri
orial prison. While the jury was de-
iberating on his case. Thursday night.
he substance of his remarks is not
lnown."
Equally as atrocious i'm the cruelty
# its performance was the crime or
Eduardo Perez. the only difference be-
ng that Perez killed a man with
whom he had had some trouble before. ..
fence there was more apparent rea-
on for his murderous anger, what
yer the merit or dement's of the
ase. This crime was committed last
august in Congress Junction.
Perez and Feliciano Chacon were
9th paying attention to the same
fexican woman. a resident of Con-
ress. few miles from the junction.
hey met one night in Congress and
ad an alteration of some kind The
ext day they met again in Congress
JUNCTION and had few drinks to-
ether, after which Perez asked Cha
On to take a walk up the railroad
'ack with him and they departed.
on amicable terms They
nd proceeded but two or three hum
red yards when Perez in some way y