Arizona republican., 1912-09-10
William Faltin Is Held in the County Jail Suspected of the Murder on Sun day night of Carl Peter sen
BLOOD AND BRAINS
 SCATTERED ABOUT
Body of the Supposed Vic tim Is Not Yet Discov- cred; He Was Heard in the Night Begging for Help

ever committed in this county and as foul as ever was committed any where was discovered yesterday in and about the house of William Fall tin. the owner of a small ranch on South Seventh street, a half mile this side of the river.
 Faltin is in the county jail and search is being made for the body of Faltin says that Petersen is in the hills north of the city prospecting. The authorities are certain that his mangled body is not far from the Tiace where they are sure he met his death.
 Petersen was a teamster and was living with Faltin. It is known that he held note against Faltin for $200, given in consideration for the purchase of a couple of horses; that a small amount had been credited On the note and that Petersen had had a good deal of trouble with Fall tin about the balance.
 Some time on Sunday night Nick Romero, an Italian who lives about 100 yards from the Faltin house. d shack containing two rooms. was awakened by cries for help. They were directed to Nick" Pomero arose and dressed but the cries hay iEg ceased and he, perhaps, being un- willing to take part in what he be- lieved to be a fight did not leave the house.
 Soon after that he heard Faltin hitching his horses to a wagon and heard him drive toward the river Then he came back and drove in the direction of the city and still later returned south and went on to the river. Not long after he came back to the house, he went to the resi- dtnce of Romero and asked him if he had heard anything unusual about hIs house in the night. Romero said that he had not. Later, after Pome- TO had gone, Faltin, who seemed dissatisfied with the answer of Po- nero, returned and asked his wife if she had heard anything. She said that she had heard nothing.
 The neighbors observed that Faltin was busy washing things about the house and scrubbing the floor. Po- nero and his wife saw him carrying something toward an outhouse and then saw him come back empty handed.
 In his conversation with Romero when first he called, without any suggestion from Romero. Faltin said that Petersen had left for the noun tains about five o'clock Romero was sure that he could not have gone at that time This statement. together with the cries he had heard in the rIght the movements of Faltin soon after that and his activity in wash irp things about the house, had aroused the suspicious of Romero and he came to the sheriff's office and told what he had seen and heard.
 Constable James Murphy went to Faiths and after asking him some questions took him into custody. The officer made an investigation and many others were made in the course of the day.
 The floor was blood spattered from the back to the front door. There were marks of blood on the porch in front and in the grass near by were found clots of what was be- lieVed to be brain
 In the afternoon Justice JohnstOne accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Woolf and Constable Murphy re turned to Faiths house and engaged in another search which was re warded by the discovery of other evidences of the butchery. There was an iron bar, a part of the frame work of a blow, to which the share is attached, covered with dried blood particles of brain adhering. A clul about two feet long, also blood GOV cred. was found Then there was fished from the vault of the outhous, a bloody shirt and a pair of over alls-, the front part of which wa. covered with blood In the bed O Faltin was a two ounce bottle O chloroform
 The iron bar and the club wer, found in a ditch covered with ha! and weeds The Pomeros in pre- viousIy describing the movements O Faltin had told the officers they say him carrying hay about from on place to another Under a cot in tn house was found a wet and sOddel blanket. There was much blood ol this. It had the appearance of hay ing been subjected to an attempt t wash the blood away. It is the the orv of the officers that the body 0 Petersen had been wrapped in thi
 
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