The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-15

| give up the gun. For answer Allen
 der threw the gun down on his wife
 and threatened to shoot. She beg ged for her life and Thompson per
 suaded Allender not to shoot her. He
 then threw the gun down on Thomp-
 son and threatened to kill him but Thomp pson talked him out of it.
 After killing two men and wounding
 two others Allender barricaded him. self in his carpenter shop on Chase
 Creek. He sent his wife across the
 street for bottle of whiskey which she got for him. A few minutes later Allender sent his wife out of the build
 ing with a message that he wanted to talk to Bill Summers, a friend of his.
 When Mrs. .Allender came out of ti's
 building the second time she was
 taken in custody by Sheriff Patty. In the meantime members of the posse
 had been stationed around the build ing and those stationed in the rear be- gan firing into the building with the intention of driving Allender out the front door. The firing ceased tenn porarily and Summers went up to the
 front door and talked to Allender. He
 wanted Summers to send Sheriff Patty
 to the front door. When asked if he
 wanted to surrender to Patty he re-
 piled mo-, but that he wanted to talk
 to him. It is believed that Allender
 desired to kill Ptaty before he cont
 mitted suicide as 1t was later proven
 that Allender had threatened to "get" Patty. With Allender's refusal to sur
 render to Summers, or the Sheriff. the
 firing upon the building again com menced from the front and the rear
 where the posse was concealed be- hind colums, and on the roof of ad-
 joining buildings, During the fusil- ade Allender appeared at the front door for an instant and was shot by Deputy Sheriff Keppler with a shot gun, the load crippling the man in the shoulder. Allender then went to the rear of the carpenter shop and crawling behind bed placed a six shooter against his ear and pulled the trigger, committing suicide. A mem- Der of the posse broke into the build- ing, after hearing the shot from tho inside, and found Allender lying in a pool of his own blood
 The dead bodies of Allender, ,Barrone and Dorr were taken to the undertak- ing parlors of Pascoe. Allender was buried on Thursday morning. The | funeral of Johnny Barrone was held | on Thursday afternoon and the re- mains of F. B. Dorr were laid to rest ] on Friday afternoon.
 On Tuesday afternoon, few hours the murder, Allender :. ap- preached Dorr and demanded a settle nent of his interest in the theatre. MT. Dorr announced his willingness o make settlement according to the agreement and contract entered into between Allender, ,DOrr andAndres last August. According to the terms of he contract Dorr was indebted to Al ender in the sum of $41 .45. Allen Ter disputed this settlement and Dorr hen placed the contract together with he receipts for money paid Allender n the hands of Attorney B. E.. Wall. Wall went to Allender and again made the tender of $41.4 as settle { nent in full, presenting a check from ( )orr to Allender for this amount. AL l ender refused to settle and MT. Wall 1ade the tender in cash. Notwith- ] tandins the terms of the contract Al l snder contended that Dorr still owed i'm $25OOO and threatened to come to