Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-15
DO
 GOOD SERVICE
Two Arrests Made That Have an Important
 Bearing on Mur-
 der Case
IN SELIGMAN AFFAIR

PRESCOTT, Alarcah l4:-Deputy Sherifs Frank Burnell and Joe Young have performed a clever piece Of detective work in connec- ton with the murder committed at Seligman on March [, of J. \. Smith and whether the two Mexicans ar rested are guilty or not the chain of evidence established is said to be very strong against lone of them named Felipe Aguilera. while his companion named Trinidad Men dibles is held principally as a wit. ness.
 From Assistant County Attorney J. II. Morgan who returned Sunday from Ash Fork, where the prelimin- ary examination of the two men ac- oused, was held. particulars of this wanton murder were learned, which was one of the most cruel and ghastly in execution that has ever occurred in this section. The de ceased was killed, it is believed while he was asleep in an old abandoned Indian hut. about three o'clock in the morning and the weapon used was an axe. One blow struck him on the left Side of the face. crushing in the temple and the jawbone. The flat side of the axe was evidently used for this purpose, and it is the sup position the dead man was struck while lying down. An investigation of the body also revealed other wounds inflicted by what is believed to have been a knife. A gash on the throat four inches long was seen but which did not sever the wind pipe, while on his chin was another wound which penetrated the bone These wounds are believed to have been poorly executed from the dark ness that was prevailing. while tho axe was used in the first attacI with the assistance of lighted match
 Without any clew whatever Deputies Burnell and Young started to work on the case the next day An old Indian was met who gave the first information of having seer two Mexicans leave Seligman or fcot early that morning for the wes' along the railroad track, Going tC the hut. the two officers began cut ting the trail for tracks. Their at tention was attracted to tracks fresh ly made leading out of the door O the hut which were of unusua
 length and very narrow indicating that the person who wore the shoe had an abnormal foot Taking tn, measurement ol this imprint in tn, soil, and acting on the information gwen by the Indian, the two Officeri | hnarHnd ha. nf -fa aA Gf Near Nelson they arrested the twt above named men, and forthwith took from them all their persona effects and made an examination o 1 theiI shoes.
 Aguilera's foot measurement it i said, was found to be indentical witt 1 the tracks made at the hut wher'
 Smith was killed, while in anotbe i instance his two pocket knives wer | IounG, it is claimed, to be blood | stained. The knuckle on one ibil i blade carried stains of blood, and
 Is the supposition that while it wa | being cleaned in the dirt, consider ! able of the blood was carried [, | that point where il had coagulated In the examination held at Asl
 Fork, Aguilera stated that he ha' ! slept in the sand house of the rail i road on the night of the murder, bu | Salvador Beccari, in charge Of tn | place, contradicted that statement i The old Indian also testified that h. | saw these two men early in tn morning close to the hut, after whicl
 they went down the grade. Men | dibles is being held as a witness i while Aguilera goes to the gram jury.