Arizona republican., 1912-09-16
The True Story of the Kill ing of Gomucindo Ozuna on the Night of May II Is Brought to Light at Last
WHY THE WITNESS
 HELD HIS PEACE
He Was the Man at Whom Loreto Verdugo Was Shooting as Result of a Discussion of the Mexican Revolution

James Zuniga came through" yes- terday morning with the information that the sheriffs office, District Att torney Lyman and Justice Johnstone and furnished the information which the authorities have been trying for weeks to get to establish that Loreto Verdugo is the man who killed Co., mecendo Ozuna in front of the Lemon hotel on the night of May II.
 At that time Mike Baltz who was standing near was seriously but not fatally wounded by a random shot fired by the man who killed Ozuna> VerdugO escaped and for a time even his name could not be learned. Mo- body present seemed to have ever seen him before. But couple On months later it was learned from some source that his name was Ver- dugO and acting upon the supposition that he might have been a convict, in- quiry was made at the state prison for the record of a prisoner of that name. Warden Sims sent a de- scription of Loreto Verdugo along with his photograph and the sheriffs office mailed copies of the descrip- ton and the picture to every sheriff in the state.
 Sheriff McGee of Pinal identified the photograph as that of a man he then had in jail almost in the sha- dow of the penitentiary and soon after Verdugo was brought to the county jail here Verdugo denied any part in the shooting and said that at that time he was in Bisbee. It was soon learned that that was not true and that the night before the killing of Ozuna he had shot at a man named Bruce in this city.
 It was generally supposed that the state had a good case against him for the Ozuna affair but it turned out that while there was no real doubt of his guilt, the state was absolutely without a witness who had seen him He was then charged with the Bruce shooting.
 On the night of the killing, Deputy Sheriff Woolf, who went to the scene of it immediately after, believed that Zuniga knew something about it though he persisted in saying that he did not He was merely on the ground but did not know who fired the shot.
 The sheriff's office has been work
 ing ever since and yesterday. Zuniga said that he had been afraid all along that something could be done with him for his unwilling part in the affair but he had learned that he was blameless and was now ready to assist the officers.
 He was not acquainted with the %14 c1,o ;ner hut he said he would know him if he saw him. The mans face had been inn pressed upon him for the reason that he was the intended target of the bullets. He said that the bullet that killed OZuna had been intended for himself
 He said that he had casually met the shooter there and that the latter persisted in talking about the Mexi- can revolution declaring himself to be an adherent of Orozco. Zuniga said that he had taken little part in the conversation and had shown preference for neither but the stranger imagined that he had done so and pulled a revolver and began to shoot.
 Zuniga said that he had learned since that night that it was not a crime to be shot at and that he could not in any way be held responsible for the death of Ozuna.
 He went to the sheriff's office where he gave a description of the man that shot at him and after that he was taken into the jail. He was first led along one side of the corridor, op- posite the side where Verdugo was. He looked at every prisoner and when he came to the cell of Verdugo he at once pointed him out as the man.