Bisbee daily review., 1912-10-17
ASSAILANT HELD
 ID HIGH COURT
Man Arrested for Assault on Mexican Girl Had Pre-
 liminary Examination

Witnesses for the county in the case against Jesus Mendoza, charged with criminal assault on Josefa Mo rales, aged two years and two months, were examined yesterday afternoon by Deputy County Attorney Alexander Murry and an information. based on their statements. will be filed in the superior court within the next ten days.
 The statements of witnesses, it is said, makes an iTrefutable case against Mendoza and his trial probably will be among the first to be heard when the superior court trial jury meets. In der the law the county has thirty days in which to file an information, after the defendant has been held to the superior court.
 Woman Follows kssailant
 Francisco Buitterez, an old Mexican woman, is the heroine Of the capture Of Mendoza. Herself the mother of q large family, for three hours after the alleged assault she followed the as- saulter never once losing sight of him, the instinct of outraged mother hood urging her on.
 Ignorant herself Of the telephone, she instrcuted a negro to telephone Cf- fcers of the crime and resumed her shadoWing of the criminal
 Overcomes Prisoner r Mendoza became suspicious once when she followed him too swiftly ! her zeal overcoming her CaUtiousnsss and she was nearly trapped into eX- posing her purpose. Mendoza stopped, ] turned upon the woman and demand ! ed to know who she wanted. "I am looking for 2ncther,' she said ] and passed on, later 10 resume sur ] yeillauce of Mendoza. Finally an off | Ger overlook them and she grabbed l the wiry little Mexican around the l shoulders and exclaimed: This is the man l want. arrest him officer" | For her part in the capture of Men ! doza. the assailant has sworn ven 1 geance against her family-nOt against | his cautor but with devilish cruelty, ! he has sworn to kill her sons. You ! have sons, Mendoza is said to have stated. and I will have vengeance on
 them
 Is Star Witness
 Sonora Ruitterez will be one of the star witnesses against Mendoza and
 she has placed herself at the com mand of the county authorities in con | victing Mendoza Of what officers say is the most brutal crime in the his tory Of Arizona.
 Mendoza Is said to have visited the ! Lopez home several days prior to the
 date on which the crime was commit ted, giving ciroumstantial support to
 the theory that he had planned the commission of the crime at least three
 days in advance. Senora Buitterez
 knew Mendoza as the man named I Jesus who went to the house Of Sen
 ora Lopez three days ago. and when she heard of the crime, instinct, or
 1ather feminine instinct, seems [, have told her that Mendoza was the
 criminal She set out in search oi
 him and found him. While the mar
 was making no great attempt 10 gel away from the city, it is due to heI
 vigilance in shadowing him that Men doza was captured so 4ooR after thu commission of the cTinas Hf Mental Deprsvity Urged Mental deprayity is stamped CD Mendcza's face. His features are bui little more clearly defined than thosl of a monkey The distance betweeI his eyes and the hair line of ths
 forshead, in normal parsons two
 thirds Of the upper half Of the head falls short of being one half Th' eyes are close together and the smal