Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-09-13
MURDER IS PROVED;
MANS BODY IS FOUND
Decaying Corpse is Dug
from Garbage Heap
Proving Crime


stenehing center of a garbage dump.
the body OF Carl Petersen, the Polish
I rancher brutally murdered IN the early
hours OF Monday morning at the house
on South Seventh street he occupied
with William Faltin. was found about
/ II O'Clock today. The exact spot is
less than goo feet away from the
house.
| Witnesses were secured today who
I are willing to swear that last Sat1r-
| day they saw Faltin digging the hole
/ IN which the corpse of his partner
was later inferred. Additional evidence
| has been uncovered which indicates
I that Faltin first tried to ehloroform
/ Petersen as he slept. but that Peter
/ sen awakened and they engaged IN a
terrific struggle. Faltin dragged Pc
I tersen outside the house and beat
him to death with an iron bar.
| Faltin was arrested Monday by
Constable Jim Murphy and has since
been confined in the county Jail.
I When told by his attorney, F. C..
| Struckmeyer. that the body of his
supposed victim had been found, he
seemed mildly surprised but not great
| ~ moved.
/ As it lay whore il had been uncov-
| cred by G. PROMOTE, an Italian lab
orer, the body was viewed by Corcn-
/ er c. W. tombstone and a jury com
! posed of Robert o. Green, p G. Mich
olson, John Williams, A Iben, Frank
I Neither and ]. c. Blaine. Several per
sons who had known Petersen during
his lifetime declared that the remains
We're his. Wearing handkerchiefs over
/ their faces, undertakers lifted the
body into a wagon and remOs ell it
( to the parlors of Easterling and Whit
ney The inquest viii be concluded
at 10 O'Clock tomorrow morning.
Little of the head was left. There
I was just a little of the chin. but the
/ limbs we're badly swollen and dis
/ colored.
When found the body was entirely
naked This had been expected by the
officers. Il was wrapped in an old
comforter. II is believed that il was
/ carried from the house to the rude
I grave in the comforter and blanket.
but the blanket was too valuable to
/ be sacrificed and it was taken back.
( An attempt was made to clean the
blanket before It was found by the
coroner ia the house Monday.
Constable Murphy. who placed Fal.
tin under arrest before any other of.
ficer knew of the affair led the search
for the body Monday afternoon. Tues.
day and this morning. When he ar.
rived at the Faltin ranch early this
morning he had Nick Pomero. the
Italian rancher who owns the adioin.
ing place. set his hired man, Pro,
MOTTO to work on the garbage dump
with shovel and 'pitchfork. Promote
was told 10 tear the dump TO peices.
The Italian will receive the S1O0
offered by the board Of supervisors
late yesterday afternoon for the dis.
covery of Petersen's body
I Several hundred persons took part
in the search yesterday and early
this morning at least $50 were on
the ground.
| The spontaneous manner in which
the people of the community turned
out TO look for that body speaks well
indeed for them" Coroner tombstone
said this morning Mr.. Murphy and
wish to express our thanks for the
ass stance that was rendered. II did
not take the offer OF a reward to in,
duce them to turn out as they were
on the ground yesterday before a re,
ward had been mentioned -
Il was supposed that Faltin hauled
the body away in a wagon a short
time after Pomero heard the sounds
that indicated murder was being
committed. Faltin hooked up a wagon
at that time and drove down toward
the river, returning in about twenty
minutes. Yesterday the searchers
went over every foot Of the country
that Falun could have reached by
wagon at that time. II is nov known
that he carried the body to the grave
where il was discovered and his rea
son for taking the drive is unknown
Yesterday Faltin was questioned
closely about Petersen's whereabouts
and was told Of the search being
made along the river bed
Wei, / can tell you that the body
isn't in the river he said.
The garbage pile where Petersen
was found is reallyfHot a dump at all
but merely a deposit in a hole. All
kinds Of refuse, much Of it straw
and manure. has been thrown into
the hole to fill it up.
Falt MS haystack is almost on the
edge Of the hole 4 pick With which
he is believed TO have dug the grave
was found az the stack.
Coroner tombstone took from the
stove in FaltiR's house a small guam
tty of ashes Some Of the ashes
looked like burned bone Il is thought
that the murderer beat of part Of
Petersen's skull and burned the frag
, ment in the stove
Yesterday a bloody jumper that had
belonged to Petersen was found across
an irrisating ditch east Of the house
Coroner Johnstone's theory is thai
faltin placed il there so that, in
case Of search fer the body the
searchers would be led OF in the
wrong direction.
The identity Of the persons who
say they saw Faltin digging the
grave in the garbage last Saturday
has not been disclosed. They viii prob
ably be Introduced for the first time
a. The preliminary examination 90
possibly not till the case reaches the
superior court.
This and other circumstances. ind.