Williams news., 1912-03-16
JUDGE X. N. STEEvEs RETURNS TO WILLIAMS

 nicely furnished office next door to the barber shop on Second street, with library second to none in the county, and is already settled down to business.
 Mir Sleeves has made district attorney of which this county can find no fault and we republish what was said of him by the Journal Miner, republican news paper of Prescott, as follows: As criminal prosecutor District Attorney X. N. Sleeves is entitled to the championship of the south west, if not of the entire civilized world. At the recent term of the district court in Flagstaff, Attorney Sleeves succeeded in having two murderers sentenced to be hanged and two other felons sentenced to serve terms in the territorial prison in less than week after the crimes were committed. Five others were also sentenced to terms in the peni tentiary at the same term. Sleeves returned this morning to Flagstaff after two days visit here on off cial business.
 In the unprecedented record made at the Flagstaff term of court Attorney Sleeves was materially assisted by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Doe, the presiding judge. For quick and effective disposa. of criminal cases the rec ord made by these officials is with out a parallel in the history of the country.
 Cissrio Sanchez and Rafael Ba rela were sentenced to pay the death penalty in the territorial prison at Florence, December 2, for the murder of Gregorio Canejo. The killing was the most brutal ever recorded in the criminal an nals of the territory. Robbery was the motive.
 Conejo, 65 years o.d, was em- ploved at the Santa Fe cinder pit near Bellemont. Sanchez and Ba rella also worked there. Owing to his advanced age Nonejo was em ployed carrying water from al spring about a half mile distant. He acted as cashier for himself and two sons, also laborers on the rail- road crew, and had about $250 on his person. Eight days before the murder Sanchez and Barela shaved Conejo at the camp. At the time, Conejo, who regarded them as |"amigos," showed them where he carried the money, stating that it represented the savings of himself and two sons and he intended to return soon to Mexico to join his wife.
 Later in the day Sanchez and Barela planned the murder and robbery. They secured an iron strap of the brake of box car. They sharpened it to point and eight days later lay in wait for Coneio at the spring. Conejo ap peared there at 6:30 o'clock in the morning. They asked him to come to a camp fire and he refused at first. They then told him they wanted to show him a letter re- ceived from his wife in Mexico. He quickly joired them, and while reading the supposed letter one of the murderers ran the charpened brake strap through his heart. He fell to the ground and not content with killing him. the others, accord ing to their own confession, glasped the weapon from his fellow cul- prips hand. and inflicted thirty-one other wounds on their victims body. After securing the money they went to Bellemont, mile and d half distant, where they boarded a Santa Fe train. The dead body of Coneio was found by his two sons at 10 o'clock, after they and their fellow employees became alarmed at Coneio's failure to re- turn with the water.
 The officers were notified and