Weekly journal-miner., 1913-09-10
HELD ON CHARGE OF MURDER|NG
 ESPARC|A
JUAN FERNANDEZ, SUS- PECT IN MURDER CASE, IS DIRECTLY CHARGED DAMAGING EVIDENCE
CFrom Sundays Daily.)

| kr1OIu Ounudy DahyI
 With a chain of circumstantial linked against him, Juan Fernandez, who was suspected of having mur- dered Jose Esparcia on Monday night near Fort Whipple, was yes lterday bound over by Justice of the Peace Charles H. McLane, to stand trial in the Superior Court upon the charge of murder. Inns decision was reached following an all-day hearing. during which the lprosecuting attorney wove an al lmost unbreakable chain of evidence, lmost of which had not been made
 public heretofore.
 | Keenly alert to the drama being
 enacted about him, sat the suspect
 Sharp, black eyes, the true Mexi- can type, sparkled every time a
 witness testified in the Mexican
 tongue. the only language he claims 10 know. His snow white stubby beard and flowing mustache bristled when he gleaned that damaging evi- ldence was heing submitted agalnst him. Ti.ere was not the terrorlzeC . look of a murderer upon his face l There was not even the gaze o one who is an expert at shamming
 Neither was he of the defiant
 sort who maintains, "I'm innocen ! and don't care whether l have oi T haven't counsel and you can d 9 ;u>t as VOL please with me Tn al efort to drive the officials of tn
 track.
 He expressed willingness to an . s>yer il Cr, .tiouS put 10 him ant il at no time since he has been Il custody have his inquisitors caugh lbim in q single contradictory state : ment Sympathy rather than olam C Iaopcared tu be the prevailing senti
 ment of the large number wh
 filled the spacious Superior Cour
 Eoom to attend the hearing. $ Unfamiliar with the rules Of tn r. court room and angered by som e damaging testimony given by Dc , lores Rodrigez, the star witIres Iaoainst him, the prisoner jumped u . and spoke for a full minute m hi Ie native tongue. No one tried [ d stoo him as he strutted up to A; sistant County Attorney Joseph Su u Tvan and with his language an T. gestures tried to convince him th' m he had no right to accept her te' le timonv inasmuch she was Ill, terro go stricken and practically coerced int
 giving testimony by her fear. Tn w interpreter explained the suspect to argument to the court. IT, While at least a half dozen WI ,u nesses have been found to testil ', that the suspect and murdered ma '" were acquainted, the suspect st IT. maintains that he did not know II Id. deceased. Yesterdays hearT " drought out some surprisingly ne =, facts concerning the brutal 1nurd; which was first discovered wh' ct tbe shallow grave of the murder' nd man was found by the road side Il a more than several hundred var
 from Fort Whipple last 1uesd = morning. L. The brunt of testimony connect ed win the dissensions between | ,e- murdered man and suspect appear l. to indicate that the murdered m
 had continuously assaulted the. st 'n- meet. Maria Gonzales, a waitre he in restaurant near the depot, res nd fled that the murdered man and t ,o+ suspect had quarreled in the esta
 .lishment on Monday afternoon a cf that following an assault by
 r,Trdered man, the suspect thre To- ened to kill him. J. C. Stephe tbe who was an eyewitness of quar, 'to ' in which the two and several otl the MeTicans engaged, also testified in- the murdered man assaulting | ur- suspect. Kelley Wilson, an Ind yo- youth who was an eyewitness Sod The last quarrel between the t' neu declared that the old man had b'
 made the target of rocks:
 And yet in the face of tn: t,
 dence the suspect has maintail
 that he did not know the murde
 Decidedly damaging evidence
 submitted by Dolorez Rodrlgez'
 Mexican woman who stayed at T