Arizona republican., 1913-07-31
FOUL CRIME
 VAS PRICES
Gochiee Cod1lt, t,ieaileot of Mu1derers Will Enter Upon a Life Term in the State Penitentiary Today.

| Luther Price. a cowboy. of Cochise e unty will enter upOn 2 life term in the penitentiary today for one of the i '''5s5 i's'. siO.e mu.ueTs IF the history of Cechise county. I; was committed on June 15. The victim was Tol Will son, who had be1, ended Pr in many ways and at tae time of .he murder. Price was accompanying him to Doug- ias where tue lsllter was g0iEg to buy some hcrses. Wilson had s3OO and Price. according to his confession de- termined when ne set out on the jour ney. to murder his friend for the money His nerve failed him when he was about to carry out various plans but when they went into camp near Pearce a new plan suggested it. self.
 Near the shaft was a 275-foot shaft of an abandoned mine. Price so ar ranged affairs that the blankets were spread not far from the mouth of the shaft and in the night when Wilson was sleeping soundly under the influ- e1ice of liquor with which Price had been plying him all day, then he rolled him into the shaft
 The shaft was partially filled with water so that if the fall had not killed the victim he would have been drown ei. Price fingered about the place un- til enough time had elapsed to allow the completion of the journey to'Doug- las and then he returned with the story that Wilson had made up his mind to go to Los Angeles. Suspicion was at once aroused and the friends of Will son set out over the trail which he and Price had taken. Beyond the shaft the tracks of only one man could be found while before reaching the shaft the tracks of two were plainly visible About that time too, the stench from the shaft told the rest of the story and Price was taken into custody. After. an awkward story of his innocence he weakened and told how his friend came to his death
 He was taken before Judge Lock wood at Tombstone where he was si- lowed to plead guilty, and was S=n- tenced to the pententiary for life
 A curious fatality has hung about the Wilson family for years It began with the murder of a young man by the name of Moore several years ago.
 
 the same time killed Deputy Sheriff Ainsworth, who was with Moore and had a warrant for the arrest of the brother on charge of cattle stealing The charge is believed to have been trumped up by Moore between whom and one of the Haldermans there was jealousy over one of the Wilson girls.
 For the killing of Ainsworth and Moore. the Haldermans were tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged The case was fought stubborrly through the courts of. the territory. Judge c. F. Ainsworth, a brother of one of the victims being then attorney gen eral. The judgment of the lower court having been affirmed and an appeal for clemency having been denied by the governor. final appeal was made to President Mckinley. That was also de- nied and the Haldermans were hanged
 Since then a brother of Wilson has been killed, a sister sometime ago com mitted suicide at Pearce, and another sister was recently committed to the asylum for the insane. Another broth CT is now serving a term at Florence for grand larcency. In that case Price had been summoned as a witness for the state but, Wilson pleaded guilty.