Arizona republican., 1914-08-22
Sheriff Adams, Baked by Rain of His Prey in Lugo
 Murder at Goldfields, Strikes Trail of Jose Ma ria AlvaradO and Gets Him
SURVIVOR MAKES
 FULL CONFESSION
Man Called Lopez" Breaks Down and in Republican Office Tells Horrible De- tails of the Four Fiendish. Killings

By the strangest coincidence of his sheriff's career, Jeff D. Adams yes- terday arrested Jose Maria AIvarado, the Antonio Lopez" of the Ray wood-cutters' gang, and the last sur vivor of the trio who shot Constable Phin Brown at Ray Wednesday Alvarado. mere youth of twenty-two or three, has made a full statement concerning the bloody acts of his partners, and while ad- hitting he witnessed every killing, and was at the time armed with a six shooter, stoutly, though nervous ly denies his own guilt. Alvarado was identified by member of the Mexican conspiracy as one of their Ray representatives.
 Seeking the murdered of Erasmo Lugo. who was stabbed in his sleep at Goldfield Mine early Thursday Sheriff Adams and Deputy Jim Murphy drove their automobile through fifteen miles of cloudburst. only to lose the trail near the Pinal county line. And then. as they re- turned toward Mesa, having caught wind of the presence of refugee from the Pinal mountains, they hast ened on. and found Aivarado.
 The stories of the murder of Lugo and the catching of Alvarado are SC peculiarly interwoven that it is inn possible to separate them: Lopez" having eluded the posses of Pinai and Gila counties and the Indian trailers in the storm stricken noun tains, had walked all night and all day yesterday to the vicinity of An derson Wells, seventeen miles out of Mesa on the old Florence road. Adams and Murphy, after having lost the trail of Librado Encinas, the cold blooded killer of Lugo, also ap preached the Wells, and warned of the presence. of Alvarado, made af- ter. him in the car A. N. Smith. a with the body of Lugo, first saw Alvarado -plodding wearily along the road He got the young man to en- ter his car, to ride to Mesa, believ- ing that in his find he possessed the Lugo murderer. as we'll as Lugo, himself.
 The officers, overhauling Smiths car. took Alvarado and questioned him. He freely adI..itted being the third member of Pete Smiths gang. and told disjointed, but amazing tale of the murders.
 Before being taken to the county jail. Alvarado was brought to The Republican office, where his state ment was drawn from him by Jim Murphy It is as follows:
 Alvarado's Story
 When Brown came to our camp Wednesday morning, he demanded that Smith give up the horse and surrender. Smith and Amaya killed Brown and robbed his body. Then they chased the other boy down the canyon. caught him, and
 'Le colgaron de un arbol, ie mataron con sus rifles
 Hanged him to a tree with rope and then killed. him with their rifles
 This fiendish detail is substanti- ated by the description of a member of the second Ray posse. who adds, in a statement to The Republican;
 ''The body and tree trunk from which it had been suspended, were riddled with bullets. The work was plainly that of the most cruel and daprayad of nl,IrdererS"
 Alvarado continued:
 We went back to camp and got more guns and then went down the canyon. We knew the officers were coming to find out what was the matter with Brown. When they came, we opened fire on them from the brush. Pete Smith was shot in the mouth and the bullet tore out the back of his head We left him and ran back to the camp. Ubaldo and I started to go to Superior. We came on the camp of the Americanos from Ray. They were sleeping, roll ed up in their blankets"
 Here the tale stopped. and it was only by plying Alvarado with ques- tions that further information was elicited On the basis of the Ray informant's statement, Republican reporter asked Alvarado if it were not true that Miller and Bacon had been strangled with their own belts before being shot. Alvarado admit ted this was true, making signifi- cant sign around his throat with his hands and rolling up his eyes after the manner of man being choked.
 When they were choked with their "cinches," Ubaldo shot them several times with his rifle. Then we took the money and other things Continued on Page Five)