Arizona republican., 1914-09-29
LAST KILLER
 |S ROUNDED UP
Ramon Villaloboz, Partner in Ray Woodcutters' Camp Crimes, Confesses to His Wilful Complicity in Kill ings Last August

through tne hay murders. Ou nave got me. I am ready to take my me- dicine. I hold up my right hand and swear I have confessed the truth, and I leave the rest to God.'
 Thus did Ramon Villaloboz make a clean breast of his part in the whole sale murders at Ray back in August, that mortified the whole country. VillaloboZ, on his own confession in the sheriff's office yesterday, is the | last of the gang responsible for the outrage at Ray, to be accounted for. He it is, who with Pete Smith. start ed things by murdering Officer Phinn Brown and the young French Cana dian in Devils Canyon.
 The arrest of Villaloboz is the cul- , imitation of ceaseless work on the part of Henry Hall, sheriff of Pinal county, Sheriff John D. Patty of Greenlee and City Marshal G. L. Crawford of Clifton. With the aid of a Mexican tracker Villaloboz was trailed from the scene of the crimes lin Devils Canyon to Globe, and thence to his brothers house in Cliff ton, where they closed in on him Sun day morning just within a few hours of a planned flight across the border into Mexico
 In the sheriff's office in Phoenix yesterday morning Villaloboz made a complete confession in a statement of his movements on that night in De- wills Canyon and his subsequent eva sion of the officers of the law. Villa loboZ met up with the Mexican camp on a trip out of Miami It was there that he and Pete Smith became part ners. Together they went to Su- perior, where they found hitched in 1 the street the horse that was the cause of the bloody murders. Smith announced that he was going to steal the horse. Untying it he told Villa
 loboz to mount up behind him. To- gether they rode back to camp. The next morning they were eat ing breakfast when Officer Phinn ! Brown and the boy made their ap- pearance calling for Pete. Smith was expecting them for as he saw them approach he said to VillaloboZ: Here , they are I want you to stay with me-" Villaloboz answered, All right, he would see him through" They killed the officer and later the boy. Mounting the officers horse and the stolen horse they rode round by a
 circuitous route to the head of the
 canyon where they came upon the camp of the two boys, Frank Bacon al Iah
 that while Pete Smith went down
 into the canyon he remained on a
 hill. He heard shots from the di-
 rection of where Smith was, then followed silence A few minutes later
 Smith joined him on the hill and said that everything was all right
 He had shot the two miners.
 After this they rode up onto one of
 the mountains to the camp of a I friend and got a package of lunch. This Smith tied to the horn of his
 saddle and they rode back into the
 canyon to the shack of a friend. It
 was there that the second posse of officers came up with them. They
 immediately opened fire on the posse.
 The firing became so thick that Smith
 shouted to Villaloboz to back up. As
 he did so Smith was dropped by a
 shot fired by Curly Henderson, falling
 on his face Villaloboz made his escape and made his way down to
 Kelvin, where he claims, he took to i the railroad ties and reached his brothers house in Clifton, where he
 remained in hiding until arrested on Sunday.
 The trailing and arrest of the last
 of the murderous gang is a triumph
 for Sheriff Henry Hall in company
 with Sheriff Patty and Marshal Craw-
 ford. Since the crimes back in Au-
 gust Sheriff Hall has stuck to his
 man until he had the whole net
 frightened around him. A Mexican
 tracker has been on the trail of the
 man. Tracks led him into Globe
 where he completely lost all trace of
 him and it was some time before he
 again picked up the trail From
 Globe the chase led him right to the
 house in Clifton where Villaloboz was
 finally rounded up. The Mexican de-
 tective on discovering that he had
 run the man down, at once communi- fcated with Sheriff Patty, who with
 Marshal Crawford lost no time in making the arrest. Sheriff Hall was
 immediately wired to come and get
 the man.
 1 In the house the officers found
 everything in preparation to put Nil- :, laloboZ across the border into Mex ' ico. The brother had furnished him
 with a new outfit and was doing
 his best to get him out of the f country.
 | The prisoners statement is given added credence from his immediate | recognition of Jose Maria Alvarado in :, the county jail, as a member of the f Mexican camp Villaloboz brought ! his confession to a close by solemnly 1 swearing by his raised hand to the | veracity of his confession. "He was I ready to take his medicine and would leave the rest to God" Villalobo2 l explains his hand in the affair as \ loyalty to his promise to Pete Smith I that he would stay with him. II VillaloboZ is clean-cut Mexican thirty-five years Of age and standing II six foot. The taking of this man ac-
 counts for the whole gang implicated II in the crimes in Devils Canyon lr which four white men were murdered
 and three of the Mexican murderers were shot dead by the sheriff posses.