Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-28
MURDERS ARE. GRAPHICALLY. TOLD ABOUT
Staying of Richard Urban and Mexican Boy, and Alleged At-
 tempted Murder of Cooper Is
 Charged to Mexican Bandit.
Officials of BoCoaChi Find the
 Bodies, One at Bottom of Shaft, Other on Surface; No Clues Left by the Assassin.

Clues Left by the Assassin.
 NACO. Nay 27-The details of the investigation of the murder of Richard Urban, at the Claborg camp. con- ducted by Americans was learned here today. While the finding of the bodies and the evidence gath cred by the Mexican authorities proved certain assertions made. the exact manner in which Urban came to his death Is stiu in doubt
 The mountain tragedy was first reported Co Cananea, according 10 the advices received here. by George Cooper Urban's partner. who reached the border from the scene of the double killing.
 American Consular Agent Charles Montague reported it 10 Washington authorities. The report reached camp that Urban, badly wounded. had reached Bocoachi and Montague. ac. compsnied by an American physician left Cananea. Arriving at the little town on the river. it was found that instead of having been brought to Bocoachi. the American had been killed at the Claborg camp. as stated by Cooper
 The first known of the early morn ing tragedy in Bocoachi was the sec. ond day after Urban. Cooper and the Mexican boy had left The Mexican boy was to bring Clsborgs effects back to the town He did not return Becoming alarmed. bis brother started out and on reaching the camp saw Urbans body in the same place as described by Cooper He returned posthaste and reported the affair to Presidente Eleuterio Martinez and lsmael Robles, the local judge
 Forming a posse of dozen citl- zens the judge visited the camp. Urban was found with his body badly decomposed. his face and DOT. tions of the corpse being eaten away by the animals and insects. His cai- fridge belt and revolver were gone, but Under his body was pistol scabbard evidently placed there after his death. A bullet hole through his chin leaving the head back of the right ear gave mute evidence 6f how he met his death A search of his clothes showed that any papers or trinkets he might have possessed were gone. A short piece of rope was found lying near the body. His wrists were bruised and badly dis colored as if they had been tied before death. Unable to remove the | body, brush was piled over the bloated remains and set fire to as the posse prepared Co leave. The amount | of wood was insufficient to cremate the corpse and it was Jeff scorched and scared, with the garments con sumed by the fire, while the posse returned to Bocoachi
 The next day they returned to the camp and after burying the body, be- gan a reconnoiter of the camp for several hundred yards in all direc- tons.
 The house, where the Mexican was said 10 have been shooting from gave no clues. There were no empty car tridges, little or no signs of recent occupancy--a few letters to ClabOfg and an old book or two being the sum total Of the evidence.
 The disappearance of the Mexican boy who len a young wife in Bo- 1 coachi. in a delicate condition. was not unravelled until an empty 3O-30 cartridge was found at the mouth Of the shaft This was the only empty shell found
 At the bottom of the shaft le9 feet underground was the body Of the young man. There was a bullet hole through his forehead, which was powder burned Twenty feet from the top of the shaft was a blotch Of bis hair and blood on Che side walls of the shaft His hat had a bullet hole through the brim Over hls shoulders hung two shovels. On his back was strapped package nf drill steel The indications were that he had descended to the bottom of the shaft. where gathering to- gether the mining tools be had started on the long climb to tho sur face on tho ladder from tho bottom and that he had bean Shot as he reached the collar of the shaft
 Removed from the ly5 of the sun land the earnivor6us insects and ani. mals of the surface, the body was In