Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-21
BIAS L0ZANO IS
MAN WHO BEGAN
FATAL SHOOTING
CrOnemeyer Murder Suspect,
Arrested at ISleta, COnfeSSeS
That He Killed Red Melon
ald' Wezer Again Implicated,

ssfclaL coREEsFoNnEHcH TO MORNING. JOURNAL
Gallup. ~ NJ, Aug 2O.-Blas Lo-
yanO. who was arrested the other day
Al Isleta the other day by Deputy
Sheriff Dan Pipkin and brought here
10 Jail. made a confession late last
night that he was the man who start
ed the shooting in the Cronemeyer
store at Allentown on the evening of
June "a which resulted in The death
of Croncmeyer and his clerk, Red Nc
Donald Lozano stated that the shoot
ing took place about o'clock i'm the
evening This statement, however, is
doubted BY many as it was near 81
o'clock In the evening when CrOne-
MEYERS dying message. a call for help,
came over the telephone wire to the
operator az Houck. Ii may be posi-
bic, however, that Cronemeyer had
been so badly injured that he had lain
unconscious until that tme or was
making his last death struggle. Lo-
zano however, tells a little different
story than that told by Victor WezerI
in his confession yesterday.
Mezer Is Accused
Lozano stated positively that he and
Wezer did all the shooting that was
done and that they and the two others
implicated by Wezer were in the store
at the time He claims that they had
secured five dollars i'm money from
Cronemeyer and had spent the whole
amount for food They then went out
to the hills and went into camp,
where they cooked and ate what they
had purchased
Later about 6 O'Clock, they went
back TO the store and while they were
there they got into an argument with
Red Mcdonald. Lozano whipped out
his siX-shooter, a .44-calibre, and shot
Mcdonald dead, putting two bullets
into his body Lozano states that il
was not at all their intention to kill
either of the men in the store when
they went there but that the quarrel
came up over an old watch that they
were then trying TO pawn for more
money. After Mcdonald had BEEN
shot by Lozano, Wezer pulled his re-
yolver SS-caIibre, and opened fire
on Cronemeyer
As he stated it, they had to kill
CrOnemeyer SO that he could not tell
the story Of the killing of Mcdonald
Six shots in all were fired according
TO his testimony. Wezer shot Crone-
meyer twice, he said, once through
the hand and once through the body
A third shot was fired but this shot
went wild. This is perhaps the bull
leg which struck the wall of the store
which was shown after the murder
occurred.
One Shot Later.
After the four had left the store
and We're running away, Lozano
states, he heard a shot This perhaps
accounts for the empty shell that was
found IN Cronemeyer's rifle, which
was covered with blood when found in
ms room, The blood came from the
wound in his hand, it is believed. Lo-
zano states that the third shot that
was llred at Cronemeyer was fired as
the men We're leaving the store i'm a
rush and he thought the bullet might
nave hit the dead body Of Mcdonald. !
We're Mexican Refugees.
Both Lozano and Wezer were refu-
gees from Old Mexico and it was the
rear OF being caught by Villa and
hanged for treason against his govern
nenl that they had not crossed into
Mexico and escaped Wezer was lo-
Gated through a letter which he wrote
mere TO friend regarding mis- wife
ne and Lozano were watching for q
carload Of ammunition that was soon
70 cross the border, They We're going
10 act as statesmen for the ammunition
70 Whatever faction in Old Mexico !
,ney could reach. They missed the
load of ammunition, however. and had
ueeided to stay in the United States
uhlil another opportunity showed up,
Lo1ano was the most stubborn pris-
Uher that has ever been brought TO |
lne Gallup jail. At first he refused
absolutely to talk on this subject, but
al'er q day Of sweating decided to tell
the whole story