Bisbee daily review., 1915-12-11
MURDERER OF PHIN BROWN 6OES ID
 DEATH
First Execution to Take Place Since Arizona Became State and Since G. w. p. Hunt Be- came Governor Is Held.
DEATH TRAP SPRUNG
 AT 3:15 IN AFTERNOON
ViIlaloboS Goes to GaIIoWS Main taining His Innocence to the End; Probable That Other HangingS Will Take Place.

PHOENIX, Dec. to.-(speoial
 to the ReVew)-Ramen Vilalo-
 bos, murderer of Deputy Sheriff
 Phineas Brown at Ray, in August
 1914, was hanged this afternoon
 at the state prison at Florence.
 The trap was sprung st SIS and
 fourteen minutes later the first
 man to be executed since Arizona
 became state, was pronounced
 dead
 Villalobos, accompanied by Fath-
 CT Peter Heriz, walked to the
 death chamber with a firm step
 repeating after the priest a brief
 suppication fer mercy. He took
 hio place with little assistance and
 maintained his innocence until the
 black cap had been adjusted.
 The trap was sprung by prison
 guard whose name is withheld
 The Spanish Alliance Society Of
 Florence took charge of the body
 Villslobos having no known rela-
 lives in this country.
 When the drop was sprung at tho state penitentiary at Florence thii afternoon ana Ramon Viualoboi swung away into eternity a perio, was placed to one of the most remark able battles for a cause" that hal ever been waged in the United States
 For nearly four years the oppou ents of capital punishment have beel able to stave off the inniction of tn, death penalty, and only after ever, resource known to the law had beel availed of was the black cap adjustel over the head of the Mexican slaye of Deputy Sheriff Phineas Brown.
 Early in the day it was admittel that there was small likelihood O further intervention and the tnishin touches were put upon the grewsom preliminaries. The execution wa well handled and there were no hitcl es in the proceedings There wer few witnesses outside Of prison off cials, the attending priest. a coupl of newspaper men. and Assistant Al torney General George Harben, wh represented the Attorney Generals O hce-15 in all
 Vnlalobos was shaved and read for the terrible ordeal as early a S:3O o'clock this morning. He wa taken from the condemned cell the prison barbershop and there b told other prisoners good bye, and al peared very cheerful He said h was a victim of circumstances an that he was not guilty The pries remained with him during the day
 Viualobos said he slept like a bab last night" He was asleep whe Father Herlz called at six o'clock th morning. He ate no breakfast an when lunch was taken him at moo he stated he didn't care to eat whil dying
 The condemned man made a stat ment 10 the priest in which he is sal to have maintained his innocence.
 None Of the members of the pardo board went 10 the prison today. Chai man Frank Trott is ill with gripp Attorney General Wiley Jones state that there was no reason why ti board should be there The boai late yesterday reprieved W. W. Ike meen. who was to hang today, uni January 2, which is also the date 8 for the execution of William Faltl
 The question of the sanity of Falt and Kermeen is to be determined b fore they are hanged. With the tablishment of the precedent of days hanging it is expected that tl eleven other condemned men will executed in accordance with the Ia
 The fight against capital punis ment will be carried on and present' to Che voters again next fall throul an initiative petition.