Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-02-19

case contained quantity of wearing
apparel belonging to Hughes and a
letter from Anderson's mother in San
Diego to him that firmly clinched the
suspicion that young Anderson was
implicated.
Following the search of the well,
every foot of the ground on both the
Hughes ranch where Anderson was
supposed to have been left in charge,
and the Hough ranch where Croft was
located was gone over by the search
ing party. but without result.
Hughes Grave Found
1t was only after City Marshal
Browning of Tempe had gone to Ell
Paso to confirm the identity of Croft
and Anderson that the mystery was
solved. In the jail there Browning
forced Anderson into a confession of
the crime and at 2 O'Clock Saturday
afternoon he telephoned Constable
Woods of the disposition of the body.
The receipt of the news created wide
spread excitement in Tempe and scores
of Tempeans journeyed to the Hughes
ranch, where, in accordance with the
confession, the body was found buried
in an irrigating ditch not fifty yards
from the house where for % years
of the time entirely alone.
A foot beneath the surface of the
ground the diggers encountered an
old bed quilt and in another foot
the body, overlaid with a second
quilt. Considering the time it had
been buried, the body was in. es-
pecially good state of preservation
and it took only one look to establish
it's identity TIE long form, more
than six feet was doubled I'D and
lying on its right side. the side Of
the hea0 where the death blow had
been struck lying uppermost. over the
head was the oead mans vest and
coat.
Bearing out the information iE
Anderson's confession that the crime
was committed between ten and elev-
en- o'clock at night was the fact
that the dead man was dressed in
his customary ranch clothes. A sin
gle piece of tobacco was the ONLY
article contained in the pockets of
any of the clothing, what other things
he might have had evidently being
taken by the murderer when the
crime was committed.
Cover Up Evidence
Mixers who We're on the ranch at
the time recall how water had been
run in that particular ditch where
the body was found three times with
in forty eight hours. Just below the
improyised grave a tapoon bad been
built and thus the spot where the
body was located was always under
water. Since then too. there has
been water in the ditch a good share
of the time and even when the in
formation came as to the location of
the body il was necessary to drain
the water from the lateral before
any digging could be done.
The coroners jury was impareled
at once and the following taking OF
all the necessary evidence the re-
mains were brought to Tempe where
they are being cared for at the T..
i. Carr undertaking parlors pending
arrangements to be made by the rel
atives.
The interest Tempe folks took in
the crime was evident from the
throng Of people who visited the par
lors that afternoon to view the body.
and it has been even more evident
from the crowds that have been con-
stantly in evidence on the streets
ever since Hughes absence was noted
last Tuesday.
Who Anderson Is.
L. Anderson, VINO coniesses to tha
murder Of Hughes, is youth that
Tempe people judge to be about nine
teen or twenty years of age and ap-
parentiy OF foreign descent. Little
is known of him there and just when
he came to Tempe country or be-
came associated with Hughes on
the ranch is not known He had
Undoubtedly been there several months