Weekly journal-miner., 1917-03-14
CHAVEZ ADMITS RASMUSSEN
 ASSAULT
BUT CLAIMS SALAZAR, A PAL DID DEED; MAKES FRANK CONFESSION TO COUNTY ATTORNEY; TO BE IDENTIFIED TODAY.
(From Fridays Daily.)

NAAOih iiauuy - DohJc Antonio Chavez yesterday con- fessed that he was one of the men | charged with the murderous assault
 on Chris Rasmussen near Middleton
 on the Crown King road Sunday. Ar
 rested at Wickenburg by Marshal
 Davancy, and brought to Prescott by
 officers of this county, Chavez yester-
 day admitted to County Attorney E. J. Mitchell his part in the affair, but
 denied that he had taken any part in
 the actual assault.
 Salazar, his companion-hrst name
 unknown-was painted by Chavez as the ruling spirit, the man who had planned the assault and had executed it, the man who had prevented him, Chavez, from stopping in Prescott on
 their way south to tell what he knew
 of the affair Salazar was not in cus-
 tody yesterday, so far as could be
 learned at this end Sheriff Young is
 between here and Phoenix, looking
 for Salazar, who was thrown from a passenger train at Hillside, according
 to Chavez, who, it appears, rode on into Wickenburg, and was there pick ed up on the strength of the circulars sent out by the Yavapai county shcr- ifs office.
 "Aw, I don't want to work Let's take something off that man," Salazar told Chavez Sunday noon, as they caught up with Rasmussen, who was walking the ties toward Humboldt. Chavez denied that he had assented. Rather, he said, when Salazar crept up behind Rasmussen, he ran back up the track. and after Salazar had knocked Rasmussen down and had rolled him off the track, he had shout cd a warning to Salszar that some men were coming, evidently with the hope that the latter would leave Ras- musscn alone.
 Instead, Salazar buried the suppos- edly dead body. just how, Chavez claimed to be unable to say.
 On Tuesday morning. the two Mex jeans arrived in Prescott. afoot. Chavez caught freight going south. and Salazar rode passenger train. At Skull valley. where the passenger train overlook the freight, both men were cvictcd by the trainmen.
 They met third man, beating his way, and the trio boarded another passenger train late Tuesday night. Salazar was discovered and thrown of at Hillside; the stranger lasted as far as A. & C. Junction. where he, too, met the hard luck of the dis covered hobo. Chavez got into Wick enburg and there left the train. and was later picked up by Davaney. He wore the same clothes, including the rcd sweater, described in the circulars sent by the local office broadcast over the south of the country.
 Chavez is an intelligent appearing fellow. On his arrival here, he at once cvinccd desire to make a clean breast of the case, and whcn qucs- toned by Mitchell through Interpret CT Gales, willingly told his side Of the story. All through the narrative. he maintained that it was Salazar who | had beaten, robbed and buried Ras- 
 Chavez will be taken 10 the Hum boldt hospital this morning, to be | identified by Rasmussen.
 Rasmussen is said to have been much more severely injured than was at first thought His hearing. it is learned, has been almost totally de- stroycd by the effects of the blows, and he can only be communicated with by means of written words.
 Officers arc still hopeful that Sala- gar will be apprchcndcd. They state that the sheriff of this county and deputies from Phoenix arc so closely the routes by which Salazar is likely to try to get to the capital that it will be almost impossible for him to pass !unobservcd.