El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-07
.AR|zONANS HANG
8 SLAYER
Take Prisoner From Sher-
ifs Deputies and Hang
Him at Scene of Crime.


-Arizonans have avenged the death OF
James Ray Gibson and the attacking
Of Mrs. Gibson by lynching to tele-
phone pole at the scene OF the double
crime. IS miles east Of this city, Star
DAILY, alias Van Ashemore.
Daily, whose right name IS said to
be Ashmore, was being taken to the
penitentiary at Florence by deputy
sheriffs sam Barrett and Ben Mus
grave. when he was taken from the
officers Sunday by the vigilantes.
composed. it is said Of Pnoenix and
Florence msn.
He was carried to the spot where
Gibson. a travelling salesman frou
Tucson, and his wife, had camped
Thursday night while making an
automobile trip over the Apache trail
and where lie had killed Gibson and
forced Mrs Gibson TO accompany him
away from the spot, after forcing he-
to spend the night with him
Crowd Says the Lords Prayer.
With the rope around his neck,
Daley was asked If he wished to say
d prayer. While he sank to his knees,
the men composing the mob recited
the Lords prayer in unison. The
lynching then proceeded.
An attempt was made early Satur-
day evening to remove Daley or Ash
more from the Phoenix Jail. but il
was abandoned by the officials who
learned that the road to Florence was
beig watched at several points Learn
ing later that = crowd was forming
here to take him from the jail, the
officials soon after midnight removed
him quietly and put him into an auto
mobile.
100 Autos In Chase.
The chase was begun within five
minutes and 100 automobiles were
soon tearing after the deputies car.
They lost it on the desert and passed
il but later il was hemmed in 4 short
distance this side Of Florence. The
deputies, protesting but not resisting,
gave up the prisoner who was taken
IS miles back on the Florence Mesa
road and hanged to telephone pole
A telegram from Florence states
that = cOrOner's jury on the body
found that Daley was the victim Of
Unsuitable homicide committed by
persons unknown to the jury"
Tells Story of Crime.
On the way from the place OF his
capture to the scene of his execution
Daley related in sickening detail the
circumstances OF the murder OF Glib
son and subsequent evidence, corrobo-
rating the story of Mrs. Gibson. He
gave a list of crimes committed by
patton IN a train robbery and a train
Of minor offences.
he stated he was q stepson OF Red
Melvin, noted Oklahoma bank robber
and that he had assisted at the rob
berry of q bank at Glencoe, Okla, in
which he stated he thought he killed
a man He was with Melvin at sew
eral other bank robberies, including
one at Independence, Kan, Bartles-
vile, Okla, and several points in
Missouri
Admits Many Grimes.
He said he had held up a man in
Oakland, Calf, and was forced to
shoot HIM. though he did not believe
he killed him he calmly related most
revolving crimes in relation to women.
While waiting in jail here, in ex-
pectation Of an assault. he had wept
and begged the sheriff to save him
but after his capture he was calm
until just before the adjustment Of
the moose, which he had shown 4 by
stander how to make. Then he fell
into fit of weeping.
Body Is Lett Hanging.
Daley asked that his neck might
be broken and that he be not
strangled 10 death After the rope
was Iastened TO the telephone pole
and adjusted to the prisoners neck,
he was eIevated to the top of an au-
from under him The automobiles
were driven away, leaving the body
hanging.
Daley was an American about a
years Of age and claimed TO have been
a deserter from the regular army.
Asked Tor whisky, y one In Crowd.
Just before the hanging Daley
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bracer. There was not = bottle in
the crowd
Deputy sheriffs Sam Barrett and
Ben Musgrave, from whom Daley was
taken by the vigilantes, would make
no statement for publication beyond
that embodied in their report to sher-
if Wiiky. To Wilky they reported
that they had exerLed their best ef-
forts to deliver their prisoner TO the
Pinal authorities.
Men had Faces Hidden.
They said that each OF those who
calieu upon them TO throw up their
hands wore handkerchief5 over their
faces. making recognition impossible.
Story OF the Crime.
Gibson and his wife were travelling
by automobile from Tucson TO PHOENIX
when GIBSON WAS killed. They made
camp thursday night near Mesa Dur
ing the night daley entered their
camp and aICer visiting q short time
shot Gibson 10 deaIn. Then, accord
ing to me account given by AIRS. GiD-
son, ne attacked her.
The next morning he compelled her
to enter the automobile with Nun and
start for Phoenix, but Daley finally
yielded to her pleading and conssnted
10 take Gibson's body to Mesa for
burial
Upon their arrival at Mesa, Mrs
Gibson told of the killing Of her hus-
band and Of the inuignities TO which
she had been subjected at the hands
of her husbands slayer, and Daley
was arrested and taken to Phoenix.