Valdez daily prospector., 1917-05-21
MOB PRAYS AND
 THEN HANGS MAN

 east of this city, last Thursday night. was taken from deputy sheriffs at o'clock yesterday morning this side of Florence and hanged by a party of Phoenix and Florence citizens.
 The deputies were spiriting Daley, alias Ashmore, from the county jail in this city to the penitentiary. An attempt was made early Satur- day evening to remove Daley from the jail, but it was abandoned by the of ficials, who learned that the road to Florence was being watched at several points. Learning later that crowd was forming here to take him from the jail, the officials soon after mid might removed him quietly and put tfim into an automobile. Hundred 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 it. but later it was hemmed in a short distance this side of Florence. The deputies. protesting but not resist ing, gave up the prisoner. who was taken fourteen miles back on the
 Florence Mesa road and hanged to
 telephone pole.
 On the way from the place of his capture to the scene of his execu- tion. Daley related in sickening de-
 tail the circumstances of the killing of Gibson and subsequent events, cor
 roborating the story or Mrs. Gibson.
 He gave list of crimes committed by him. including three murders. par lticipation in a robbery and a train of minor offenses.
 l 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 a by
 stander how to make. Then he fell into fit of weeping. When all was ready one of the party asked him ! if he wanted to pray. He sank to the
 ground sobbing and his executioners in concert recited the Lords prayer ] Fears Death by Moose Daley asked that his neck might be i to death. After the rope was fastened
 to the telephone pole and adjusted to the neck of Daley. he was elevated
 to the top of an automobile and the machine was driven from under him.
 After his fall physician in the mob said that he still had pulse. but he believed his neck was broken. The automobiles were driven away, leav ing the body hanging to be cut down
 by Pinal county authorities, who ar
 rived after daybreak.
 1 Victims on Auto Tour MT. Gibson and his wife were tray cling by automobile over the Apache trail from Tuscon to Phoenix when Gibson was killed. They made camp
 Thursday night near Mesa. During the night Daley entered their camp, and after visiting q short time shot Gib-
 account given by Mir. Gibson he at tackled her.
 i The next morning, she later told officer who arrested Daley. he com- pelled her to enter the automobile
 with him and start for Phoenix. but Daley finally yielded to her pleading and consented to take Gibson's body to Mesa for burial.
 Tells About Killing Upon their arrival at Mesa, Mrs. Gibson told of the killing of her hus- band and of the indignities to which she had been subjected at the hands Iof her husbands slayer. and Daley was arrested. He was brought to
 Phoenix and lodged in the county
 jail last night.
 Mrs. Gibson's story of her mistreat- ment at Daley's hands after her hus- band had been killed aroused indig- nation, and threats of lynching the prisoner were made, but these did not assume alarming proportions until Saturday.
 The Gibsons lived at Tuscon.
 Daley was a white man. about 24 years of age. and said he was a desert CT from the regular army. He said his relatives live in Oklahoma, where he had lived when a boy. Just before the hanging, Daley asked for a drink of whisky, but there was not a drop of liquor in the crowd.