The Parker post., 1917-05-12
STARR DALEY
PAYS PENALTY
WITHOUT FUSS OR FIGHT MUIR
DERER AND ASSAULTER IS
TAKEN FROM OFFICERS AND
PUT TO DEATH.

PHOENIX, May 7.-Within a few
feet of where he committed a double
tragedy last Thursday night, Starr
Daley, who said his real name is
Vain Ashmore, was meted out the
punishment that more than fifty
determined citizens of MaricOpa and
Pinal counties, backed by an almost
unanimous sanction of the thou
sands of other citizens, believed was
justifiable. At 4:3O O'Clock Sunday
| morning his limp body swung from
the cross-arm of a telephone pole.
He made full confession of his
crime
Daley was taken out of the Phoe-
nix Jail Saturday and whisked away
in an auto to the Florence peniten-
tiary. A posse of citizens held up
the officers car near the Florence
bridge, and captured the murderer
Il want to make a statement and
| then you may do as you like with
me-" he said huskily, as he stepped
from the machine.
Daley blamed his mother for what
| he was. He said she ran a brothel
when he was young and sent him
out to seduce young girls and entice
them to her place. In explaining
| his reason for shooting Gibson, Daley
| said that he thought he was killing
the man who had ruined his sister
Il am guilty as hell, and you can
hang me or whatever you want to
do" he said.
He promised to show them the ex-
act spot where he had committed
| the double crime Thursday night
and was placed in a machine. The
sheriff's car was ordered to return
| to Phoenix. On the way to the scene
of the crime Daley talked freely of
his past life, his parents, and the re-
cent crime he had committed. Ac-
cording to his own statement he has
lived life of crime since boyhood.
Il aided in more than one bank
robbery and holdup," Daley contin-
ued. Il was sent to the reformatory
after one hold-up but learned more
meanness than I did good I was
born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. |
came west two years ago and enlisted
in the army. A few months ago |
was dishonorably discharged /
then went to work in California near
Oakland. While there | pulled a
couple of hold-ups and was compell-
ed to shoot one man.
When they reached the scene of
Thursday nights crime, which was
to be the place of execution, the
doomed man was asked if he wanted
to say his prayers. He knelt on the
ground and the party recited the
Lords prayer
A rope was thrown over the cross
bars OF a telephone pole and hang
mans knot tied at the end. Daley
was placed upon the machine, the
moose adjusted and the auto moved
away. In a few minutes the man
was dead and the crowd dispersed,
leaving the body hanging
The crowd was orderly throughout
Irff
was drunk and every one left the
scene of the hanging as soon as a
physician announced that the man
was dead. They returned to PhOe-
nix by different roads and no trace
of their identity was left behind.
A cOrOners jury at Florence
promptly returned a verdict of justi-
fable homicide, parties unknown.
The crime for which Daley was
executed occurred Thursday night,
when Ashmore, or Daley, approached
peaceable camp occupied by man
and his wife. They were persons of
respectability in pursuit of their own
affairs, and giving offense to no one.
In the night time, and to make GER
tain the success of his obvious in
tentiOn to attack the woman, Daley
shot the husband six times in the
back, when the latter was not look
ing and without giving him the
slightest opportunity to defend him
self After the man was dead the
murderer continued to pour bullets
into the quivering flesh just ''to
make sure" Then by the side of
her murdered husband the assassin
for hours compelled the woman to
undergo the most hideous ordeal,
giving vent to every whim his de-