Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-05-07
Alleged DeSerter From Army,
Who Murdered Travelling
Salesman and Assaulted
Victims Wife, Is Lynched,
DEPUTY SHERIFFS NOT
ABLE TO SAVE PRISONER
When Attempt Is Made to
Spirit Star Daley From
Phoenix to Penitentiay,
100 Autos Start in Pursuit.
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Phoenix. ArlZ, May 6.--Star Daley,
who killed James Ray Gibson, trav-
cling salesman, near Mesa, eighteen
miles east of this city, last Thursday
night, was taken from deputy sherlffs
at 4 o'clock this morning this side of
Florence ana hanged by 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 sew
eral points. Learning later that a
crowd was forming here to take him
from the Jail, the officials soon after
midnight removed him quietly and
put him into automobile.
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
it, but later it was hemmed in short
distance this side of Florence. The
deputies, protesting but not resisting.
| gave up the prisoner, who was taken
fifteen miles back on the Florence
Mesa road and hanged to telephone
pole.
Daley was lynched for the murder
of Gibson and for the indignities to
which ne subjected the wtfe of mis-
victim afterward
A telegram from Florence states
that coroner's jury on the body
found that Daley was the victim Of
justifiable homicide committed by
persons unknown to the jury"
Daley Confesses 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 events, corroborat-
ing the story of Mrs. Gibson. He gave
list of crimes committed by him.
including three murders. participation
in train robbery and a train of minor
offenses. While waiting in Jail here
in expectation 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
bystander how to make. Then he fell
into a 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
Asks That Neck Might Be Broken.
Daley asked that his neck might be
broken and that he be not strangled
to death. After the rope was fas-
tened to the telephone pole and ad-
justed to the neck OF Daley, he was
elevated to the top of an automobile
and the machine was driven from un-
der him. After his fall. physician
in the crowd said that he still had a
pulse, but he believed his neck was
broken. The automobiles were driven
away, leaving the body hanging to be
cut down by Pinal county authorities
who arrived after daybreak.
Governor Campbell, learning some
time after the removal of Daley from
the county Jail that a lynching was
intended, hurried to Florence but did
not arrive there until o'clock. In
reply to an inquiry OF the governor to-
night as to what action he will take
regarding the lynching, he stated that
he would not issue statement before
| tomorrow.
Story Of the Crime.
Mr. Gibson and his wife were trav-
| cling by automobile over the Apache
trail from Tucson to Phoenix when
Gibson was killed. They made camp
Thursday night near Mesa. During
the night Daley entered their camp
and after visiting a short time shot
! Gibson to death. Then, according to
the account given by Mrs. Gibson, he
attacked her.
The next morning she told officers
who arrested Daley he compelled her
to enter the automobile with him and
start for Phoenix but Daley finally
yielded to her pleading and consented
to take Gbsons body to Mesa for
burial.
Upon their arrival at Mesa Mrs. Glib
son told of the killing of her husband
and of the indignities to which she
had been subjected at the hands OF
her husbands slayer. and Daley was
arrested. He was brought to Phoenix
and lodged in the county Jail Thurs
day night.
Threats OF Lynching.
| Mrs Gibson's story of her mietreat.
ment at Daley's hands after her hus-
band had been killed aroused great
indignation and threats OF lynching
the prisoner We're made but these did
not assume alarming proportions un-
| til Saturday.
| Daley was an American about 30