Tombstone epitaph., 1918-11-24
LIFE SENTENCE
 FOR THE KILLING OF
 CHARLES x. TYSON

sentence passed q the state peniten- tiary at Florence. Willis Woods must pay for the crime committed on No vember .. when he shot and killed Charles II. Lyshon.
 Judge Stanford sentenced the mur- derer at l:30 o'clock yesterday after noon after the defendant declared he had nothing to say.
 He entered the cour; room with Deputy Sheriff Charles Nafzige- and calmly lighted cigarette and started 70 smoke until his attention was call ed to the fact that he was in the court room. He then tossed the cigarette careIessly 10 enc side and calmly faced the cour. and without a change os expression heard the life sentence imosed.
 Woods was arraigned earlier in the day and advised if his legal rights. He said that he would not employ an at :orney as he intended 10 r,ead guilty to the crime for which he was charg- ed Again in the afternoon he de clared tha. he did not wish cou1sel, although Robert Jsrrott. assistant county attorney. stated that there was nc reason .c- !eniency and asked the ex-re;le penalty which the court could Impose.
 In reply 10 the question asked by Judge Stanford. Woods stated that he was 55 years q age and tha, he ha! Ived practically all h:s fife in Ari- zona and was a Texan by birth. lie said he had TO education 10 speak of, and at aa early age wen, into the ca,- t,e business His relatives lived in Globe. he said. and tha; he had a nephew on farm somewhere in Mari copa county.
 Woods nad his first trouble with the authorities when as a boy of r he was arrested in Navajo county over cattle difficulties. He was sentenced to prison for five years, but secured 2 rev trial and was acquitted. Later he had trouble over horses" in Ccchise county and was sent 10 the state pris on for a year. securing a pardon a; the end Of his first six months
 After reviewing his prison record Woods casually mentioned the murde! for which he had just pleaded guilty lie exonersted Leonard Thompson the 1syear-o!d hoy. whose story oi the crime caused Woods arres: in Nevada
 The boy mad nothing to do with i.," said Woods. T had trouble with Lyshon all along the way and was SC enraged 8, the man l did not know what I was doing. I had been drink ,ng. too"
 This was the only reference made Of the cold blooded murder commit ted in the Black mountains early ir the morning just 9 week ago. Wood: later came 10 Phoenix and in Tempe disposed of ;he automobile in which Lyshon, Thompson and himself made the trip across country.
 More is remembered of Woods from day 10 day and everything re memberea is to his discredit. Ate, the Fairbanks train robbery several years ago he was suspected of having had a part in it and he was arrested lOll \ Icl4A.- sliAt tici an agent O. the treasury department
 4 few years after that. when Mir Crouia happened to be al W;eken5aTs on the eve of the Parker lot sale where it was expected that a large sum Of money would be received by the government, he saw Woods get of a north bound train in company with another man. Mir Cronin sup posed that he was going 10 Parker and he notified the authorities here as well as the United States marshal Of his presence. A large force of of fcers was hurried there to guard the governments bank roll.