Arizona republican., 1920-06-08

The attack on Mir Erhardt is be- Heved to have been made while he was asleep. He did not regain conscious ness and died without being able to give any clue as to the murderous as- sailants.
 A more complete job of ransacking a house has never been witnessed by local officers, they state. The doors Of q walnut desk were pried off with screw driver, beds in all the rooms were turned upside down, clothing torn down in the closets, pictures moved on the walls. and every nook and cranny on the place was thor oughly searched by the murderers in search of money.
 Until Albert Erhar1t arrives it will be impossible to determine the amount Of things taken by the murderers. II anything. It is not thought by George Erhardt that his mother had more than $2O in the house at the time.
 Neighbors living near the Erhardt house stated yesterday morning that they had heard noises early in the evening but had paid no attention to them. No one noticed anything un- usual about the Erhardt residence.
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 A blanket and the clothing which Mrs Erhardt had taken off the night before are thought to have been used, after the blows were struck, to muffle  during the ransacking of the house.
 After the murderers had finished searching the house, 1t is thought that they unlocked the back screen door and left by that means. The hammer was thrown away in the front of the house and the water in the irrigation ditch near the house will he emptied today in an effort to locate the lathing hammer. Following the departure of the murderers, Mrs. Erhardt revived sufficiently to crawl from the kitchen to the bed where her husband was lying. From the pool of blood in the kitchen to the bed in the porch are the prints of Mrs. Erhardt's feet and hands as sh struggled to- reach the bed. Mrs. Erhardt had two sears on each side of the head, a large bruised place on the shoulder and many minor scratches and bruises on the arms MT Erhardt suffered four compound fractures of the skull and his head and face are covered with cuts and bruises.
 Family We'll Known
 An inquest will be held today by the coroners jury which was selected yes terday morning.
 Mir and Mrs. Erhardt came to Phoe- nix 13 years ago for the health of their daughter, Louise, who died shortly after their. arrival here at the age of 26 years. Mir. Erhardt was 64 years
  are survived by Jacob Erhardt, IT, aged S6 years at Central fire house, George Erhardt, aged 29, deputy state trea surer. and Albert Erhardt. aged 27 years. who is the engineer in charge of the Lyman Dam project.
 Jacob Erhardt, Jrs the eldest son, is the owner of a large white bull dog and only recently he pleaded with his father to keep the bull dog at their home for protection should a prowler ,I T7rT,n ee45A no, that the dog might disturb the neighbors and refused to permit his son to bring the dog to the home.
 No murder to equal this in cold bloodedness has been recorded in this vicinity since that of the spring of 1917 when John Daily overlook a man and wife in @ motor car on the Flor ence road. murdered the man and at tackled the wife. Daly was captured and was taken from the. county jail by a mob and hanged on a telephone pole near the division line of Maricopa and Pinal counties on the Florence road.