Arizona republican., 1921-03-12
RANCHER |S SHOT
 WHILE SLEEPING IN BED AT HOME
No Clue Has Been Found To Slayer Of J. M. Dunn Whose Body Was Found Thursday Evening-Wife Frustrated

An autopsy performed yesterday by Dr. s. D. Little upon the body of J. M. Dunn, rancher. who was found dead in a bed in the front room of their home, one half mile north of Acre City, Thursday night about 80 o'clock by his wife and children, disclosed the fact that MT Dunn had been shot three l times in the head with a 28-caliber revolver and not killed by blows from sharp instrument, as first thought. l The coroner's jery at the inquest held yesterday afternoon by Coroner Henry J. Sullivan returned a verdict that ldeath resulted from gunshot wounds inflicted by a person or persons un- known to them.
 As yet the officers, although working upon the case all day yesterday, have no definite clues as to the identity of the murderer or the motives for the crime They are inclined to believe that revenge was the incentive for the murder, but investigation along this line so far has failed to substantiate } this conclusion. Neighbors say they knew of no trouble Dunn had with any one.
 Robbery. it is thought, might have been the motive for the crime. Frank Bates. groceryman at the corner of
 Mcdowell and Orange roads, said he had paid Dunn more than S400 in cur rency on Monday. Yesterday in searching the place officers and citi- i, zens found s430 in currency buried in the dirt floor of an adobe shack back
 of the house. The money had been placed in a fruit jar which was placed , in a hole dug in the floor. A board
 covered the hole and loose dirt had
 been placed over the board. pair
 of MT. Dunn's shoes were standing or
 top of the hole. If robbery was the . motive for the crime the officers say the murderer must have known of this a money. but was scared away by the ap- proach of the family before he could make the search.
 ], | Three Shots Fired
 At the inquest held yesterday. Dr z Little told of the autopsy which dis
 closed the bullet holes in the skull
 Three shc.s had been fired, he said
 from a 3S-caliber gun in which shor
 soft-nosed shells were used One O. ! the bullets entered the left side of tn top of the head, he said. and passed tentireIy through the brain and througl y the neck into the body.
 Another bullet, Dr. Little said. en u tered the right side of the top of tn s. head and lodged just above the righ = eye in the right lobe of the brain $ Fragments of this bullet were re l. moved, he said. The third bulle
 struck the center of the top of the hea
 and passed about three inches unde
 the scalp toward the front of the heac coming out just above the hair line O I, the forehead. This bullet. officers sai Il yesterday, was found imbedded in tn 3 door in the house leading to the din l. ing room of the home. Dr. Little sai l. he was of the opinion that the frs
 shot fired entered the left side of tn e. head and killed Mir. Dunn almost In 70 stantly.
 n Al Murr and S. V. Pybast told C g hearing Mrs. Dunn when he came y the store at MeDoweIl road say sh 10 though ther husband was dead The is said they went to the home and foun
 Dunn lying on the bed. At first, the ss said, they thought he had tainted. bt n few minutes later they discovered th s. blood and saw the wounds. N :. fsel "a sor said Mrs. Dunn had been at hi
 home about o'clock negitiating wit
 ihim about the purchase of his cow.
 few minutes after she left with ht
 three children to go home. she rt
 turned he said. in a hysterical cond
 ton, saying her husband was dead
 Mother and Son Return V Virgil Dunn. 1S-year-old son Dunn said he left home about
 o'clock just after his mother and il
 three children had left for Retsor
 place. His father, he said. was si + ting on the edge of the bed on whic re he was found He said he went on a 'O errand for his father and came hon ,,. just ahead of his mother. When Y entered the front room. he said.
 saw his father lying on the bed ar ,S. spoke to him. He did not answer. a said.
 He went outside and would not l.
 his mother go in the house. Sf f. looked through the window, he sai ,e and saw his father and then they re
 turned to the store for help. II
 father, he said, had been sick for tw
 or three days with a fever. 1oun la Dunn said he knew nothing of tt te. money his father had and knew of T