Weekly journal-miner., 1921-07-06
BOWERS DEATH
 HOMICIDE, |S
 JURY VERDICT

ing returned a verdict of homicide in the shooting of Ed F. Bowers, undersheriff of Yavapai county. The verdict stated that Bowers had come to his death through a bullet wound, inflicted by one Frank George, with homicidal intent.
 Return of the verdict, approved by Judge Charles H. McLane, coroner, followed taking of testimony from a single witness, E. c. Crowe, police inspector of Phoenix, who just be- fore the shooting had accepted a temporary deputyship in Yavapai county during his vacation in this city.
 Speaking slowly and distinctly, as though patient to bring out every detail of the actual occurrence, which still seemed to stun him, Inspector Grove told Of the call received at the sheriff's office Friday afternoon, and of his and Undersheriff Bowers leaving for the death house, soon to be the scene of a grim tragedy.
 Grove had returned, he said, from a visit to a pool hall, where he had picked up and brought back with him two supposed witnesses to the shooting of Foster Roark earlier in the day, and was seated in the sher- iff's office Ed Bowers came in and asked Grove if he had his hand cuffs with him. He didn't; they were in his trunk.
 Will you go with ne on ca1l?" Bowers then asked Grove, at the time the only deputy in the office. A call had been received that man in a house on Weaver street was drunk and shooting off a rifle, threatening the neighborhood. Grove and Bowers left the office together
 After several inquiries, detailed in his testimony by Inspector Grove, they drove up to house which Grove knew as the Creekmttr house, at the west end of Weaver street. Bowers asked a young man to look at the number of the first house on Weaver street, and found that it was in the 400 block. The house they were looking for was 422.
 Going down the street, the two officers came to a white house sur rounded by fence Next door to this was a small red house, set back from the street This was the house they were looking for.
 They tip-toed carefully up the front steps and looked in. They saw a room innocent of any human be- ing, as quiet as the grave Partially screened from this front room, by a pair of portieres or curtains, a rear room could be made out through the screen door.
 There was no sign of any human being in the house," Grove testified
 There was no sound. Suspicious by experience of place of that kind, where there has been trouble, and where there is no evidence of any one around, I knew that the man was either aware of the officers or had made his getaway. Bowers was about to enter. 1 said, Wait. I will go around to the rear of the house. The trouble IS there, I think"
 So Crowe tip-toed around the east side of the house On this side was a long screen room, facing the front and east. Some little distance back was a jog to the west, and at that point was a window opening into mother room.
 "As I got to this window" Grove T was drawing my gun, for trouble ahead. As I ooked through the window screen, saw dimly a chair with a tub on t, and man standing on the other idle of these objects. I instantly ] ealized that this was our man.
 Instantly the man raised long ,un to his shoulder, and fired, at the anne time, in the same motion, to- yard the front of the house ."
 You then ran around to the front f the house in time to see Ed Bow rs?" asked County Attorney John ;. Sullivan.
 q ran around to the front of the ouse," replied Grove, Ito see why O return shots had been fired, to ee what had happened to Ed. I ouldn't see him anywhere in front f the house. I looked west, and i Ivy him laying on his face in the irt When l got to him he was cad. There was breath in his body. 1 lis face was covered with blood" f Crowe rushed up the street to the ( reekmur house to telephone the T leriff's office for assistance He r turned to the house with the r leriff. + Do you know from any state 2 ents that George made," inquired . ounty Attorney Sullivan, "that he f ot Ed Bowers?" f "Yes," was the reply. f, Are you satisfied that he killed 1, l Bowers?" K Yes" 6 The jury then delivered its verdict. F