Show R OF MRS FIFE addition iel ILL 1 laim alm aim ol OF wo we had bad the pleasure yesterday of me tin brother W N X ylie elfe formerly of osden but now and for tor several years pas past t a resident of cochise county southeastern south eastern arizona ile he is the father of var nar W fife city marshal of I 1 ogden U den which ollice he held himself before moving south and the husband of sister ilfe elfe who was so cru cruelly murdered at oak grove ranche kanche by a mex lean named francisco I 1 on the lith of of last se september P our I 1 informant brother fife was away from home when the terrible event took place havin having gone to tombstone Tombs tonti to send some money to members ot of his llis who were relatives la in ogden and were shortly expected to return durin darin during darlng his absence the murderer a discharged soldier from the mexican army and one of the lowest kind of prowlers came to the ranch and asked for fora a melon meion it was given ulven him and he ate it ue he then turned to mrs airs ilfe elfe who was I 1 in n the room alone with him and said look I 1 I 1 I 1 directing her attention away from him quick as thought the treacherous fiend then pulled a pistol and shot her in the side and she fell to tnt the floor mortally wounded ills object was evidently robbery the report ort of the pistol brought mrs fifes cifes laughter daughter daughten from another room and on seeing her the murderer leveled his pistol and snapped it twice at her but it would not go 0 off the next instant hp was baug caught t in the iron lutch clutch c of a mexican aiex diex ican named manu Mauu wela a hired hand about the place who had bad heard beard the shot and rushed in from the garden to learn its cause francisco on seeing him shot at the the hall ball just garaging gracing his side in another moment the ie murderous ingrate was struggling indis in his viselike vise like grasp him over the head pummeled him with the butt end of Us h is pi would doubtless have killed him had he be not managed to elude his bis clutches and escaped A shot from the faithful mans pistol sped after him as he vanished but did not take effect mrs fife though mortally wounded was perfectly conscious to the last and enough bleeding inter internally nall nali called suffered little c ur no pain she called for water repeatedly to drink asked to be helped into the other room and lived two hours afterwards she was able tu to tell where the bullet hit her and gave kave ave directions to lier her daughter lowthe how the news shoula should be broken to her husband on his return her last words were we shall all meet in a better world returning was told by his son of what had taken place before he reached the house his horror and astonishment can only be realized uy imagination or oue who has passed through a similar experience two hours later he heard that the murderer had been captured and he and his folks were sent for to como come and identify him As soon as the fatal event was known had taken dispatches written by miss fife to all the surrounding telegraph offices and the 1 I whole country vas ua s spee speedily illy inand acquainted quain ted with what had occurred i everybody lent lelit a helping hand mr white a non mornion neighbor of brother Fife rf offered yoo SOO out of his i own pocket as a reward forthe capture of the mur murderer lerer leren men and boys were in in lne saddle addle from twenty miles around the result was nis tits apprehension un on being confronted by the family of the lady he be had so 0 o brutally assassinated francisco became surly and would not speak a word ills captors captor 8 none noue of whom were mormons cormons Mor mons ask asked ed brother fife it if ile be was satisfied this was the man the answer being bedink given in the affirmative by those who reco recognized him the leader sald baid Tb ats all ril we want to know 11 1 11 hey hoy then took the mexican some soine miles away and strung him hini up to a tree twenty feet from the ground and after he be was dead dragged the corpse to an out of the and buried it brother drother fife and his bis folks returned r identifying the murderer the had him m iu in custody seeing seeming bap bent on n making makim him expiate r ryta r 4 ii f s his hig crime with his life forthwith our eur informant and his family it appears are aro very much respected in cochise county count t and have made many friends there during their residence d |