| Show Inv BLOODY FINISH W W TW OF EIGHT YEAR FEUD FEUL Canal Superintendent Killed b by His Former Wife's Husband TRIED BLUFF WITHOUT GUN GUM Career of Charles Williams limBs Who imo 10 Es Es- Order on Canal b by Licking Water U rs Phoenix Ai Ariz ir June 10 The Th The recent re rc- cent shooting of Charles B n B. B Williams I superintendent of the Buckeye canal by E. E E. E Weiler near Mesa was the culminating Incident In a feud of eight years years' standing It I had been predicted that one of ot them thorn would some somo time bo be killed bythe bythe by hy hythe the other hut hilt the time predictions had general generally centered upon Weller as ns tho victim The feud had originated over o er the former formel wife of Williams who was wa married about five years ears ago by Wel- Wel ler The Time men had imad had several veral previous hostile hoste meetings Williams Invariably In being the time aggressor as he lie was wm In iii their lost last t coming together There is Ia coring a difference difference dif dif- ference of opinion as to time the necessity of time the thC killing 1 The Time only witness wines of time the affair was William Hola the time year old nephew of or Williams who was driving him to the time homo home of his mother Mrs E. E B. B Kearley when they met Veller Wel Wel- ler who hall had jm just t left leC his homo nearby nearby near near- by ly and was on his way to Globe From Flom statements made at nt tho limo Inquest which was held hell by Acting Coroner Coronel Standage It appears that when the they met the they greeted each other uther sarcastically and Williams sa saying to the tho boy that he lie had something to settle sette with Weller dropped out of the buggy hugg The Time boy DO was frightened and drove dro c on He had rot got ot only a short distance when he heard a u shot shot He lie le looked cd back lack and anda saw a his uncle falling to tHe te round ground Ver who had hal then left lef his wagon approached him him and fre fired another shot The first shot took effect In irm the back hack part hart of the time right hip and the second In the time back Fired Two Two Shot Weller Veer said that when the they timey met Williams got out of the time hugg buggy and at aL him He lie le had imad ha his shotgun In n mm the time wagon ogon and amid picking It up ho lie threw brew a cartridge Into It I and fired H lie Ic put In iii another cartridge before lefore icing the time second shot The supposition Is that Williams Intended In- In tended to give gI e Weller eJer a scare as he hc mad lad done hone before lefore and amid that when he hea aw saw the g gun gnu n he turned to run But It was vas then timen too loo late The time to on end he the feud had Imad come After the tho killing Weller went to Mesa lesa and surrendered himself and old told the tho story of the time tragedy He lie le said then hen and afterward tl said at the In- In quest that he did not fire fre until lip lio v n m Mr for tor his Imis Iun gun glum there thereas as was no gun found eulie on eu tHo lie lio leal dent man maim or In the time vicinity The rime coroners Jury merely tou found t hat that Williams had come to his death deathy by my y two gunshot wounds Inflicted by Veler was turned over to Constable Burton to be held for for his n examination Public sen sen- in iii time the th neighborhood of Mesa es is In his Imis favor It I Is based largely large on his record as a peace-loving peace citizen Ills HIs wife wiCe left lef for Texas about a month ago to be le gone gone for Cor or the tho summer visiting visiting visit visit- ing relatives Weller Is about 35 years of age and amid has been a resident of the valley valey for form m many n years ears He lie le owns a ranch near Mesa and amid for a long long time was ena engaged en- en a e In the dairy business More re recently re- re centy ho lie has been engaged In lim the business of soliciting orders for en enlarged en- en pictures pictures Picturesque Character Williams was about 15 46 years of age and anti was wa one the time picturesque characters characters characters char char- of or this community He leaves lea es several children the time eldest a bo boy of 15 or 01 16 Williams was married In Texas and came here about fourteen years ago He lIe was abnormally aggressive ag ag- Ies iv and Id has had more P personal r onal encounters than thamm any man who ever lived in this part of the time country count lie JIo le H Hought Ho lie light fight was always ready for or a Ight ought fought for himself and for fOl his friends who aho ho say ay that there was never a mote more loyal loal one or 01 a more mole companionable be companion companion- man when he lie chose to e Ihle ohio oble But Dut most of or the time stories told about a out him bun relate to tho time violence of his Ills tem tern per jer He lIe is credited with having established the orderly system which prevails pre als to this day among the water users of oC the time Tempo Tempe canal canol where such sucha a u thing as a water dispute among neighbors JI is never ner n er heard of oC made Several years yea yea- ago ago he was of or the canal canal There here had been the u usual ual overreaching among amon tIme the water u users ers the time usual leaks leak in head head- gates sates and arid tho the usual water stock feature lea fea ea- ea ture which is the time cause of or so much trouble i Fist t Fighter Williams e established a schedule In Informed In- In formed Conned every evemy user miser when tho time water would bo lie Jl placed ced at his disposal and nd I when It would quit running running for cor him Before ho 11 hall had fully got his imis system to running ii a hitch It I is said ld that he had licked most of the prominent citizens served tId by bv the cna canal It I was regarded by b him as as part of or his hl duties dutes to find out each ench day if IC there lucre was not some one who ought to be bo licked If it I he lie found Cound water running into a gate where hero It I ought not to run he ime followed It up UI until h he lie found fould the user ln Ia Having admonished him with wih closed the time his lists he ime returned and gate gat Now and then though It is said that h happened only once or twice he lie found a patron of the tho canal canol to whom this R system stem of discipline could not be administered In such cases he lie In Invoked Invoked In- In yoked the tho aid of the time courts Justice of Tempe precinct undertook to break hrak him of ot fighting within his hh jurisdiction and succeeded One day dav ho was mias brought In III for COI whipping whipping whip whip- ping plug a 0 Mexican The Time judge fined him G r 1 anti and told him that lint the time next timo It IL would he ho 10 JIO A few days later there was vas another fight ficht O ht and time the promised flue fine was administered with th time thy further promise that It would be doubled the thc next line It I was done olne of or lOO was Impo Imposed Im Im- until one day olay da a L lIne fine 00 po posed ed and paid There was no more moro f fighting by Williams within Justice ly Spafford's term ovum of That 00 lOO flume fine b by the time way was Imposed In Imi the time unusual case of oC Williams getting licked 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