RAMON REYES
Arizona Republican, February 12, 1903

Ramon Reyes, a Mexican not much more than of age, was 
brutally murdered some time Sunday might in one of the 
small shacks near the Beer Garden, says the Bisbee Review.  
The officers are now searching for Miguel Barba and Manuel 
Quives, one of whom is supposedly to be guilty of the murder 
of Reyes.

All day yesterday the search for these two men was made by 
the officers and several Mexicans who were deputized to aid 
in the search.  At a late hour it was supposed that the man 
wanted was in hiding either on Chihuahua hill or in an old 
shaft in Dubacher Canyon.

The murder of Reyes is one of the most gruesome that has 
ever taken place in this vicinity.  His head was beaten 
almost beyond recognition and an ugly wound made in the 
right side of his neck.  Any one of the several wounds 
would have proved fatal.

When Marshal Henderson visited the house he found Reyes 
lying on the bed partially covered with a quilt.  Nearby 
was an ax, from which the blade had been broken and a 
revolver of small caliber.  The ax was covered with blood 
indicating that it had been used in the murder of the 
dead man.

The officers and others who have followed the developments 
in the case are inclined to lay the crime at the door of 
Miguel Quives.  Up to eight days before the murder he was 
living on intimate terms with a woman in whose house the 
killing was done.