JOE RICHARDS
August 19, 1897
Arizona Republican Newspaper

The examination of Walter Hoffman this afternoon for killing 
Joe Richards, another cowboy at the Burke place, as already 
published in the Prospector, was heard before Justice Duncan 
at the hour set.  G.W. Swain represented Hoffman while the 
prosecution in the absence of District Attorney English was 
conducted by W.C. Staehle and S.A. D Upton.  There were twenty 
one witnesses and the evidenced adjuced went to show clearly 
that it was a case of justifible homicide.  Several witnesses 
testified to seeing deceased pull his gun and in words not 
to be found in the Bible informed Hoffman that his end had 
come but in the twinkle of an eye and before he could carry 
his threat into effect he himself was a corpse.  The verdict 
of the coroner's jury was also produced which exonerated Hoffman 
on the grounds of justifiable homicide.


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