Jenny Bauters
Arizona Republican Newspaper
September 7, 1905

News comes from Kingman of the second awful tragedy to be 
enacted in that vicinity within a few days.  Jennie Bauter, 
a woman well known in northern Arizona, was shot four times 
and instantly killed by a man named Leigh who was posing as 
her husband.  The shots were al lwell arimed and any one of 
them night have proved fatal.   Leigh then turned the gun 
on himself and fired once, the bullet penetrating his lungs 
and it is supposed fatally injuring.

It is said the woman was employed in a saloon probably as a 
singer or to encourage the selling of drinks.  Leigh had 
approached her and asked for money which she declined to 
advance to him and they quarreled for sometime when he 
became desperate and began shooting.

His victim lived in Jerome previous to a couple of years ago 
and owned considerable property there when she was killed.


November 2, 1905

There was received at the Governor's office yesterday, 
a transcript of the court proceedings in Mohave County 
in which C.C. Leigh was convicted of murder in the first 
degree and sentenced to be hanged on December 8 of this 
year.  There was no other offering but it is supposed the 
document was intended for perusal by the governor, pending 
an application for a commutation of the sentence.  This 
supposition is based on an article in a Prescott paper 
which states that Mrs. D.B. Leigh and Mrs. E.H. Stephens 
of Visila, California, mother and aunt, respectively of 
the condemned man are now in Prescott, preliminary to making 
an application for commutation of sentence. Their visit there 
was to confer with Leroy Anderson, the attorney who defended 
Leigh in his trial for murder.

The crime was a brutal one, but the friends of the murderer 
believe there was some measure of justification, or rather 
that there were some mitigating circumstances by reason of 
which they think the sentence was too severe and that the 
ends of justice might be satisfied with a lesser penalty 
than expiation in the gallows.  

The victim was Jennie Bauters who had lived in Jerome for 
several years and was a person of notorious character.  
Leigh had lived with her for some time in Jerome and later 
at Acme Camp near Gold Road in Mohave County where the 
killing took place.  It was alleged that on the morning 
of the shooting, September 3 of this year, they had 
quarreled over money matters and that Leigh had shot the 
woman down and that while she lay, probably mortally 
wounded on the ground, he reloaded his weapon and standing 
over her fired again killing her instantly.  He then 
turned the weapon on himself and sent a bullet into his 
left breast but the wound did not prove a serious one.

Leigh's story differs somewhat in respect of the most 
brutal details though there is a frank admission of the 
murder.  He says he was passing a tent in which the woman 
lived (there being nothing but tent houses in the camp) 
when she called to him to give her a cigarette.  He did 
so and entering the tent they began quarreling about 
another man with whom the woman desired to live in 
preference to Leigh.  The end of it was that she called 
him a vile name and started to run away saying she was 
going after a gun to kill him.  Instantly he became 
uncontrollably angered and shot her. He does not know 
for sure how many times he shot her but he says he was 
at least fifteen feet away when the last shot was fired.  
He then shot himself partly because he thought he had 
got into serious trouble by killing her and partly 
because he did not care to live after she was dead and 
so decided he would made a good job of it.