Miguel Perez
November 18, 1904
Arizona Republican Newspaper

About 5 o'clock Wednesday morning Tomas Gota, a rancher 
who lives at Tubac, some fifty miles south of Tucson 
started to leave that city to go home says the Citizen.  
When noticing clots of blood on the south Meyer street 
pavement he took the very easily discernible trail and 
was horrified to find the body of a Yaqui Indian on that 
thoroughfare between Seventeenth and Eighteenth about a 
block from where he began to follow the crimson spots.  
The body was already cold in death, was that of Miguel Perez 
and a hasty examination  disclosed  the wound in the right 
side of the neck where the assassin's knife had entered, 
severing the carotid artery and jugular vein.  Gota hurried 
to police headquarters and reported the matter to jailer 
Birkenfield, who took him over to the sheriff's office and 
apprised the deputy on duty there who telephoned the 
circumstances to Manuel Drachman.  An hour of so later 
Constable Nabor Pacheco arrested five Yaquis near the 
scene who were all drunk.  Whether the murderer is among 
them remains to be seen as they were too much intoxicated 
to talk much.

Coroner Culver impaneled a jury at 10:30 this morning, 
who after viewing the body adjourned to 1 p.m. tomorrow 
by which time the necessary witnesses will probably have 
been dug up.

The dead man is a wood cutter by occupation, about 24 years 
old, born in Mexico and had been working near the San 
Xavier mission.  He had come to town last night, according 
to his brother's statement, with considerable money on 
his person, something like $100.  It was understood that 
no money was found in his clothes when he was removed to 
Undertaker Reilly's establishment and it is fair to 
assume that robbery was the object of the murderer 
although this does not necessarily follow as someone 
else might afterward have taken the money.