Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Madden, Ed 1905
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Arizona Republican-Feb. 16, 1905
ED MADDEN
February 16, 1905

Governor Brodie yesterday commuted the life term of 
Frank Delaney, a convict at Yuma to twenty five years 
dating from the time of his conviction, August 8, 
1898.  The commutation was granted on an application 
for a pardon which was signed by nearly all the 
prominent citizens in Coconino County and others in 
other parts of the territory.  Nearly all the members 
of the grand jury by which he was indicted signed the 
petition as did the attorneys who took part in his trial.

Delaney was convicted of the murder of Ed Madden, the 
boss of a construction crew on the Santa Fe Pacific.  
The various petitions for the pardon of Delaney leave 
one wondering how the jury could have found him guilty 
of a crime, the punishment for which is so severe, for 
Madden appears to have been a brutal aggressor.

Both he and Delaney had been drinking and Delaney was 
lying asleep in a car when Madden entered and 
kicked him into wakefulmess and otherwise assaulted 
him, cutting a gash in his face.  He moreover called 
him insulting names.  When Delaney was fully roused from 
his sleep he went after a gun and returning shot and 
killed Madden.  If he had had the gun at the time of 
the assault and had used it with the same deadly 
effect, perhaps not much would have been done 
about the affair but the jury believed that on 
account of his having had time to go after the 
wapon a certain degree of premeditation was 
permitted to enter into the case.  

One of the attorneys that it was doubtful if there was any 
premeditation at all, but the petitioners agreed 
that the prisoner had been fully punished for 
whatever crime he may have committed.

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