PEDRO EREDIAS
Arizona Republican Newspaper
June 8, 1905

Jesus Eredias came to Phoenix yesterday morning on an 
unnecessary  mission of vengeance.  He wanted in the first 
place to know what, if anything, had been done with the 
murderer of his brother Pedro Eredias, who was killed in the 
Harqua Hallas about a year ago.  Eredias had just heard of it.  
He is a hunter of lions and other big game and for a year had 
been operating in the southern part of the territory and 
Mexico.  He had been employed on various large cattle ranches 
to keep the lions thinned out.  He had heard nothing of his 
brother, but he did not wonder at that, for much of the time 
he was where letters would hardly reach him; besides, he and 
his brother were not frequent correspondents.

The brother was in the Harqua Halas when he went away and 
Jesus Eredias set out to pay him a visit.  When he reached 
Billy Moore's ranch on the Agua Fria, a woman there told him 
that his brother was dead, had been murdered.  She related 
all the circumstances of the murder but she had not heard that 
the murderer had ever been arrested.  Accordingly he came to 
Phoenix and inquired of the police who referred him to the 
sheriff's office.  Deputy Sheriff King began an inquiry and 
soon found out that Deputy Sheriff Balsz knew all about it.  
The murder occurred in Yuma County and the murderer was soon 
after arrested, convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in 
the territorial prison where he now is.  The killing took 
place over a women.  The brother of Eredias was killed with 
a rock and his body was thrown into a deserted shaft where 
it was soon after found with the skull crushed.