According to a ADC press release dated 9 May 2013, Karl died of natural causes. He was serving a life sentence for the murder or University of Arizona student Rickel Hanson and assault on Patricia Cosby with murderous intent that occurred in Pima County on 31 January 1063. He was admitted to ADC on 31 May 1963 and was housed at ASPC-Tucson. He was Caucasian, 72" tall, 175 lbs, with gray hair and brown eyes. While in prison, he worked as a cable TV technician, in general construction, in maintenance for special projects, an electrician, as admin porter, a clerk, a landscaper, in litter control, and as a groundskeeper.
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NARTEN IS CAPTURED IN MEXICO, by Tom Kaser and Jack Magee, Tucson Daily Citizen, 7 February 1963
Murder suspect Karl Hines Narten, spotted in Sasabe, Son., by a waitress, was tracked last night into a box canyon 32 miles below the border in Mexico, shot in the leg and captured.
Apprehension of the 32-year-old Tucson ex-convict by Mexican police and two Pima County sheriff's deputies came hours after his car was found abandoned west of Tucson and less than a week after the slaying of a University of Arizona student and the wounding of his coed fiancée.
"I know what you want to talk to me about, but I'm just not in any condition to talk now," Narten told Sheriff Waldon V. Burr.
The sheriff arrived by plane at the scene, near Los Molinos, Son., shortly after the jobless salesman was taken prisoner. Earlier, said the sheriff, the Mexican police informed him by telephone that they were closing in on the fugitive and asked: "Do you want him dead or alive?" Burr replied, "Alive."
Burr said Narten, wounded in the right leg by a Mexican policeman, was armed only with a small hatchet. No guns were found, in (he car, either, but there was a carbine bullet there. Narten was shot when he came out of the brush seeking water, saw the posse and charged with the hatchet, nicking one of the officers on the thumb. He was still struggling when his captors tied him up.
Narten, identified by the wounded girl through his heavy German accent, is charged in a warrant with first degree murder and assault with intent to murder in the shootings near Redington Pass last Thursday afternoon. Rickel M. Hanson, 23, of 1325 N. Swan Rd., was shot eight times with a carbine rifle. Patricia Crosby, 20, of San Marino, Calif., was wounded on the scalp.
The sheriff returned to Tucson last night. This afternoon he said Narten would be brought to Nogales, Son., by Mexican federal police and deported as an undesirable alien. Burr and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, who hold a fugitive warrant for Narten, will take him into custody on this side of the border and return him to Tucson late today or early tomorrow. Narten, of 5018 E. 24th St., is expected to be turned over formally to Pima County authorities after arraignment before U. S. Commissioner Thomas H. McKay on the fugitive warrant.
The chase into Mexico began Tuesday after the waitress, Senora Lourdes Lopez, 23, mother of a month-old boy, identified Narten from a wanted poster as the customer she served at noon in her home cafe. The poster picture was shown to her by Michael Knagge, owner of a bar in Sasabe, Son., who was circulating it around town. Continued Page 15
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Narten Is Wounded, Captured In Mexico : Cont. From Page 1
(There are two towns named Sasabe,- two miles apart. The Arizona Sasabe is 70 miles southwest of Tucson.)
That night Knagge, and a Pima County, Range Deputy John Gammons spotted a flickering fire in the hills two miles south of the border. The next morning, joined by Pima County Sheriff's Detective Richard C. Smith, they found a campfire site. Nearby an empty package of Kent cigarettes, the brand Miss Crosby said Narten smokes. Scene of Narten's capture by the posse of 20 Mexican policemen from Altar and the two Pima County officers is the Varselia Mountains, southwest of Los Molinos. Altar is 52 miles south of the border.
Knagge, who described Narten's capture, said the fugitive was seen -- but not recognized--in Sasabe, Son., as early as last Sunday. He said he trailed Narten out of the border town to a cattle guard where the suspect evidently got a ride in a truck. Driving on to Los Molinos, Knagge and the two Pima County deputies picked up the trail again, learning Narten had been in town, tried in vain to get a ride to Altar, and went into the brush. While Knagge and two Mexican boys searched the area, Altar police were summoned and the two Pima County deputies drove to a nearby ranch where they again picked up Narten's tracks but once more lost the trail. Narten hid in a cave and amid rocks while the posse searched close by. Knagge said he asked Narten how close he came to the suspect as he probed the brush on horseback. Narten replied: "You were so close I knew the color of your eyes."
SHERIFF BURR said Narten must have walked about 50 miles yesterday and had only cactus for nourishment in 24 hours. After the capture, Narten wolfed down a meat sandwich, gulped nine glasses of water, seven cups of coffee, and a bottle of pop. He also took three aspirins for a "terrific headache" and smoked a pack of cigarettes in one hour.
The sheriff reported that Narten appeared extremely concerned over the bullet wound three inches above his right knee. Over and over, Burr said, the suspect said that Mexican police used "rusty" bullets.
Asked by Burr where his guns were, Narten replied: "What guns?" "I THOUGHT you were going to be cooperative," said Burr. "Listen, I'll talk tomorrow," Narten said. The sheriff said he had been assured that Narten can be removed from Mexico. Twice, when questioned about the slaying, Narten "broke down and cried," the sheriff said, and told him: "This isn't the place "to talk about it…I don't want to talk about it. Tomorrow, maybe."
County Atty. Norman Green said Narten will be arraigned as soon as possible, "probably tomorrow." He said Narten would appear first before U. S. Commissioner Thomas McKay on the fugitive charge, which would have to be dismissed before the suspect could be turned over to the county authorities.
Deputies who had been guarding the wounded coed at St. Joseph's Hospital since she identified a picture of Narten last Friday were relieved from the post after Narten's capture. According to Mrs. Knagge, wife of the Sasabe man who circulated Narten's picture on the Mexican, side, Narten walked freely around Sasabe, Son., visiting a bar, a store and the Catholic chapel. In the bar, she said, Narten was served a soft drink by bartender Manny Santa Cruz, and kept saying, "Oh my God." In the store, he purchased a broad-brimmed straw hat from the proprietor, Trinidad Rodriguez. But when Knagge showed the picture to Senora Lopez, Narten had left town. Mrs. Knagge said Senora Lopez was unaware of her customer's identity when she served him beans and jerky and coffee.
IN LOS MOLINOS, Mrs. Knagge said, townspeople had told her Narten visited the chapel twice, locking the door each time. She drove to Los Molinos after hearing of Narten's c a p t u r e because "I wanted to see him." The w o u n d e d coed described the killer as having a "thick German accent" and driving a light-colored Volkswagen. Officers then tabbed Narten as their prime suspect when Sheriff's Detective Joe Garcia recalled Narten having threatened a teen-age boy and girl in Rose Canyon in the Catalina Mountains last Sept. 18.
Checking Narten's home, officers learned he had left home the morning after the shootings, telling his wife he was driving to Illinois to seek work. Mrs. Narten told investigators her husband had been away from home during the hours the crime took place and had weapons similar to the carbine and revolver the wounded coed said the killer carried.
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Narten Did 'Nothing But Walk' By ACE BUSHNELL Citizen Staff Writer
Tucson Daily Citizen, 7 February 1963, pg 15
ALTAR, Son. -- While the atmosphere of a carnival sideshow prevailed outside municipal hall here, accused slayer Karl Narten today asked to see this reporter to talk about anything except what happened to him in Tucson last Thursday afternoon. Questioned directly about the murder charge facing him, Narten pleaded, "Don't let's talk about that now--maybe later." He said, "Right now I can't even think straight--so I don't know." Between frequent puffs on an ever-present cigarette and mouthfuls of Coke and graham crackers with pimiento cheese, Narten admitted, "I'm a little mentally confused. "MY LEG IS quite painful, but this cot is comfortable and the Mexican police officers have been very nice."
His legs and hands in handcuffs, Narten leaned on an elbow and said he has not had his carbine or .32 automatic pistol in his possession since he returned home last Thursday. "There is a blank space as to what happened to them . . . They wouldn't be at home, I'm pretty sure." Narten is confined to a dingy back room of municipal hall piled high with cement bags. The only weapon he carried with him was a hatchet "for firewood."
SOMETIMES smiling and constantly fidgeting, Narten said he would submit to a lie detector test concerning his activities when he is returned to Tucson. Asked what he remembers about recent events, Narten answered, "I ditched my car the first day. Then I did nothing but walk and walk in the hot sun. I never stopped walking or running until I was caught." Sheriff's Det. Richard C. Smith continued to interrogate Narten this morning in hopes of obtaining a quick confession to the murder of University of Arizona student Rickel Hanson. So far, the answer has been, "Maybe later." This usually quiet, picture- book, palm-studded Mexican town of 3,000 came alive yesterday when the search for Narten was concentrated just north of here.
ALTAR'S POLICE commandant and his two aides were joined by a hastily organized 20-man posse. They borrowed guns and ammunition from Pima County Range Deputy John Gammons, who said they seemed to sense Narten's general whereabouts "by intuition." Gammons said walkie talkies failed to work but they had a great psychological effect on the Mexican posse. Reports that bloodhounds and airplanes were coming spurred the posse on, Gammons added.
After the suspect with the German accent was finally cornered and brought here, the populace swarmed to the town square. A curious mob, they couldn't believe an Americano like Narten could have committed such a crime.
"I THOUGHT it was a Fourth of July celebration," Gammons said. "We couldn't get out of the doors of our trucks when we reached here at 11 o'clock last night." Altar's school children in large numbers stopped in front of municipal hall en route to school today to peek at the Gringo who is wanted for murder. Gammons said he had never seen such cooperation as long as he had been a lawman.
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TELLS OF TERROR Coed Testifies In Narten Trial By JIM JOHNSON, The Tucson Daily Citizen, 18 May 1963
Murder suspect Karl Narten seemed sober "and very blase" after he killed her fiance with eight bullets from an Army rifle, a University of Arizona coed said yesterday. Twenty-year-old Patricia Crosby told the jury at Narten's murder trial in Superior Court that while Narten kept her captive for several hours after the slaying she "was freezing from fright. "I begged him not to kill me," she said.
MISS CROSBY testified that after Narten killed her fiance, Rickel Hanson, 23, a university senior, he forced her to disrobe and committed indecencies with her. Later, he shot her in the head and left her for dead, she said. Narten, 32, Is charged with murder in the slaying of Hanson and of assault with intent to commit murder in the wounding of Miss Crosby. The couple was shot while on an outing in the Redington Pass area on Jan. 31.
During her ordeal with Narten, Miss Crosby said, the defendant told her "to behave and he wouldn't shoot me. "He told me he had killed many men and women before. He said I should not try to get away because another life meant nothing to him." Miss Crosby added that while they talked she noticed he spoke with a German accent. "He told me not to make fun of his accent or he would kill me," she said. "He also said that these were "my mountains"--like this was my house--and that the police never find him up here..."
DEFENSE ATTORNEYS Jack Podret and William Tinney have stated they will show that Narten had been drinking heavily and that he had a blackout spell the day of the alleged crimes. The blue-eyed, brown- haired coed, however, testified that Narten didn't appear intoxicated to her and that she didn't smell any liquor on his breath "even when he tried to kiss me."
In a courtroom that filled to capacity and then overflowed with spectators, Miss Crosby appeared calm and composed. Her only sign of nervousness was an occasional biting of her lower lip. Throughout her testimony, which consumed most of the afternoon, Narten kept his head inclined, staring at a table in front of him. Occasionally, he took up a pencil and scribbled rapidly on a yellow legal tablet before him. At the direction of his attorneys, Narten rose stiffly when Miss Crosby identified him as her assailant.
MINUTES BEFORE Hanson was shot, Miss Crosby testified, they had hiked down to the Tanque Verde Falls and had discussed their coming marriage. On their return up the mountain, she said, they saw Narten, with a short rifle in his hand, coming toward them. "Rick said, 'Hi,' and the man began shooting," she explained. Miss Crosby testified on cross-examination that she had never seen Narten before that day, and that there was no argument or exchange of words between Hanson and the defendant.
County Atty. Norman E. Green and Assistant County Atty. William Schafer III, who are prosecuting the case, said that several investigators would be called by the state when the trial resumes Monday.
Only three witnesses have testified for the prosecution since the case began last Tuesday before Judge Herbert F. Krucker. Selection of the seven-woman, five-man jury took 2 1/2 days. The prosecution's other two witnesses yesterday were Drs. Louis Hirsch and William F. Holsey.
Hirsch, who performed the autopsy on Hanson, said he had been struck three times in the head and five times in the chest and stomach by "high-velocity bullets with considerable penetrating power." The bullet that struck Miss Crosby, Holsey testified, missed her brain by just one-half inch. She was still bleeding from the scalp wound when he treated her the morning following the incident, he said.
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NARTEN IS CAPTURED IN MEXICO, by Tom Kaser and Jack Magee, Tucson Daily Citizen, 7 February 1963
Murder suspect Karl Hines Narten, spotted in Sasabe, Son., by a waitress, was tracked last night into a box canyon 32 miles below the border in Mexico, shot in the leg and captured.
Apprehension of the 32-year-old Tucson ex-convict by Mexican police and two Pima County sheriff's deputies came hours after his car was found abandoned west of Tucson and less than a week after the slaying of a University of Arizona student and the wounding of his coed fiancée.
"I know what you want to talk to me about, but I'm just not in any condition to talk now," Narten told Sheriff Waldon V. Burr.
The sheriff arrived by plane at the scene, near Los Molinos, Son., shortly after the jobless salesman was taken prisoner. Earlier, said the sheriff, the Mexican police informed him by telephone that they were closing in on the fugitive and asked: "Do you want him dead or alive?" Burr replied, "Alive."
Burr said Narten, wounded in the right leg by a Mexican policeman, was armed only with a small hatchet. No guns were found, in (he car, either, but there was a carbine bullet there. Narten was shot when he came out of the brush seeking water, saw the posse and charged with the hatchet, nicking one of the officers on the thumb. He was still struggling when his captors tied him up.
Narten, identified by the wounded girl through his heavy German accent, is charged in a warrant with first degree murder and assault with intent to murder in the shootings near Redington Pass last Thursday afternoon. Rickel M. Hanson, 23, of 1325 N. Swan Rd., was shot eight times with a carbine rifle. Patricia Crosby, 20, of San Marino, Calif., was wounded on the scalp.
The sheriff returned to Tucson last night. This afternoon he said Narten would be brought to Nogales, Son., by Mexican federal police and deported as an undesirable alien. Burr and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, who hold a fugitive warrant for Narten, will take him into custody on this side of the border and return him to Tucson late today or early tomorrow. Narten, of 5018 E. 24th St., is expected to be turned over formally to Pima County authorities after arraignment before U. S. Commissioner Thomas H. McKay on the fugitive warrant.
The chase into Mexico began Tuesday after the waitress, Senora Lourdes Lopez, 23, mother of a month-old boy, identified Narten from a wanted poster as the customer she served at noon in her home cafe. The poster picture was shown to her by Michael Knagge, owner of a bar in Sasabe, Son., who was circulating it around town. Continued Page 15
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Narten Is Wounded, Captured In Mexico : Cont. From Page 1
(There are two towns named Sasabe,- two miles apart. The Arizona Sasabe is 70 miles southwest of Tucson.)
That night Knagge, and a Pima County, Range Deputy John Gammons spotted a flickering fire in the hills two miles south of the border. The next morning, joined by Pima County Sheriff's Detective Richard C. Smith, they found a campfire site. Nearby an empty package of Kent cigarettes, the brand Miss Crosby said Narten smokes. Scene of Narten's capture by the posse of 20 Mexican policemen from Altar and the two Pima County officers is the Varselia Mountains, southwest of Los Molinos. Altar is 52 miles south of the border.
Knagge, who described Narten's capture, said the fugitive was seen -- but not recognized--in Sasabe, Son., as early as last Sunday. He said he trailed Narten out of the border town to a cattle guard where the suspect evidently got a ride in a truck. Driving on to Los Molinos, Knagge and the two Pima County deputies picked up the trail again, learning Narten had been in town, tried in vain to get a ride to Altar, and went into the brush. While Knagge and two Mexican boys searched the area, Altar police were summoned and the two Pima County deputies drove to a nearby ranch where they again picked up Narten's tracks but once more lost the trail. Narten hid in a cave and amid rocks while the posse searched close by. Knagge said he asked Narten how close he came to the suspect as he probed the brush on horseback. Narten replied: "You were so close I knew the color of your eyes."
SHERIFF BURR said Narten must have walked about 50 miles yesterday and had only cactus for nourishment in 24 hours. After the capture, Narten wolfed down a meat sandwich, gulped nine glasses of water, seven cups of coffee, and a bottle of pop. He also took three aspirins for a "terrific headache" and smoked a pack of cigarettes in one hour.
The sheriff reported that Narten appeared extremely concerned over the bullet wound three inches above his right knee. Over and over, Burr said, the suspect said that Mexican police used "rusty" bullets.
Asked by Burr where his guns were, Narten replied: "What guns?" "I THOUGHT you were going to be cooperative," said Burr. "Listen, I'll talk tomorrow," Narten said. The sheriff said he had been assured that Narten can be removed from Mexico. Twice, when questioned about the slaying, Narten "broke down and cried," the sheriff said, and told him: "This isn't the place "to talk about it…I don't want to talk about it. Tomorrow, maybe."
County Atty. Norman Green said Narten will be arraigned as soon as possible, "probably tomorrow." He said Narten would appear first before U. S. Commissioner Thomas McKay on the fugitive charge, which would have to be dismissed before the suspect could be turned over to the county authorities.
Deputies who had been guarding the wounded coed at St. Joseph's Hospital since she identified a picture of Narten last Friday were relieved from the post after Narten's capture. According to Mrs. Knagge, wife of the Sasabe man who circulated Narten's picture on the Mexican, side, Narten walked freely around Sasabe, Son., visiting a bar, a store and the Catholic chapel. In the bar, she said, Narten was served a soft drink by bartender Manny Santa Cruz, and kept saying, "Oh my God." In the store, he purchased a broad-brimmed straw hat from the proprietor, Trinidad Rodriguez. But when Knagge showed the picture to Senora Lopez, Narten had left town. Mrs. Knagge said Senora Lopez was unaware of her customer's identity when she served him beans and jerky and coffee.
IN LOS MOLINOS, Mrs. Knagge said, townspeople had told her Narten visited the chapel twice, locking the door each time. She drove to Los Molinos after hearing of Narten's c a p t u r e because "I wanted to see him." The w o u n d e d coed described the killer as having a "thick German accent" and driving a light-colored Volkswagen. Officers then tabbed Narten as their prime suspect when Sheriff's Detective Joe Garcia recalled Narten having threatened a teen-age boy and girl in Rose Canyon in the Catalina Mountains last Sept. 18.
Checking Narten's home, officers learned he had left home the morning after the shootings, telling his wife he was driving to Illinois to seek work. Mrs. Narten told investigators her husband had been away from home during the hours the crime took place and had weapons similar to the carbine and revolver the wounded coed said the killer carried.
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Narten Did 'Nothing But Walk' By ACE BUSHNELL Citizen Staff Writer
Tucson Daily Citizen, 7 February 1963, pg 15
ALTAR, Son. -- While the atmosphere of a carnival sideshow prevailed outside municipal hall here, accused slayer Karl Narten today asked to see this reporter to talk about anything except what happened to him in Tucson last Thursday afternoon. Questioned directly about the murder charge facing him, Narten pleaded, "Don't let's talk about that now--maybe later." He said, "Right now I can't even think straight--so I don't know." Between frequent puffs on an ever-present cigarette and mouthfuls of Coke and graham crackers with pimiento cheese, Narten admitted, "I'm a little mentally confused. "MY LEG IS quite painful, but this cot is comfortable and the Mexican police officers have been very nice."
His legs and hands in handcuffs, Narten leaned on an elbow and said he has not had his carbine or .32 automatic pistol in his possession since he returned home last Thursday. "There is a blank space as to what happened to them . . . They wouldn't be at home, I'm pretty sure." Narten is confined to a dingy back room of municipal hall piled high with cement bags. The only weapon he carried with him was a hatchet "for firewood."
SOMETIMES smiling and constantly fidgeting, Narten said he would submit to a lie detector test concerning his activities when he is returned to Tucson. Asked what he remembers about recent events, Narten answered, "I ditched my car the first day. Then I did nothing but walk and walk in the hot sun. I never stopped walking or running until I was caught." Sheriff's Det. Richard C. Smith continued to interrogate Narten this morning in hopes of obtaining a quick confession to the murder of University of Arizona student Rickel Hanson. So far, the answer has been, "Maybe later." This usually quiet, picture- book, palm-studded Mexican town of 3,000 came alive yesterday when the search for Narten was concentrated just north of here.
ALTAR'S POLICE commandant and his two aides were joined by a hastily organized 20-man posse. They borrowed guns and ammunition from Pima County Range Deputy John Gammons, who said they seemed to sense Narten's general whereabouts "by intuition." Gammons said walkie talkies failed to work but they had a great psychological effect on the Mexican posse. Reports that bloodhounds and airplanes were coming spurred the posse on, Gammons added.
After the suspect with the German accent was finally cornered and brought here, the populace swarmed to the town square. A curious mob, they couldn't believe an Americano like Narten could have committed such a crime.
"I THOUGHT it was a Fourth of July celebration," Gammons said. "We couldn't get out of the doors of our trucks when we reached here at 11 o'clock last night." Altar's school children in large numbers stopped in front of municipal hall en route to school today to peek at the Gringo who is wanted for murder. Gammons said he had never seen such cooperation as long as he had been a lawman.
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TELLS OF TERROR Coed Testifies In Narten Trial By JIM JOHNSON, The Tucson Daily Citizen, 18 May 1963
Murder suspect Karl Narten seemed sober "and very blase" after he killed her fiance with eight bullets from an Army rifle, a University of Arizona coed said yesterday. Twenty-year-old Patricia Crosby told the jury at Narten's murder trial in Superior Court that while Narten kept her captive for several hours after the slaying she "was freezing from fright. "I begged him not to kill me," she said.
MISS CROSBY testified that after Narten killed her fiance, Rickel Hanson, 23, a university senior, he forced her to disrobe and committed indecencies with her. Later, he shot her in the head and left her for dead, she said. Narten, 32, Is charged with murder in the slaying of Hanson and of assault with intent to commit murder in the wounding of Miss Crosby. The couple was shot while on an outing in the Redington Pass area on Jan. 31.
During her ordeal with Narten, Miss Crosby said, the defendant told her "to behave and he wouldn't shoot me. "He told me he had killed many men and women before. He said I should not try to get away because another life meant nothing to him." Miss Crosby added that while they talked she noticed he spoke with a German accent. "He told me not to make fun of his accent or he would kill me," she said. "He also said that these were "my mountains"--like this was my house--and that the police never find him up here..."
DEFENSE ATTORNEYS Jack Podret and William Tinney have stated they will show that Narten had been drinking heavily and that he had a blackout spell the day of the alleged crimes. The blue-eyed, brown- haired coed, however, testified that Narten didn't appear intoxicated to her and that she didn't smell any liquor on his breath "even when he tried to kiss me."
In a courtroom that filled to capacity and then overflowed with spectators, Miss Crosby appeared calm and composed. Her only sign of nervousness was an occasional biting of her lower lip. Throughout her testimony, which consumed most of the afternoon, Narten kept his head inclined, staring at a table in front of him. Occasionally, he took up a pencil and scribbled rapidly on a yellow legal tablet before him. At the direction of his attorneys, Narten rose stiffly when Miss Crosby identified him as her assailant.
MINUTES BEFORE Hanson was shot, Miss Crosby testified, they had hiked down to the Tanque Verde Falls and had discussed their coming marriage. On their return up the mountain, she said, they saw Narten, with a short rifle in his hand, coming toward them. "Rick said, 'Hi,' and the man began shooting," she explained. Miss Crosby testified on cross-examination that she had never seen Narten before that day, and that there was no argument or exchange of words between Hanson and the defendant.
County Atty. Norman E. Green and Assistant County Atty. William Schafer III, who are prosecuting the case, said that several investigators would be called by the state when the trial resumes Monday.
Only three witnesses have testified for the prosecution since the case began last Tuesday before Judge Herbert F. Krucker. Selection of the seven-woman, five-man jury took 2 1/2 days. The prosecution's other two witnesses yesterday were Drs. Louis Hirsch and William F. Holsey.
Hirsch, who performed the autopsy on Hanson, said he had been struck three times in the head and five times in the chest and stomach by "high-velocity bullets with considerable penetrating power." The bullet that struck Miss Crosby, Holsey testified, missed her brain by just one-half inch. She was still bleeding from the scalp wound when he treated her the morning following the incident, he said.
According to a ADC press release dated 9 May 2013, Karl died of natural causes. He was serving a life sentence for the murder or University of Arizona student Rickel Hanson and assault on Patricia Cosby with murderous intent that occurred in Pima County on 31 January 1063. He was admitted to ADC on 31 May 1963 and was housed at ASPC-Tucson. He was Caucasian, 72" tall, 175 lbs, with gray hair and brown eyes. While in prison, he worked as a cable TV technician, in general construction, in maintenance for special projects, an electrician, as admin porter, a clerk, a landscaper, in litter control, and as a groundskeeper.
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NARTEN IS CAPTURED IN MEXICO, by Tom Kaser and Jack Magee, Tucson Daily Citizen, 7 February 1963
Murder suspect Karl Hines Narten, spotted in Sasabe, Son., by a waitress, was tracked last night into a box canyon 32 miles below the border in Mexico, shot in the leg and captured.
Apprehension of the 32-year-old Tucson ex-convict by Mexican police and two Pima County sheriff's deputies came hours after his car was found abandoned west of Tucson and less than a week after the slaying of a University of Arizona student and the wounding of his coed fiancée.
"I know what you want to talk to me about, but I'm just not in any condition to talk now," Narten told Sheriff Waldon V. Burr.
The sheriff arrived by plane at the scene, near Los Molinos, Son., shortly after the jobless salesman was taken prisoner. Earlier, said the sheriff, the Mexican police informed him by telephone that they were closing in on the fugitive and asked: "Do you want him dead or alive?" Burr replied, "Alive."
Burr said Narten, wounded in the right leg by a Mexican policeman, was armed only with a small hatchet. No guns were found, in (he car, either, but there was a carbine bullet there. Narten was shot when he came out of the brush seeking water, saw the posse and charged with the hatchet, nicking one of the officers on the thumb. He was still struggling when his captors tied him up.
Narten, identified by the wounded girl through his heavy German accent, is charged in a warrant with first degree murder and assault with intent to murder in the shootings near Redington Pass last Thursday afternoon. Rickel M. Hanson, 23, of 1325 N. Swan Rd., was shot eight times with a carbine rifle. Patricia Crosby, 20, of San Marino, Calif., was wounded on the scalp.
The sheriff returned to Tucson last night. This afternoon he said Narten would be brought to Nogales, Son., by Mexican federal police and deported as an undesirable alien. Burr and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, who hold a fugitive warrant for Narten, will take him into custody on this side of the border and return him to Tucson late today or early tomorrow. Narten, of 5018 E. 24th St., is expected to be turned over formally to Pima County authorities after arraignment before U. S. Commissioner Thomas H. McKay on the fugitive warrant.
The chase into Mexico began Tuesday after the waitress, Senora Lourdes Lopez, 23, mother of a month-old boy, identified Narten from a wanted poster as the customer she served at noon in her home cafe. The poster picture was shown to her by Michael Knagge, owner of a bar in Sasabe, Son., who was circulating it around town. Continued Page 15
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Narten Is Wounded, Captured In Mexico : Cont. From Page 1
(There are two towns named Sasabe,- two miles apart. The Arizona Sasabe is 70 miles southwest of Tucson.)
That night Knagge, and a Pima County, Range Deputy John Gammons spotted a flickering fire in the hills two miles south of the border. The next morning, joined by Pima County Sheriff's Detective Richard C. Smith, they found a campfire site. Nearby an empty package of Kent cigarettes, the brand Miss Crosby said Narten smokes. Scene of Narten's capture by the posse of 20 Mexican policemen from Altar and the two Pima County officers is the Varselia Mountains, southwest of Los Molinos. Altar is 52 miles south of the border.
Knagge, who described Narten's capture, said the fugitive was seen -- but not recognized--in Sasabe, Son., as early as last Sunday. He said he trailed Narten out of the border town to a cattle guard where the suspect evidently got a ride in a truck. Driving on to Los Molinos, Knagge and the two Pima County deputies picked up the trail again, learning Narten had been in town, tried in vain to get a ride to Altar, and went into the brush. While Knagge and two Mexican boys searched the area, Altar police were summoned and the two Pima County deputies drove to a nearby ranch where they again picked up Narten's tracks but once more lost the trail. Narten hid in a cave and amid rocks while the posse searched close by. Knagge said he asked Narten how close he came to the suspect as he probed the brush on horseback. Narten replied: "You were so close I knew the color of your eyes."
SHERIFF BURR said Narten must have walked about 50 miles yesterday and had only cactus for nourishment in 24 hours. After the capture, Narten wolfed down a meat sandwich, gulped nine glasses of water, seven cups of coffee, and a bottle of pop. He also took three aspirins for a "terrific headache" and smoked a pack of cigarettes in one hour.
The sheriff reported that Narten appeared extremely concerned over the bullet wound three inches above his right knee. Over and over, Burr said, the suspect said that Mexican police used "rusty" bullets.
Asked by Burr where his guns were, Narten replied: "What guns?" "I THOUGHT you were going to be cooperative," said Burr. "Listen, I'll talk tomorrow," Narten said. The sheriff said he had been assured that Narten can be removed from Mexico. Twice, when questioned about the slaying, Narten "broke down and cried," the sheriff said, and told him: "This isn't the place "to talk about it…I don't want to talk about it. Tomorrow, maybe."
County Atty. Norman Green said Narten will be arraigned as soon as possible, "probably tomorrow." He said Narten would appear first before U. S. Commissioner Thomas McKay on the fugitive charge, which would have to be dismissed before the suspect could be turned over to the county authorities.
Deputies who had been guarding the wounded coed at St. Joseph's Hospital since she identified a picture of Narten last Friday were relieved from the post after Narten's capture. According to Mrs. Knagge, wife of the Sasabe man who circulated Narten's picture on the Mexican, side, Narten walked freely around Sasabe, Son., visiting a bar, a store and the Catholic chapel. In the bar, she said, Narten was served a soft drink by bartender Manny Santa Cruz, and kept saying, "Oh my God." In the store, he purchased a broad-brimmed straw hat from the proprietor, Trinidad Rodriguez. But when Knagge showed the picture to Senora Lopez, Narten had left town. Mrs. Knagge said Senora Lopez was unaware of her customer's identity when she served him beans and jerky and coffee.
IN LOS MOLINOS, Mrs. Knagge said, townspeople had told her Narten visited the chapel twice, locking the door each time. She drove to Los Molinos after hearing of Narten's c a p t u r e because "I wanted to see him." The w o u n d e d coed described the killer as having a "thick German accent" and driving a light-colored Volkswagen. Officers then tabbed Narten as their prime suspect when Sheriff's Detective Joe Garcia recalled Narten having threatened a teen-age boy and girl in Rose Canyon in the Catalina Mountains last Sept. 18.
Checking Narten's home, officers learned he had left home the morning after the shootings, telling his wife he was driving to Illinois to seek work. Mrs. Narten told investigators her husband had been away from home during the hours the crime took place and had weapons similar to the carbine and revolver the wounded coed said the killer carried.
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Narten Did 'Nothing But Walk' By ACE BUSHNELL Citizen Staff Writer
Tucson Daily Citizen, 7 February 1963, pg 15
ALTAR, Son. -- While the atmosphere of a carnival sideshow prevailed outside municipal hall here, accused slayer Karl Narten today asked to see this reporter to talk about anything except what happened to him in Tucson last Thursday afternoon. Questioned directly about the murder charge facing him, Narten pleaded, "Don't let's talk about that now--maybe later." He said, "Right now I can't even think straight--so I don't know." Between frequent puffs on an ever-present cigarette and mouthfuls of Coke and graham crackers with pimiento cheese, Narten admitted, "I'm a little mentally confused. "MY LEG IS quite painful, but this cot is comfortable and the Mexican police officers have been very nice."
His legs and hands in handcuffs, Narten leaned on an elbow and said he has not had his carbine or .32 automatic pistol in his possession since he returned home last Thursday. "There is a blank space as to what happened to them . . . They wouldn't be at home, I'm pretty sure." Narten is confined to a dingy back room of municipal hall piled high with cement bags. The only weapon he carried with him was a hatchet "for firewood."
SOMETIMES smiling and constantly fidgeting, Narten said he would submit to a lie detector test concerning his activities when he is returned to Tucson. Asked what he remembers about recent events, Narten answered, "I ditched my car the first day. Then I did nothing but walk and walk in the hot sun. I never stopped walking or running until I was caught." Sheriff's Det. Richard C. Smith continued to interrogate Narten this morning in hopes of obtaining a quick confession to the murder of University of Arizona student Rickel Hanson. So far, the answer has been, "Maybe later." This usually quiet, picture- book, palm-studded Mexican town of 3,000 came alive yesterday when the search for Narten was concentrated just north of here.
ALTAR'S POLICE commandant and his two aides were joined by a hastily organized 20-man posse. They borrowed guns and ammunition from Pima County Range Deputy John Gammons, who said they seemed to sense Narten's general whereabouts "by intuition." Gammons said walkie talkies failed to work but they had a great psychological effect on the Mexican posse. Reports that bloodhounds and airplanes were coming spurred the posse on, Gammons added.
After the suspect with the German accent was finally cornered and brought here, the populace swarmed to the town square. A curious mob, they couldn't believe an Americano like Narten could have committed such a crime.
"I THOUGHT it was a Fourth of July celebration," Gammons said. "We couldn't get out of the doors of our trucks when we reached here at 11 o'clock last night." Altar's school children in large numbers stopped in front of municipal hall en route to school today to peek at the Gringo who is wanted for murder. Gammons said he had never seen such cooperation as long as he had been a lawman.
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TELLS OF TERROR Coed Testifies In Narten Trial By JIM JOHNSON, The Tucson Daily Citizen, 18 May 1963
Murder suspect Karl Narten seemed sober "and very blase" after he killed her fiance with eight bullets from an Army rifle, a University of Arizona coed said yesterday. Twenty-year-old Patricia Crosby told the jury at Narten's murder trial in Superior Court that while Narten kept her captive for several hours after the slaying she "was freezing from fright. "I begged him not to kill me," she said.
MISS CROSBY testified that after Narten killed her fiance, Rickel Hanson, 23, a university senior, he forced her to disrobe and committed indecencies with her. Later, he shot her in the head and left her for dead, she said. Narten, 32, Is charged with murder in the slaying of Hanson and of assault with intent to commit murder in the wounding of Miss Crosby. The couple was shot while on an outing in the Redington Pass area on Jan. 31.
During her ordeal with Narten, Miss Crosby said, the defendant told her "to behave and he wouldn't shoot me. "He told me he had killed many men and women before. He said I should not try to get away because another life meant nothing to him." Miss Crosby added that while they talked she noticed he spoke with a German accent. "He told me not to make fun of his accent or he would kill me," she said. "He also said that these were "my mountains"--like this was my house--and that the police never find him up here..."
DEFENSE ATTORNEYS Jack Podret and William Tinney have stated they will show that Narten had been drinking heavily and that he had a blackout spell the day of the alleged crimes. The blue-eyed, brown- haired coed, however, testified that Narten didn't appear intoxicated to her and that she didn't smell any liquor on his breath "even when he tried to kiss me."
In a courtroom that filled to capacity and then overflowed with spectators, Miss Crosby appeared calm and composed. Her only sign of nervousness was an occasional biting of her lower lip. Throughout her testimony, which consumed most of the afternoon, Narten kept his head inclined, staring at a table in front of him. Occasionally, he took up a pencil and scribbled rapidly on a yellow legal tablet before him. At the direction of his attorneys, Narten rose stiffly when Miss Crosby identified him as her assailant.
MINUTES BEFORE Hanson was shot, Miss Crosby testified, they had hiked down to the Tanque Verde Falls and had discussed their coming marriage. On their return up the mountain, she said, they saw Narten, with a short rifle in his hand, coming toward them. "Rick said, 'Hi,' and the man began shooting," she explained. Miss Crosby testified on cross-examination that she had never seen Narten before that day, and that there was no argument or exchange of words between Hanson and the defendant.
County Atty. Norman E. Green and Assistant County Atty. William Schafer III, who are prosecuting the case, said that several investigators would be called by the state when the trial resumes Monday.
Only three witnesses have testified for the prosecution since the case began last Tuesday before Judge Herbert F. Krucker. Selection of the seven-woman, five-man jury took 2 1/2 days. The prosecution's other two witnesses yesterday were Drs. Louis Hirsch and William F. Holsey.
Hirsch, who performed the autopsy on Hanson, said he had been struck three times in the head and five times in the chest and stomach by "high-velocity bullets with considerable penetrating power." The bullet that struck Miss Crosby, Holsey testified, missed her brain by just one-half inch. She was still bleeding from the scalp wound when he treated her the morning following the incident, he said.
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NARTEN IS CAPTURED IN MEXICO, by Tom Kaser and Jack Magee, Tucson Daily Citizen, 7 February 1963
Murder suspect Karl Hines Narten, spotted in Sasabe, Son., by a waitress, was tracked last night into a box canyon 32 miles below the border in Mexico, shot in the leg and captured.
Apprehension of the 32-year-old Tucson ex-convict by Mexican police and two Pima County sheriff's deputies came hours after his car was found abandoned west of Tucson and less than a week after the slaying of a University of Arizona student and the wounding of his coed fiancée.
"I know what you want to talk to me about, but I'm just not in any condition to talk now," Narten told Sheriff Waldon V. Burr.
The sheriff arrived by plane at the scene, near Los Molinos, Son., shortly after the jobless salesman was taken prisoner. Earlier, said the sheriff, the Mexican police informed him by telephone that they were closing in on the fugitive and asked: "Do you want him dead or alive?" Burr replied, "Alive."
Burr said Narten, wounded in the right leg by a Mexican policeman, was armed only with a small hatchet. No guns were found, in (he car, either, but there was a carbine bullet there. Narten was shot when he came out of the brush seeking water, saw the posse and charged with the hatchet, nicking one of the officers on the thumb. He was still struggling when his captors tied him up.
Narten, identified by the wounded girl through his heavy German accent, is charged in a warrant with first degree murder and assault with intent to murder in the shootings near Redington Pass last Thursday afternoon. Rickel M. Hanson, 23, of 1325 N. Swan Rd., was shot eight times with a carbine rifle. Patricia Crosby, 20, of San Marino, Calif., was wounded on the scalp.
The sheriff returned to Tucson last night. This afternoon he said Narten would be brought to Nogales, Son., by Mexican federal police and deported as an undesirable alien. Burr and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, who hold a fugitive warrant for Narten, will take him into custody on this side of the border and return him to Tucson late today or early tomorrow. Narten, of 5018 E. 24th St., is expected to be turned over formally to Pima County authorities after arraignment before U. S. Commissioner Thomas H. McKay on the fugitive warrant.
The chase into Mexico began Tuesday after the waitress, Senora Lourdes Lopez, 23, mother of a month-old boy, identified Narten from a wanted poster as the customer she served at noon in her home cafe. The poster picture was shown to her by Michael Knagge, owner of a bar in Sasabe, Son., who was circulating it around town. Continued Page 15
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Narten Is Wounded, Captured In Mexico : Cont. From Page 1
(There are two towns named Sasabe,- two miles apart. The Arizona Sasabe is 70 miles southwest of Tucson.)
That night Knagge, and a Pima County, Range Deputy John Gammons spotted a flickering fire in the hills two miles south of the border. The next morning, joined by Pima County Sheriff's Detective Richard C. Smith, they found a campfire site. Nearby an empty package of Kent cigarettes, the brand Miss Crosby said Narten smokes. Scene of Narten's capture by the posse of 20 Mexican policemen from Altar and the two Pima County officers is the Varselia Mountains, southwest of Los Molinos. Altar is 52 miles south of the border.
Knagge, who described Narten's capture, said the fugitive was seen -- but not recognized--in Sasabe, Son., as early as last Sunday. He said he trailed Narten out of the border town to a cattle guard where the suspect evidently got a ride in a truck. Driving on to Los Molinos, Knagge and the two Pima County deputies picked up the trail again, learning Narten had been in town, tried in vain to get a ride to Altar, and went into the brush. While Knagge and two Mexican boys searched the area, Altar police were summoned and the two Pima County deputies drove to a nearby ranch where they again picked up Narten's tracks but once more lost the trail. Narten hid in a cave and amid rocks while the posse searched close by. Knagge said he asked Narten how close he came to the suspect as he probed the brush on horseback. Narten replied: "You were so close I knew the color of your eyes."
SHERIFF BURR said Narten must have walked about 50 miles yesterday and had only cactus for nourishment in 24 hours. After the capture, Narten wolfed down a meat sandwich, gulped nine glasses of water, seven cups of coffee, and a bottle of pop. He also took three aspirins for a "terrific headache" and smoked a pack of cigarettes in one hour.
The sheriff reported that Narten appeared extremely concerned over the bullet wound three inches above his right knee. Over and over, Burr said, the suspect said that Mexican police used "rusty" bullets.
Asked by Burr where his guns were, Narten replied: "What guns?" "I THOUGHT you were going to be cooperative," said Burr. "Listen, I'll talk tomorrow," Narten said. The sheriff said he had been assured that Narten can be removed from Mexico. Twice, when questioned about the slaying, Narten "broke down and cried," the sheriff said, and told him: "This isn't the place "to talk about it…I don't want to talk about it. Tomorrow, maybe."
County Atty. Norman Green said Narten will be arraigned as soon as possible, "probably tomorrow." He said Narten would appear first before U. S. Commissioner Thomas McKay on the fugitive charge, which would have to be dismissed before the suspect could be turned over to the county authorities.
Deputies who had been guarding the wounded coed at St. Joseph's Hospital since she identified a picture of Narten last Friday were relieved from the post after Narten's capture. According to Mrs. Knagge, wife of the Sasabe man who circulated Narten's picture on the Mexican, side, Narten walked freely around Sasabe, Son., visiting a bar, a store and the Catholic chapel. In the bar, she said, Narten was served a soft drink by bartender Manny Santa Cruz, and kept saying, "Oh my God." In the store, he purchased a broad-brimmed straw hat from the proprietor, Trinidad Rodriguez. But when Knagge showed the picture to Senora Lopez, Narten had left town. Mrs. Knagge said Senora Lopez was unaware of her customer's identity when she served him beans and jerky and coffee.
IN LOS MOLINOS, Mrs. Knagge said, townspeople had told her Narten visited the chapel twice, locking the door each time. She drove to Los Molinos after hearing of Narten's c a p t u r e because "I wanted to see him." The w o u n d e d coed described the killer as having a "thick German accent" and driving a light-colored Volkswagen. Officers then tabbed Narten as their prime suspect when Sheriff's Detective Joe Garcia recalled Narten having threatened a teen-age boy and girl in Rose Canyon in the Catalina Mountains last Sept. 18.
Checking Narten's home, officers learned he had left home the morning after the shootings, telling his wife he was driving to Illinois to seek work. Mrs. Narten told investigators her husband had been away from home during the hours the crime took place and had weapons similar to the carbine and revolver the wounded coed said the killer carried.
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Narten Did 'Nothing But Walk' By ACE BUSHNELL Citizen Staff Writer
Tucson Daily Citizen, 7 February 1963, pg 15
ALTAR, Son. -- While the atmosphere of a carnival sideshow prevailed outside municipal hall here, accused slayer Karl Narten today asked to see this reporter to talk about anything except what happened to him in Tucson last Thursday afternoon. Questioned directly about the murder charge facing him, Narten pleaded, "Don't let's talk about that now--maybe later." He said, "Right now I can't even think straight--so I don't know." Between frequent puffs on an ever-present cigarette and mouthfuls of Coke and graham crackers with pimiento cheese, Narten admitted, "I'm a little mentally confused. "MY LEG IS quite painful, but this cot is comfortable and the Mexican police officers have been very nice."
His legs and hands in handcuffs, Narten leaned on an elbow and said he has not had his carbine or .32 automatic pistol in his possession since he returned home last Thursday. "There is a blank space as to what happened to them . . . They wouldn't be at home, I'm pretty sure." Narten is confined to a dingy back room of municipal hall piled high with cement bags. The only weapon he carried with him was a hatchet "for firewood."
SOMETIMES smiling and constantly fidgeting, Narten said he would submit to a lie detector test concerning his activities when he is returned to Tucson. Asked what he remembers about recent events, Narten answered, "I ditched my car the first day. Then I did nothing but walk and walk in the hot sun. I never stopped walking or running until I was caught." Sheriff's Det. Richard C. Smith continued to interrogate Narten this morning in hopes of obtaining a quick confession to the murder of University of Arizona student Rickel Hanson. So far, the answer has been, "Maybe later." This usually quiet, picture- book, palm-studded Mexican town of 3,000 came alive yesterday when the search for Narten was concentrated just north of here.
ALTAR'S POLICE commandant and his two aides were joined by a hastily organized 20-man posse. They borrowed guns and ammunition from Pima County Range Deputy John Gammons, who said they seemed to sense Narten's general whereabouts "by intuition." Gammons said walkie talkies failed to work but they had a great psychological effect on the Mexican posse. Reports that bloodhounds and airplanes were coming spurred the posse on, Gammons added.
After the suspect with the German accent was finally cornered and brought here, the populace swarmed to the town square. A curious mob, they couldn't believe an Americano like Narten could have committed such a crime.
"I THOUGHT it was a Fourth of July celebration," Gammons said. "We couldn't get out of the doors of our trucks when we reached here at 11 o'clock last night." Altar's school children in large numbers stopped in front of municipal hall en route to school today to peek at the Gringo who is wanted for murder. Gammons said he had never seen such cooperation as long as he had been a lawman.
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TELLS OF TERROR Coed Testifies In Narten Trial By JIM JOHNSON, The Tucson Daily Citizen, 18 May 1963
Murder suspect Karl Narten seemed sober "and very blase" after he killed her fiance with eight bullets from an Army rifle, a University of Arizona coed said yesterday. Twenty-year-old Patricia Crosby told the jury at Narten's murder trial in Superior Court that while Narten kept her captive for several hours after the slaying she "was freezing from fright. "I begged him not to kill me," she said.
MISS CROSBY testified that after Narten killed her fiance, Rickel Hanson, 23, a university senior, he forced her to disrobe and committed indecencies with her. Later, he shot her in the head and left her for dead, she said. Narten, 32, Is charged with murder in the slaying of Hanson and of assault with intent to commit murder in the wounding of Miss Crosby. The couple was shot while on an outing in the Redington Pass area on Jan. 31.
During her ordeal with Narten, Miss Crosby said, the defendant told her "to behave and he wouldn't shoot me. "He told me he had killed many men and women before. He said I should not try to get away because another life meant nothing to him." Miss Crosby added that while they talked she noticed he spoke with a German accent. "He told me not to make fun of his accent or he would kill me," she said. "He also said that these were "my mountains"--like this was my house--and that the police never find him up here..."
DEFENSE ATTORNEYS Jack Podret and William Tinney have stated they will show that Narten had been drinking heavily and that he had a blackout spell the day of the alleged crimes. The blue-eyed, brown- haired coed, however, testified that Narten didn't appear intoxicated to her and that she didn't smell any liquor on his breath "even when he tried to kiss me."
In a courtroom that filled to capacity and then overflowed with spectators, Miss Crosby appeared calm and composed. Her only sign of nervousness was an occasional biting of her lower lip. Throughout her testimony, which consumed most of the afternoon, Narten kept his head inclined, staring at a table in front of him. Occasionally, he took up a pencil and scribbled rapidly on a yellow legal tablet before him. At the direction of his attorneys, Narten rose stiffly when Miss Crosby identified him as her assailant.
MINUTES BEFORE Hanson was shot, Miss Crosby testified, they had hiked down to the Tanque Verde Falls and had discussed their coming marriage. On their return up the mountain, she said, they saw Narten, with a short rifle in his hand, coming toward them. "Rick said, 'Hi,' and the man began shooting," she explained. Miss Crosby testified on cross-examination that she had never seen Narten before that day, and that there was no argument or exchange of words between Hanson and the defendant.
County Atty. Norman E. Green and Assistant County Atty. William Schafer III, who are prosecuting the case, said that several investigators would be called by the state when the trial resumes Monday.
Only three witnesses have testified for the prosecution since the case began last Tuesday before Judge Herbert F. Krucker. Selection of the seven-woman, five-man jury took 2 1/2 days. The prosecution's other two witnesses yesterday were Drs. Louis Hirsch and William F. Holsey.
Hirsch, who performed the autopsy on Hanson, said he had been struck three times in the head and five times in the chest and stomach by "high-velocity bullets with considerable penetrating power." The bullet that struck Miss Crosby, Holsey testified, missed her brain by just one-half inch. She was still bleeding from the scalp wound when he treated her the morning following the incident, he said.
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