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Charles Summers

Posted 2019-01-19 by Judy Wight Branson
Weekly Journal Miner. Prescott, Arizona
Wednesday, December 29, 1920, page 1, columns 1 & 2

John Lohlein Arrested For The Slaying of Charles Summers On Ash Fork
Road

John Lohlein, single, a saddler employed at Frank Olzer's was placed in
the county jail late last night, charged with the murder of Charles
Summers, former Montana cowboy and recently of the Horseshoe Ranch
country.

Summers body, lying where it had been dragged from an automobile seven
miles north on the Jerome Junction road, was viewed about 1 a.m. this
morning by a jury impanlled by Coroner Charles H. McLane. It bore a
bullet hole in the head.

Summers, who was unmarried, was for a number of years in the employ of
W. H. Coburn, who last night supplied many of the details of the
deceased's former life.

Not much is known of Lohlein, who was arrested by Sheriff Davis and
Deputy Jim Cook on the porch of the house where he rooms, at 130 North
Montezuma street. Lohlein is said to have broken down when asked by
the sheriff if he had not killed a man, but is said to have revealed
nothing. Earlier in the evening, Night Officer Dick Twamley was called
to Lohlein's room on a complaint of neighbors and there secured an
automatic pistol from Lohlein. It was later reported to the sheriff's
office by persons whose identity is not made public by the authorities,
that Lohlein had killed Charles Summers and that Summers body would be
found seven miles out the road toward Jerome Junction.

Bloody Testimony -

An overcoat, stiffened with blood despite the fact that it had been
washed, was said by sheriff's attaches to have been found on Lohlein's
premises, and his car, housed in a shed behind his rooming house was
also said to have borne blood stains and to have been marked with a
bullet hole.

Mystery attaches to the information source that led Sheriff Davis and
his deputies to the scene of the homicide and to the Lohlein apartment.
Nothing was known of the affair when earlier in the evening Twamley
went to Lohlein's rooms and took from him an automatic pistol, believed
by the officers to be the weapon with which Summers was killed.


Transcriber's note: Mr. Summers is buried in an unmarked grave at the
Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona.




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