Tom Grindell
October 10, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
The latest reports from E.F. Grindell adds to the fears of
those who believe his brother T.F. Grindell and party, for
whom he went in search a few weeks ago, have perished by
foul play in Sonora.
E.P. Grindell was in Nogales on Friday having just returned
from Altar where with the aid of local officials he found
the Papago guide who left that place with the party last
June, returning later without them. The subsequent actions
of the guide and his later sudden disappearance indicate
that he either murdered them or knew more about their fate
than he cared to tell.
When Mr. Grindell found the guide the latter told him that
before he left the party they had passed the four hands
nailed to stakes in the ground, that were mentioned in an
earlier report and believed to have been the hands of T.F.
Grindell and some member of his party. They were en route
to Escalantes ranch thirty five miles from the coast and
camping one night where there was no water, turned the
horses loose. The horses wandered away and the next day
was spent in looking for them. He then left the party
and returned to Caborca. He offered to take E.P. Grindell
to the place and a bargain was made but the night before
Mr. Grindell was informed by a citizen of Caborea that
the guide was not a safe man to trust alone, he volunteering
to accompany them. When the Indian was told this man
would go with them the Indian demurred at first, but later
agreed providing two of his brothers be allowed to
accompany them also. But when the time came for the
start it was discovered the Indian guide had fled.
Mr. Grindell says he believes the story of the horses
scattering and fears that while the men were separated
in their search for them the guide killed them one at a
time. He also believes that had he gone with the guide
alone he would have met the same fate.
E.P. Grindell next went to Hermosillo and told his story to
Governor Ysabel who said he would try in every way possible
to apprehend the Indian guide. Mr. Grindlel will be in
Tucson for a time and if he fails to hear anything from
the Governor he will organize another expedition to
search the country in the vicinity of Escalantes Ranch.
Jake Haigler
October 12, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
It was learned here yesterday that Jake Haigler, familiarly
known as Uncle Jake, had died at or near his home, above
Roosevelt the latter part of last month. His post office
address was Young, and he lived about eight miles from that
place. His death was the result of an accident which
occurred while he was riding the range not far from his
home. He left home riding a mule and the next day the
animal returned without the rider, but still bearing the
saddle and bridle. A search was started at once, and the
next day the unconscious form of Mr. Haigler was found in
the creek bed partly in the water. From appearances it
would seem that he had fallen from the mule or had been
bucked off. At any rate, he had been dragged some distance,
but after loosening himself he had crawled as far as the
water where he had remained until the searchers found him.
He had been exposed to the weather and hunger for two days
and nights and that, added to the injuries sustained by the
fall, finally resulted in death although he lived nine days
after the accident. Part of that time he was rational, but
the greater part of the time he was unconscious. The
funeral was held at the home and the interment made
there.
It seems strange that it should have taken so long for the
news to reach here. The only relative he had this side of
the Mississippi River was J.F. Haigler of this place, who
is a cousin and with whom he spent a good deal of his time
while he was in the valley. He owned a good range near
Young and was fairly prosperous up to a few years ago
when the drought caused him as well as many others in
that part of the country, heavy losses. At that time he
became indebted to J.E. Sturgeon and several others in
this part of the country.
Helen Esther HARDWICK
January 5, 1905
Helen Esther, the two year old baby of Mr. and Mrs.
J.J. Hardwick died at half past eight last night.
The little one had for some time been suffering of
an intermitent fever attending an attack of bronchitis.
After a day of suffering she was seized with convulsions
and passed away. The funeral will take place at three
o'clock this afternoon at the Catholic church. Friends
of the family are asked to be present.
Mrs. Thomas Harmon
November 15, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Mrs. Thomas Harmon who has been critically ill at her
home south of town for some time and who has been
lingering between life and death for the past week,
died early yesterday morning. She has been sick for
the last three months and some weeks ago her life was
despaired of, but hope was not given up and everything
possible was done for her up to the end. The cause of
death was stomach trouble.
The funeral will be held this morning at 10 o'clock from
the Baptist Church, Rev. Chapin officiating. The funeral
will be conducted by Undertakers Merryman and Moore of
Phoenix and interment will be made in the Double Butte
Cemetery.
Mrs. Harmon was seventy one years old and was a native
of Kentucky. She has been a resident of Arizona, however
for the past twnty one years and duirng that time has been
prominently identified with the Baptist Church of which
she was an active and conscientious member.
She is survived by her husband, two sons, L.L. Harmon and
Judson Harmon and two daughters, Mrs. W.R. Lewis and Miss
Victoria Harmon, all of whom are living here.
Funeral of Mrs. Harmon
November 16, 1905
The funeral of Mrs. Thomas Harmon who died early Tuesday morning
was held yesterday at the Baptist Church, REv. Chapin
officiating. The services were largely attended by
sorrowing friends and relatives. The pall bearers were:
Rev. R.A. Windes, J.W. Woolf, T.A. Hawes, Gabe Cosner,
Howard Woods and C.N. Stewart.
MRS. EDWIN LOUIS HARRIS
December 8, 1905
Mrs. Edwin Louis Harris died at Congress on December 4.
Mrs. Harris was a native of St. Day, Cornwall, England
and was thirty three years of age. She left beside her
husband, a little boy of nine. The funeral services
were held in the Presbyterian church in Congress and
were attended by many friends of the bereft husband.
The services were conducted by Rev. Robert Ball.
MISS LENA HARRIS
February 1, 1905
Miss Lena Harris of Chicago died quite unexpectedly
yesterday morning of consumption at her temporary
home at the residence of Mr. Franklin, No. 1413 East
Van Buren Street. She was able to be out driving the
day before and had even planned a visit to the house
of a friend yesterday but was seized with a fatal
choking spell early yesterday morning. She was a
most estimable young woman of Jewish lineage and
had many friends here particularly among the people
of her faith.
She spent last winter in Phoenix for her health,
returning to Chicago in the spring and going to
Los Angeles last fall, coming to Phoneix for the
last time only a few weeks ago. The body is at
the parlors of Mohn and Dorris and friends who
desire to do so are invited to call and view her
features for the last time between 1 and 3 o'clock
this afternoon. The body will be sent to chicago
tomorrow morning for interment.
RICHARD HARRISON
Arizona Republican Newspaper
March 30, 1905
Jerry Sheehy was convicted and is serving time in Yuma for
the killing of his best friend Richard Harrison in Santa
Cruz County. Among the grounds on which an appeal in the
Sheehy case was based was the admission by the trial court
of a statement by Harrison after the shooting which he
called attention to the fact that he was not armed when
Sheehy shot him. It could not be regarded as a dying
statement and it was close to the borderline of hearsay
testimony but the court held that in any event it was
insufficient for a reversal of the case.
Richard Harrison
January 18, 1904
A fatality seems to be attending the well known Harrison
family of Washington Camp, Santa Cruz County. Richard
Harrison, the son of Judge Harrison, and a brother in
law of Hon. D.G. Chalmers, the Speaker of the House of
the Nineteenth Legislature, who was killed by Jerry
Sheehy last Friday near Washington camp, is the second
son of that family to meet a violent death in the same
locality within two years.
A little less than two years ago an older son was killed
at Washington by a man by the name of Morgan, who is now
serving twenty years at Yuma.
The facts of the killing last Friday are not all known
yet. It is reported that it was the culminating incident
in a quarrel about some cattle. There is a suspicion
though that there was some other cause. Harrison and
Sheehy had for several years been running mates. They
had been particularly chummy and taken part in several
escapades and in one affair that could not be called an
escapade. It was an assault one day on Hon. Colin Cameron
whom they met on the range at Lochiel. They dismounted
from their horses and pulling Mr. Cameron from his horse
beat him almost into insensibility.
The case was taken into a U.S. court and after a stubborn
trial they were acquitted. Richard Harrison was the youngest
member of the Harrison family.
