IGNACIO MIRANDA
Arizona Republican Newspaper
October 2, 1904
Ignacio Miranda died yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock
at the residence of his step son, Pedro Salazar, corner
of Fourth and Van Buren Streets. The funeral will be
held this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Catholic
Church and interment will be made in the Catholic
Cemetery. The dead man was 52 years old and had
lived in this valley the greater part of his life
having been in the early days an employee of King
Woolsey, one of the oldest pioneers in Arizona.
CHESTER AINSWORTH
EDWARD MOORE
April 8, 1899
Attorney General Ainsworth received a telegram late yesterday
afternoon from Sheriff Scott White at Tombstone, informing him
of the killing of his brother Chester Ainsworth in the Chiracahua
Mountains by the Haldermans, a coule of brothers engaged in
horse stealing and who were being pursued by the murdered man.
Another telegram was received from W.D. Monmonier at Pearce, saying
that it was reported there that G.L. Ainsworth had been shot and
killed on Thursday night by the Halderman brothers and that
everything possible was being done to capture the murderers.
The killing took place at or near Wilgus, fifty miles south of
the Pearce Mine.
The murdered man was a younger brother of the attorney general
and Chauncey F. Ainsworth. He came to Phoenix about ten years
ago and resided here for some time after which he went to
Cochise County and engaged in mining. He was a Deputy Sheriff
of that county and encountered death in the performance of his
official duty. He leaves a family at Pearce.
April 10, 1899
Attorney-General Charles F. Ainsworth and George Merriman returned
yesterday from Pearce, where they had been to investigate the
advisability of sending east the body of Chester L. Ainsworth
who was killed by the Haldermans in the Chiracuhua Mountains
Friday. The remains were found well preserved owing to the
snows which had fallen in the mountains. The funeral was held
at Pearce, at which almost every person in that locality was
present. The deceased had been a great favorite among the
people in that place as was his companion, Edward Moore,
who was also killed by the Haldermans.
Mrs. Ainsworth , wife of the deceased is prostrated as a result
of the murder and her physicians have not permitted her to view
the body, frearing that any further shock will cause her to
collapse. Mr. Ainsworth was a member of the Order of Workmen,
from which Mrs. Ainsworth will receive $2000.
The people in the neighborhood of the tragedy say that it was the
most cold blooded murder which has ever occurred there. What
seemed still more strange as the fact tha tthe Haldermans were
not known as bad men and were considered friendly to Deputy
Sheriff Ainsworth.
The two Halderman brothers lived on a cattle ranch thirty five
miles from Pearce near a small place named Willgus. A warrant
had been issued against them for killing cattle on the range
and it was placed in the hands of Deputy Ainsworth. The latter
started to make the arrest last Friday morning and stoped a half
mile from Halderman's Ranch at Moore's Ranch. Here he enlisted
the aid of Edward Moore, a young man 19 years of age and the two
started well armed with pistols, although they did not anticipate
trouble, for the Halderman Ranch. Arriving at the ranch that
morning they found both the Haldermans in the yard. Ainsworth
formally made the arrest which was done peacefully. Ainsworth
asked them if they had eaten breakfast and when they replied
in the negative he told them to eat. Ainsworth advised them that
they would proalby be compelled to stay in Pearce two or three
days on account of their preliminary examination and advised
them to make ample preparations.
The Haldermans went into the house while the officer and young
Moore rested easily on their horses very close to the house.
After the Haldermans had been in the house a considerable time
Ainsworth called to one of them by first name and asked if he
were not about ready. No reply was made, but almost immediately
the brothers bolted out from different doors in such a manner
that one of them was in front of Ainsworth and the other behind him.
With their Winchesters they opened fire and Ainsworth fell from
his horse. The two murderers then directed their guns at Moore.
A bullet pierced Moore's bowels but death was not instantateous.
He had drawn his pistol and discharged four shots without effect
before he was aware of the death of his companion. Then he
wheeled his horse nad made his way home, where he acquainted
his mother and sister with the facts of the killing. He died a
little more than two hours afterward.
The Haldermans in the meantime had taken the horse of Ainsworth
and with one of their own fled to the mountains. A coroner's jury
held an inquest at the ranch Friday afternoon and the body was
taken to Pearce on the following day. The remains of Moore were
buried near his home. Chauncey Ainsworth, brohter of the dead
officer left for Cochise Saturday and he will accompany the
body from that place to Flint, Michigan.
A posse consisting of fifty men is carefully searching the
mountains for the outlaws. It is not believed that the posse
will bring the brothers back alive.
FRANK ALLAWAY
March 22, 1899
Frank Allaway, aged 20 died at 1 o'clock yesterday morning of
a hemorrhage at his residence, two miles north of the city.
The remains were sent to Chicago last night. They were accompanied
by his mother and sister.
TEDDY ARNOLD
April 26, 1899
A telegram was received here yesterday from Mrs. Mary A. Arnold of
Shenandoah, Iowa informing the Phoenix Camp Woodman of the World
of the death of her son, Joseph A. Arnold yesterday. He was better
known here as Teddy Arnold. He came here for his health about
three years ago. He regained it in a measure and might have
lived. He joined Col. McCord's Regiment but go no further than
the rendezvous at Whipple. He gave way under the exposure of
camp life and lay for some time in the hospital after his
regiment had been ordered east. After his return to Phoenix
his decline was steady. He left for his home two months ago.
Teddy Arnold made many friends here and the news of his death
will be heard by them with sorrow.
WILLIAM L. AVERY
July 25, 1899
William L. Avery died suddenly at McCarty's Corral at Five Points
yessterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The dead man came to this
territory from Salt Lake City, stopping a short time at Flagstaff
and arriving here four months ago. He had been sick of la grippe.
This was followed by bronchitis and Avery came here for relief.
He was a healthy looking man. His death was due to heart
trouble. He had been siting on his cot where he slept out of
doors in the corral, fifteen minutes before he died and at the
time he remarekd that he felt much better than he had been
feeling during the last few days. He expressed a belief that
he would soon recover from his ailment. He was unusually
cheerful and spoke of the relish with which he had eaten a
watermelon a half hour before. The man he spoke to left him
and on his return in fifteen minutes found him dead. The coroner
was notified and an inquest was begun at the corral but postponed
until 9 o'clock this morning. The remains were removed to the
parlors of Davis and Company.
The dead man was a native of Ontario Canada and was 48 years old.
Years ago he fought Indians in this country and was a scout in
the Seventh Cavalry, Custer's command, at the time of the masascre,
though he was not present at the disaster of the Little Big
Horn. It is thought that he has friends and relatives at Ogden
Utah.
The fact that he had eaten watermelon so soon before his death
is of interest from the circumstance that a dozen men have died
suddenly in this valley within the last five or six years within
a few minutes of partaking of a watermelon. Death was not
traced to that vegetable in any case, but usually directly to
some disease. In a couple of instances the dead men were found
with pieces of the watermelon yet in their mouths. It is
thought that the melons, having been shipped long distances,
were quite green and not fully ripened.
ALBERT BAUER
April 14, 1899
Albert Bauer, aged 20 died yesterday of typhoid fever. Deceased
came here from Philadelphia over five weeks ago. The cause of
his sickness was attributed to the impure city water of
Philadephia. His survival of the severe attack for the length
of time is remarkable. During the last twenty four days he had
been delirious and he lived three days after a severe hemorrhage.
His father, Louis J. Bauer, a wealthy brewer of Philadelphia
and daughter came here two weeks ago in response to a telegram
announcing his dangerous condition. They did not expect to
find him alive. The strain on Mr. Bauer since his arrival has
been so telling that it was thought he would collapse.
