Charles Eyer
April 5, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper
News reached Phoenix of the death of Mr. Charles
Eyer at Glendale. He was a young man of good habits
and had a host of friends to mourn the loss. Death
resulted from blood poisoning, originating from
carbuncles that broke out on the neck.
F.M. FARRAR
Arizona Republican Newspaper
July 4, 1902
The latest concerning the disappearance of F.M. Farrar, who
dropped out of sight in Bisbee in the sixth day of last March
is that he is a dead man, whose body was found near Santa Rosa
New Mexico last Saturday, says the Bisbee Review.
The Farrar mystery has been the most sensational in the
history of Bisbee. All sorts of theories have been advanced
to account for the motive which prompted him to leave the
city. He was employed by the New Liverpool Salt Company of
San Francisco and when he disappeared, all his accounts were
straight. W.M. Appel, a skilled detective employed to
ferret out the case scoured the entire southwest for
Farrar but the latter, after gambling away considerable
money here and in Tucson had utterly disappeared and no
one was able to trace him. It was thought that Farrar
had gone to work for the Bisbee railroad or had gone to
Cananea but each when run down proved to be a mistake.
The dead man found at Santa Rosa had either been murdered
or had taken his own life. The victim was a man of about
fifty and the countenance was unrecognizable. He was dressed
in a new suit of blue serge, new blue underwear and new
shoes. Two teeth were out in the lower front jaw and ten
dollars were found in his pockets, also two guides, one
a Colorado Southern and the other a May Rock Island
folder. A note was found stating that he was tired of
being followed by detectives. A revolver of 38 caliber
was found by his side with a bullet hole in his head.
Sam Finley
March 10, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper
News was received in Tucson a day or two ago that Sam
Finley had been shot and killed in Tonapah, Nevada.
Mr. Finely was well known in Arizona, being a brother of
Hon. J.B. Finley, formerly a member of the territorial
legislature. He had many friends and some enemies, but
was always an aggressive man and an interesting
character. Of his record a Tucson paper says,:
"Tonopah is a new mining town in Nevada and is
consequently a pretty tough place. Finley was up in
that country purchasing horses. Last September he
went into the livery business in Los Angeles and has
of late been buying and selling horses. He expected
to come to Airzona this spring, but found that he
could not make a trade here, and for that reason
went up into Nevada.
Finley was well known in Southern Arizona, where he
had the reputation of being a bad man with a gun.
He was at one time a mounted inspector for the
Nogales custom house and in company with Sam King,
who held the same position, killed a Mexican at
Bisbee, who opened fire on them when they held
him up for smuggling mescal. During a recent
trip to Sonora, Finley killed a man from Texas
in a fight over two mules which both claimed.
Some time ago Finley was in Nevada and when
trying arrest four men for some offense engaged
in a pistol fight with them and dropping behind
an open blacksmith forge, killed three of them.
When the Cochise train robbers escaped from the
jail at Tombstone, Finley was indicted on several
counts for aiding and abetting their escape, but he
was never convicted. At one time, Finley served as
city marshal here and was a candidate for several
other offices. He was in the city last December but
he came and went quietly and few of his friends knew
of his visit."
Some years ago Finley was employed by an association of
cattlemen in Pima County to protect them against Papago
cattle thieves who occupied the whole southerwestern part
of Pima and the southern part of Yuma County. Finley
went into that lonely desert region looking for the
thieves and whenever he found one he brought him to
Tucson. It was a perilous job and one that not one
man in a thousand would take at any price. He was
well paid and did his work well.
Finley lived in Phoenix at one time and was after
that in the Tonto Basin country associated with the
Tewksburys.
John B. Fitzgerald
April 18, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper
A few months ago John B. Fitzgerald of 401 West
Sixty First Street, New York, came to Phoenix for
his health, which was then in a most desperate
condition. He at last went into the Sisters
Hospital, where he remained until yesterday
afternoon when he started to Los Angeles. He
died soon after the Maricopa and Phoenix train
reached Maricopa. When Superintendent Porter
heard of his death he ordered the remains to
be brought back to Phoenix this morning and
turned over to the undertaker to await
instructions from the friends of the dead
man. Later a message was received from
Maricopa saying the body could not be brought
back on the morning train as an inquest would
have to be held. Mr. Porter wired H.B. Clancy
of New York, informing him of Mr. Fitzgerald's
death.
JOHN FITZGERALD
September 22, 1902
John Fitzgerald, a well known Jerome character was killed
early Saturday morning. While intoxicated he fell down a
flight of steps leading from Main Street to the Brookshire
basement. The fall crushed the back of his skull and death
was almost instantaneous. A copper company check for $60
was found on his person. The deceased was a native of
South Carolina. The Great Register shows him to have
been 45 years old.
Francisca Flores
April 16, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Ygnacio Flores reported to Coroner Gray yesterday that
his wife Francisca Siamo Flores had died about 10 o'clock
in the forenoon and that she had no medical attention and
that he would like to have instructions as to how to
proceed with the funeral arrangements without being
later called upon to answer perplexing questions.
Mr. Gray secured a coroner's jury consisting of T.G.
Cree, F.W. Sheridan, Moses Wafer, M.C. Fanner, C.E.
Philes and J.W. Frakes and viewed the remains at the
Flores home in the Irvine Addition. The inquest was
continued to Mr. Gray's office in the afternoon.
The husband of the dead woman, her daughter Lola and
a woman by the name of Maria Antonia, who lives across
the river, were examined. They were all present when
Senora Flores died and all agree that her death was
regular and not unexpected as she had been suffering
intense pain in her chest and had a high fever.
They said the woman had been sick about fifteen days,
but no physician had been summoned for the reason that
they were too poor to pay for such service and until
informed by the coroner did not know that the county
paid a physician to attend such people.
The jury returned a verdict in effect that death was from
natural causes. The dead woman was about 50 years old
and had been married twenty one years.
Matt Flynn
April 3, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Matt Flynn, a resident of Arizona for thirty years,
died last Thursday night at ten o'clock at his
residence on Gila Street. He had only been confined
to his bed about four days and his death was a great
surprise to many of his friends who knew nothing of
the illness. He had lived in Yuma for the past
sixteen years. He was a charter member of the
Benevolent Order of Elks and his funeral conducted
by the order was largely attended. He was 60 years
of age and left a wife and son to mourn his departure.
Sarah Flynn
April 13, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper
The funeral of Miss Sarah C. Flynn was held yesterday
afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Catholic Church. She
came here last August from San Francisco very ill with
consumption and died Friday at the Sisters Hospital.
She was 28 years old and a most estimable young woman.
