Raymond Spencer
Arizona Republican Newspaper
November 2, 1905
Raymond Spencer was found dead yesterday morning at the
Star Lodging House. Acting Coroner Burnett was notified
and an inquest was held resulting in the finding that
death was the result of tuberculosis of which Spencer
had long been a sufferer. He was thirty five years of
age and came here from Redondo, California. He had been
conducting a restaurant in the Gregory House. His
relatives were at once notified of his death by wire.
J.B. STETSON
Arizona Republican Newspaper
May 20, 1905
J.B. Stetson fell out of a window on the third floor of the
Santa Rita Hotel in Tucson about 4 o'clock this afternoon and
broke his neck.
Mr. Stetson was superintendent of the Santa Rita Placer Mining
Company whose operations are near Greaterville, south of Tucson.
He came to Tucson today expecting to meet here tomorrow the
directors of the company. About 3 o'clock this afternoon he
went to his room and about an hour afterward a guest of the
hotel who has apartments on the second floor, saw the body of
Stetson pass by his window in its drop to the earth. He was
well known in Tucson and is survived by a wife who is at the mine.
James Stevenson
September 7, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Another tragedy in Kingman was the killing of James
Stevenson, a foreman at the famous Gold Road Mine, by
John Fitzpatrick, a discharged miner. The latter
claimed he had been badly treated and meeting Stevenson
struck him, a fight ensuing in which Stevenson got the
worst of it. It is claimed he then threatened the life
of Fitzpatrick and when they met again both were armed
but Fitzpatrick was the more handy with the gun else
there was something the matter with his antagonists weapon.
Fitzpatrick was held to the Grand Jury under a bond of
$2500 but was taken to Prescott to appear in habeas
corpus proceedings. It is understood that Judge Sloan
was ill and Sheriff Harris returned to Kingman with
his prisoner.
Mrs. Humphrey Sullivan
November 17, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
The murder of Mrs. Humphrey Sullivan near Tucson has
brought out a former husband from whom she had never
been divorced, who lived less than a hundred miles
away and knew of the second marriage of his wife.
Says the Tucson Citizen:
It was learned today that the woman who was murdered
on the Sullivan Ranch last week was Mrs. Phil Naugle,
although she went under the name of Mrs. Humphrey Sullivan.
The murdered woman was twice married, although she never
secured a divorce from her first husband. The first
husband, Phil Naugle arrived in Tucson this morning
from Florence. The first intimation of the murder
that he received was from a Tucson newspaper, which
he happened to glance at casually in Florence. He
immediately decided t come here to look after the
estate. He does not care about the property for
himself, but is willing to look after the interests
of his former wife's relatives in California.
Naugle lived here about five years ago and was employed
by several local contractors as a carpenter. He bought
the Sullivan Ranch wit the expectation of starting a
dairy. He gave a mortgage on the property and later
turned the ranch over to his wife who agreed to assume
the mortgage. Mrs. Naugle first met Humphrey Sullivan
in a business transaction. Sullivan furnished Mrs.
Naugle with enough money to pay off the mortgage on
the ranch.
Sullivan and Mrs. Naugle became very friendly and
Naugle, noting how his domestic affairs were going,
decided to leave. He packed his belongings and
quietly left Tucson for Florence. He is a quiet,
sober, industrious mechanic and has since worked at
his trade as a carpenter in Florence. Sullivan and
Mrs. Naugle were married shortly after Naugle left,
securing a marriage license here in Tucson. They
afterward lived on the Sullivan Ranch. They quarreled
frequently and the ownership of the ranch passed from
the woman to Sullivan and back again.
During all this time the woman knew the whereabouts of her
real husband and frequently wrote him. In her letters she
complained of the brutal treatment accorded her by
Sullivan. She declared about a month ago that she
would not again live with Sullivan. Sullivan got into
trouble about a year ago by cashing some worthless
checks. He disappeared but later returned to the ranch
and lived in a tent hidden in the sage brush.
Sullivan became bolder and finally came down town. He
was here the night of the Eagles smoker--October 24.
He remained out drinking nearly all night and it is
presumed quarreled with his wife, when he arrived home
in the morning. He was downtown again the next day but
from what can be learned he was not seen again. Naugle
believes that Sullivan is the murderer of the woman and
this belief is shared by the officers.
More on the case
November 17, 1905
A friend of Humphrey Sullivan, charged by the coroner's jury
with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Lola Sullivan stated
that he was fully convinced that Sullivan would never
show up alive, says the Tucson Star. He said he was
with them until late the last night Sullivan was in
Tucson; that several times during their conversation
Sullivan took a phial of strychnine out of his pocket
and nervously held it up. He said that he believed
that Sullivan had fully determined committing suicide,
as his actions and conversation during the day
indicated it. That same day Sullivan went down to
Benson returning that afternoon. It is believed that
he intended to commit suicide at Benson but for some
reason his nerve failed him and he returned to Tucson.
B.M. LANTRY
December 9, 1895
B.M. Lantry is dead, passing away Saturday in his home in
Strong City, Kansas. He leaves a very considerable property
to his two sons, Henry and Charles, who are best known in
Arizona through their connection with the construction of
the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway. with the
exception of a few miles at the farther end, almost every
shovel of dirt turned upon the whole road was by employees
of B.M. Lantry and Sons. The deceased is the senior member
of the firm and is thus of especial local importance.
MATTHEW LAZELLE
November 24, 1895
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Will Hill arrived in Phoenix yesterday from the Humbug mining
district. He reports that on last Tuesday morning an old man
named Matthew Lezelle was fund dead on Sand Creek about two
miles from Carson's mining Camp. He was an old prospector
and made his living by placer mining in the creek where he
was found dead. His body was discovered by Arnold Wallock,
who camped near him. The body was lying face downward in
the sand and had no shoes on. Arnold had seen him the previous
evening in his tent and at the time he complained of feeling
ill. The next morning he found the dead body as stated. His
tent was about thirty yards from where he lay in the ditch
and everything in the tent was topsy turvey. Several people
who examined the body came to the conclusion from the looks
of the tent that the old man had been seized with an
epileptic fit and had crawled to the creek where he was
found. Taking it for granted that such was the case
they buried him without the formality of a coroner's
inquest. Six dollars in gold dust was found on his person
and turned over to Justice Farley.
J.S. LOOSE
Arizona Republican Newspaper
January 21, 1895
J.S. Loose, a young man whose home was at Osage, Minn. died
of consumption at Professor Lamson's residence on north center
Street on Saturday night. He had been in the city only three
weeks. He was a distant relative of Professor Lamson's.
JAMES T. LYNCH
September 12, 1895
Arizona Republican Newspaper
News was brought to the city yesterday morning that James T.
Lynch, a farmer, living fourteen miles west of the city, on
the Isaacs Road, had been killed by being dragged to death.
Coroner Johnstone, as soon as the news arrived, impaneled a
jury and sent them to examine the remains. They returned in
the afternoon with the remains. The body was a most horrible
sight.
The jury learned from their investigation that about 6 o'clock
yesterday morning Lynch went into his pasture to get a horse
to use on his plow. The animal was fractious and he only
succeeded in catching him after a hard chase. When leading
the horse to the house the animal jumped forward and started
to run away. The rope in some manner took a half hitch
around Lynch's left wrist and he was jerked to the ground
and dragged across the field and back. Ed Tyler, a man
in Lynch's employ saw the accident and took frantically
after the horse. He succeeded in stopping the animal
after it had twice made the circuit of the pasture,
making a distance of about a half of a mile that the
man had been dragged.
The deceased was a native of Wisconsin and was 40 years of
age. He was unmarried and the only relative he is known to
have was a brother who is superintendent of the public
schools in Milwaukee.
The funeral of the deceased will be held this morning at
10 o'clock from Randal and Davis undertaking rooms.
