DANIEL MURPHY
Arizona Republican Newspaper
May 28, 1895
The funeral of Daniel Murphy, who died at the Gregory house on Saturday evening,
took place at 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon from the Randal and Davis undertaking
rooms. A son of the deceased arrived on Saturday morning and was the only relative
present at the funeral.
RED NELSON
Arizona Republican Newspaper
August 4, 1895
"Red" Nelson, the aeronaut, is dead. The end came to him yesterday afternoon.
It was painless for in the forty five hours after his awful fall he never recovered
consciousness.
It was not believed in the beginning that he would get well, though twenty four
hours afterward there was a hope and even a belief that the injuries were not
fatal. That night he began vomiting blood and that was a sign that he would
die. He also betrayed restlessness but yesterday morning he was quiet. The
remains were taken to Randal and Davis' undertaking rooms whence they will
be given a decent burial at 2 o'clock today.
The expenses will be paid by the proprietor of the merry-go-round, from whose
place the ascent was made. All day tomorrow and tomorrow night, the merry go
round will run to pay the expenses of the dead aeronaut and for the relief
of his injured partner, Otto Burke.
Just how Nelson was killed cannot be known. That night it was supposed that his
injuries were received in falling from the building on which he dropped from the
parachute. It was supposed too that they might have been sustained when he fell
upon the building for the occupants below said the contact sounded like the
explosion of a cannon.
Then also the parachute had fallen on another building half a block away. If it
could have been wafted by the light breeze, that far after Nelson let go the bar;
he must have separated from it at a dizzy height. It is believed from his
unconscious moaning that he did not let go under a misapprehension in the darkness
that he was near the ground. He kept saying "Give me a clear fall and I'll make
it all right." Then he would murmur, "No, I can't hold on; I'm too tired."
He must have been tired for he had worked hard all afternoon about the balloon
and only undertook the perilous ascent after his partner was injured, to prove
to unreasonable and heartless persons in the crowd that the show was no fake.
Dreadful as the fall was not a bone was broken, but the body was bruised over half
its surface. There was a ugly cut on the jaw and another near the left eye. But
the tissues were so thoroughly crushed that the undertaker was hardly able to find
a vein into which to inject the embalming fluid.
Nelson was about 30 years old and was born in York, Pennsylvania. He went
to California in 1886. So far as he knew he had no relatives living. He and
Burke came to Arizona two months ago and to Phoenix nearly a month since. Ever
since they have been in the territory they have been persistently pursued by bad
luck and it may interest superstitious folks to learn that Nelson's last and fatal
ascent was his thirteenth.
Burke is not frightened by his partner's fate. He said last night he would
continue in the balloon business; but not in this locality. And he added:
"I expect that the same thing that happened to Red will sometime happen to me."
LEWIS O'DELL
December 12, 1895
Lewis O'Dell, a young man 24 years of age, died at the Lemon
Hotel Tuesday night of consumption. He came here a month ago
from Philadelphia, but the disease had too firm a hold on him
to admist of anything but a temporary relief in his case.
The remains will be shipped to Philadelphia for interment.
MAJOR E.C. OSBORNE
Arizona Republican Newspaper
January 24, 1895
The body of Major E.C. Osborne, late clerk at the Sacaton Indian agency, was received
here yesterday morning. The remains were attended by the widow and Indian Agent
Young. The funeral took place at half past two from Randal and Davis.
MRS. PEARSE
Arizona Republican Newspaper
October 1, 1895
Mrs. Pearse died Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. She was 83 years of age and the
mother of Mrs. Shiek and Fire Chief Julius Pearse of Denver. Chief Pearse will
arrive on the morning train and will take the remains of his mother back to
Denver for interment.
JOE PETERSON
August 13, 1895
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Mesa was the scene of another boiler explosion Saturday afternoon. The accident
did not occur in Mesa but at the ranch of Charles Peterson, two miles east of
town.
The threshing outfit of the Lewis Brothers wren on their last work before closing
the season and , in fact had just gotten through and the horses already hitched
to the engine preparatory to hauling it from the place.
Joe Peterson, a lad nine years of age, was standing near and requested permission
to place two sticks of wood remaining on the tender, into the fire box.
Permission was given and the lad had hardly placed the wood before a most
terrific explosion occurred. The boy was sent rolling along the ground from
a distance of 120 feet. Several men were standing in front of the engine when
the explosion but were saved from injury by the horses hitched to the engine.
As soon as the escaping steam and dust settled, young Peterson was noticed
lying on the ground some distance away in an unconscious condition. Dr. Hughes
of this city, was sent for by telephone. He hastened at once to the scene but
the boy was beyond human aid. He died at 4 o'clock Sunday morning and his
funeral occurred the same night.
MRS. MOLLIE L. POOLE
Arizona Republican Newspaper
June 16, 1895
Mrs. Mollie L. Poole died at the residence of her husband ten miles east of Phoenix
on Thursday night at 5 o'clock. The funeral occurred in Phoenix on Friday afternoon.
The deceased was born October 27, 1865 in Carroll County, Mo. She leaves beside her
sorrowing husband six children, the eldest fourteen years and the youngest two years
and six months. The Lexington, Mo. Intelligencer and the Norborne, Mo. papers
are requested to announce the death.
WILLIAM. PRICE
Arizona Republican Newspaper
January 4, 1895
Price and Young have been captured. There was a desperate fight and Price will
possibly not be able to fill the date set for him by judge Baker. A bullet has
probably cheated the gallows. All the particulars so far received of the capture
are embraced in the following received at the sheriff's office last night. "Have
got Price and Young. Price will die. Young's leg is broken and my arm is
broken." Prothero.
Yesterday Sheriff Murphy received a letter from Deputy Prothero written before he
left Gila Bend on the second chase, asking him to procure requisition papers.
He evidently thought at that time that he would be unable to overtake the outlaws
this side of the Mexican line. The fact, though, that results have been obtained
so quickly leads to the supposition that the officers overtook them on the desert
this side of Ajo hunting for water.
The exact time and place of the capture was not known yesterday but it occurred
probably on Wednesday near the Ajo Mine sixty five miles south of Gila Bend.
Deputy Prothero, Billy Moore and Bill Kellogg, who left Gila Bend on Monday
night in a buck board with water and food and three saddle horses, pushed
southward all night.
January 5, 1895
If the Maricopa and Phoenix train is on time this morning, the dead body of Price,
the murderer, will be placed in his cell in the county jail within days and eleven
nights, almost to the hour of the time when his live body went out. The escape was
effected about five o'clock on the afternoon of Christmas.
Details are scarce, About noon yesterday another dispatch was received from Gila
Bend in which it was stated that the wagon sent out to meet the wounded captives
had returned and that Price was dead. Ex-Sheriff Murphy and Billy Widmer, were
solicitous concerning the character of deputy Prothero's wound and they wired him
twice inquiring about it.
January 6, 1895
It was a weird possession which left the Maricopa and Phoenix train yesterday shortly
before daybreak and marched to the courthouse. In a rough box was carried the body
of William Price, the dead murderer. Following on a litter was Jim Young, the
counterfeiter, whose knee had been shattered by a ball from a Winchester. In a
cab rode Deputy Frank Prothero, who, assisted by Billy Moore, Bill Kellogg and
Tommy Childs, had effected the capture of the outlaws.
The murderer lay in horrible state all forenoon until the middle of the afternoon
in the jail yard. The corpse was viewed by hundreds.
