MRS. FRED WARREN
Arizona Republican Newspaper
April 1, 1905
Mrs. Fred Warren died last night at 11:30 o'clock at the
family residence No. 1412 West Washington Street. Mrs.
Warren had been ill but little over a week and the news
of her death will be a shock to her many friends, though
her illness was mentioned in these columns a few days ago.
Mrs. Warren had lived in Phoenix and Tempe for a great many
years and has a wide circle of acquaintances and friends.
Previous to her marriage a few years ago she was known as
Miss Bessie Reynolds. Announcement of funeral arrangements
will probably be made later.
In Memoriam of Mrs. Fred Warren
April 2, 1905
At 11:30 p.m. on March 31, 1905 the angel of death entered
the happy home of our friend and fellow townsman Mr. Fred
Warren and took there from its choicest flower. Mrs. Warren
whose early death we deeply deplore, was born in England
thirty five years ago. At the age of three years, in company
with her parents she moved to Chicago Illinois where her
early childhood was spent until 1886 when the family moved
to Arizona where they have resided ever since. About eight
or nine years ago Mrs. Warren graduated from the Lamson
Business College of this city. Shortly afterward she was
united in marriage with Mr. Warren. Their married life
has been one of pleasure and few, if any, clouds darkened
their pleasant home. Only a few days ago Mrs. Warren was
taken violently ill and although she had everything that
medical skill could suggest and that kind and loving hands
could do, still she grew worse and just as the first April
morn was about to be ushered in her soul took its flight
to that land where pain and suffering is unknown and where
love and harmony shall reign forever. Bessie, as she was
called by her neighbors and friends, was one of the noblest
of women. To know her was to love her. Possessed of a
sunny and cheerful disposition she naturally made friends
of all with whom she came in contact. The sympathy of
this community goes out to the bereaved ones and especially
to the lonely mother and the bereaved husband who so early
in life has been bereft of the woman of his choice.
Funeral of Mrs. Warren
April 2, 1905
The funeral of Mrs. Fred Warren whose death was announced
yesterday morning will take place this afternoon at 3
o'clock from the family residence at 1412 West Washington
Street. The service will be under the auspices of the
Rathbone Sisters. The eagles of which Mr. Warren is a
member will attend.
I.T. Watts
November 25, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
When James Morris, who is employed at the ranch of Dan
McDermott, five miles west of the city on the Yuma Road,
entered the corral of the ranch yesterday morning he saw
something that turned him sick with horror. In one of
the stalls was a horse hitched to a cart and in the cart
with his head wedged between the side of the vehicle and
the wheel, lay the body of the ranch foreman, Isaac W.
Watts. Morris saw a great hole in the right side of Watt's
head. Morris did not disengage the body but sent to town
for the authorities.
Acting Coroner Burnett summoned a jury composed of N.C.
Webster, D.R. Smith, W.J. Ferris, H.C. McDonald, C.H.
Dunlap and W.A. McDaniels and went out to the ranch.
In order to remove the body from the cart it was necessary
to take the wheel off. How Watt had met with death was
evident. He had fallen with his head against the wheel
and the constant revolution had eaten into the brain.
There was thought at first one puzzling circumstance but
against that was a very likely theory. In the position
in which the man lay the wheel did not touch the wound
and several spokes on the opposite wheel were missing
and others covered with blood. It therefore became
reasonably plain that Watts had fallen first against
that wheel and that the cart had been partly overturned,
after the infliction of the wound and that when it went
back into an upright position the man who was now dead
had been thrown to the other side of the vehicle.
This theory however was not first accepted by all the
members of the jury. Some of them suspected foul play,
the suspicion being strengthened by the discovery of a
clot of blood on the horse. The dead man's hat was gone
as was also one shoe and sock. They had been torn off by
the wheel on the other side of the cart.
After having made these observations, the jury returned to
town and adjourned to meet again at 2 in the afternoon to
return a verdict. In the meantime a man was sent to
follow the buggy back to town, to look for the missing
spokes , the hat and the shoes and to find the place
where the cart might have run off a culvert or embankment
and have been overturned.
All that is definitely known of the affair is this:
Watts came to town on Thursday afternoon and left about
6 o'clock in the evening. He had spent the most of his
time about saloons and when just before leaving he called
at the Wakelin Grocer Company to get some goods he had
purchased, he was very much intoxicated. He could not
get into his cart alone but was helped in. He said that
he could get along without further help and drove off
toward the north. He was watched until he passed Adams
Street.
The next information which came to the jury was furnished
by Mrs. Joseph Bush. She said that while driving toward
town on the Yuma Road she met a horse and a cart between
the Lutgerding and Christy ranches. She only observed at
the time that there was no one in the cart but she afterward
remembered that she saw something hanging down behind.
Until this time it had been the theory that Watts had
started home by the way of Five Points but traces of
blood could be found only between his home and a road
which leaves the Yuma Road just beyond the ranch of O.H.
Christy. It was later shown by two motormen on the
Washington Street line that Watts did not go by way of
Five Points. One of them said that between seven and
eight o'clock in the evening he saw a horse and cart
going west between Seventh and Eighth Avenues and the
motorman of another car said that he saw evidently the
same vehicle at Thirteenth Avenue headed west.
The horse, a gentle and reliable animal, knew where he
was going for when he reached the McDermott ranch he
went to the corral and wound in and out among a series
of posts until he came to his own stall which he entered.
E.E. Patton who keeps a store at Tenth Avenue and
Washington Street, telephoned the Republican office
last night that the evening before he saw a cart and
horse without a driver pass along the street west. He
heard something clicking as if striking a wheel. Some
boys who were playing in the street afterward told Mr.
Patton that there was a man lying in the cart and they
tried to catch the horse, which at that time was
walking. On the approach of the boys, the horse broke
into a trot.
The horse and cart were seen going north on center
Street and in various parts of town. One man reported
that he had seen the outfit on South Seventh Avenue.
Another witness came to the sheriff's office last night
with a story which develops a new theory. He said that
between seven and eight he saw a horse and cart going
north on South Seventh Avenue. There was something
hanging from the back of the cart which he thought was
a lap robe. He went to the O.K. Store sough of the
railroad track and inquired if anyone had lost a horse
and cart.
Watt was thirty one and a native of Kansas. He was
married and had two children. The funeral will take
place this afternoon from the undertaking parlors of
Easterling and Whitney.
Death Still a Mystery
November 26, 1905
The coroner's jury in the inquest on the body of I.T.
Watts was unable yesterday to reach a definite verdict.
It merely fond that Watts had come to his death by a
wound in the head inflicted in a manner unknown.
One of the spokes was found on Friday evening on the
Yuma Road near the residence of F.H. Parker. The other
two were found yesterday morning this side of the
capitol building. The missing hat of the dead man
was not recovered, though Dan McDermott has offered a
reward for it. The missing shoe has not been found.
There is a bare suspicion in the minds of some of the
jury that death might have been caused by foul play but
no motive has been suggested. It certainly could not
have been robbery. When Watt left home on Thursday he
only only one dollar. When he ws found his pocketbook
was in his pocket as were his watch, his knife and
handkerchief. He could not have engaged in a quarrel
for when he was last seen alive he was too far gone
with intoxication for that.
The funeral of Watts took place yesterday afternoon from
Easterling and Whitney and was attended by a large
number of friends and neighbors. He had many friends
and was regarded as a good neighbors. He had the one
fatal weakness yet many of his acquaintances were
unaware of it.
