The grand jury yesterday returned an indictment against H.B.
Crouch for the murder of Abundio Leon about three months
ago. W.E. Price who was also held with Crouch for the
killing of Leon was discharged. According to testimony,
the killing was not premeditated, that Crouch and Price
went into Leon's place with a peaceful purpose and that
the death occurred only when the defendant believed his
own life was in danger.
P.A. LEONARD
Feb. 9, 1894
P.A. Leonard died yesterday morning of consumption after a
residence in the city of about one month. The remains were
embalmed yesterday by W.H. Smith and will be sent back to St.
Joseph Mo. the former home of the deceased. Mr. Leonard was
44 years of age and a native of the province of Alsace-Lorraine.
His wife was with him at the time of his death and his brother,
Dr. P.I. Leonard had arrived only the day before.
JUDGE H.B. Lighthizer
January 3, 1894
Judge H.B. Lighthizer died last night at eight o'clock of
pneumonia after an illness of only four days. The attack
was a virulent one and almost from the first a fatal
termination was feared.
No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral which will
be announced later and which will take place under the
direction of the Masonic order of which he was an honored member.
Judge Lighthizer was born in Illinois on June 15, 1839.
After an academic career at Mt. Morris, Illinois he took
up the study of law at Madison, Wisconsin and was admitted
to the bar there in 1859. On the outbreak of the Civil War
he entered the service from Wisconsin as a second lieutenant.
He served with distinction and at the close retired with
the rank of captain. He afterward practiced law at St.
Louis. He came to Arizona in 1879 and has since been
identified with the social and political affairs of the
territory. His last public position was that of secretary
of the board of railroad commissioners and at the time of
his death was a candidate for judge of the second judicial
district. He was high in the Grand Army of the Republic
and the Masonic fraternity.
His untimely death is mourned by a wife to whom the sympathy
of the members of the territorial bar and Judge Lighthizer's
hosts of friends goes out.
BEN LINDENBAUM
August 3, 1894
Prescott--Ben Lindenbaum, one of the oldest residents of
Prescott, committed suicide this morning by shooting himself
through the head. Ill health and heavy drinking were the
cause. The deceased was seventy six years old.
JAMES W. McCARROLL
July 31, 1894
The body of James W. McCarroll who died at Mesa recently and
was buried there was exhumed yesterday by Randall and
Davis and shipped to the former home of McCarroll at
Antoneta, Colorado. A copy of the letters of administration
upon his estate in this county was recorded yesterday.
MR. BILL McDONALD
WILLIAM Rogers
May 15, 1894
Two more prospectors have gone to swell the list of those
who have abandoned the hunt for gold to fall down on the
burning sand of an Arizona desert and die. The bodies were
found within a dozen miles of Cullen's Well last Saturday.
A letter was received at the sheriff's office yesterday
from John Drew, station keeper at the wells notifying the
authorities of the ghastly discovery. The letter also
contained a memo book found on one of the bodies,
containing brief information concerning the dying writer
and his partner:
"I am William Rogers, a native of Cornwall. My father is
William Rogers of Churchtown, Cornwall. Goodbye. I am dying
of thirst. My partner, Bill McDonald has left me to go on to
Harqua Hala."
It was also discovered from papers in his pocket that Rogers
was a member of the order of Sons of St. George and had
recently come form Helena Montana. Directions were also
given concerning his trunk. The body of McDonald was
found four miles from the wells.
The station keeper's letter was not profuse. It only stated
that the bodies had been found and that a man had been sent
out from the wells to bury them. It was supposed that
death came last Thursday. An inquiry here failed to
discover anyone who remembered that any prospectors of
those names had lately been in Phoenix and it is supposed
that they had gone from Prescott. Cullen's Wells are about
eighty miles from Prescott so that if Rogers and
McDonald were on their way from the north to the
Harqua Hala by the way of Vulture they should have reached
the vicinity in which their bodies were found.
HENRY McKEOWN
October 26, 1894
Prescott--Henry McKeown a prominent citizen of Walnut Grove,
thirty miles from here was shot and killed last night by Homer
Campbell, a young cowboy. Particulars of the tragedy have not
yet been learned.
October 28, 1894
Homer "Italy" Campbell, the young cowboy who killed Harry
McKeown at Walnut Grove last Thursday is well known by
Marshal Molloy. Campbell comes of a good family but was
himself wild and reckless. He is the nephew of Newton
Herrick who accidentally shot and killed himself at his
residence on the corner of Jefferson Street and Second
Avenue in Phoenix two years ago.
MICHAEL MCMILLAN
Feb. 9, 1894
Tucson--A special to the Star from Lordsburg says that
yesterday Michael McMillan, captain of a gang of tramps,
was shot and fatally wounded by Frank Deal, a Southern
Pacific brakeman. McMillan and his crowd attempted to board
a westbound freight train at that point and Conductor Hibbs
ordered them to keep off. McMillan thereupon drew a pistol
and started toward Hibbs. Before he had proceeded five feet
Brakeman Deal seized a shotgun and filled the tramp's back
with buckshot. McMillan died in about three hours.
MRS. SNYDOR McNAIR
June 6, 1894
Mrs. Sydnor McNair died at 6:30 yesterday evening after an
illness of one week. Her ailment was a disease of the liver
though its exact character was obscure. Yesterday she
appeared to have greatly improved. The deceased has
resided in Phoenix about one year. Besides her sorrowing
husband she leaves three small children. The funeral
will take place at 11 o'clock today under the direction of
Randal and Davis from the family residence.
June 7, 1894
The funeral of Mrs. Sydnor McNair occurred yesterday at
11am from the family residence on the Black Canyon Road.
The sad rites were performed by Rev. G.L. Pearson of the
Washington Street M.E. Church.
McNair Baby
June 14, 1894
A five weeks old baby of Mr. Sydnor McNair died yesterday
morning of congestion of the lungs and was buried yesterday
afternoon. Mr. McNair's wife died a little more than a
week ago. His many friends deeply sympathize with him in
this series of afflictions.
BABY McWILLIAMS
Jan. 28, 1894
Thomas, the two year old baby of J.P. and Lulu McWilliams,
died yesterday after an illness of less than twenty four
hours. The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock this
afternoon from the family residence on east Jackson
street. The little boy had been as well as usual until
1 o'clock on Friday. The cause of his illness baffled
the physician in charge.
MRS SARAH MALBY
April 21, 1894
Mrs. Sarah Malby died yesterday morning at home in Montgomery's
Addition. she had been ill several days and her condition
became so serious that her husband, Sgt. Walter Malby of
the commissary department at Fort Huachua was sent for.
He reached here the day before her death. The deceased
was 32 years of age. Three children are left motherless.
