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TERRITORY OF ARIZONA Springerville, A.T.
SS The People of the Territory of Arizona send Greetings:
To W.S. Atchison, A.J. Cooper, J.V. Brighton, A. Long, Gustav Becker, Justinano Baca, P.H. Snow, Elisha Everett, and A.A. DeWitt.
We command you, that all and singular business and excuses being laid aside, you be and appear before the undersigned, Acting Coroner of the Precinct of Springerville, County of Apache, Territory of Arizona, at West and Brighton's Saloon on the 25th day of December, 1886, at two o'clock P.M. then and there to serve as Juror's in a certain Inquisition now pending before said Coroner, and herein fail not, or answer to the contrary at your peril.
The People of the Territory of Arizona send Greetings: To John Cook, Luther Martin, Eugene Singleton, Chas. A. Wood, Wm. Wood, J.W. Graham, Simeon Davis, J.W. Talbott, Geo. G. Graham and Jas. R. Woolsey and Elisha Everett. We command you, that all and singular business and excuses being laid aside, you be and appear before the undersigned, Acting Coroner of the Precinct of Springerville, at West and Brighton's Saloon, in Springerville, at two o'clock P.M. then and there, to testify and give evidence in a certain Inquisition now pending before said Coroner, and herein fail not, or answer to the contrary at your peril.
I hereby certify that I served the witness's summons on the twenty fifth day of December, 1886, on W.S. Atchison, A.J. Cooper, J.V. Brighton, Anthony Long, Gustav Becker, Justinano Baca, P.H. Snow, Elisha Everett and A.A. DeWitt, being the Jurymen named in said Summons, at the County of Apache, by showing said Summons to each Jurymen personally, and informing each of them of the contents thereof.
This is to certify that I served the written subponea on the twenty fifth day of December, 1886, on John Cook, Luther Martin, Eugene Singleton, Chas. A. Wood, Wm. Wood, J.W. Graham, Simeon Davis, J.W. Talbott, Geo. G. Graham, J.R. Woolsey and Elisha Everett, being the witness's named in said subponea, at the County of Apache, by showing the original to each of said witness's. personally, and informing each of them of the contents thereof.
DUPLICATE PAPERS In the matter of an Inquisition held upon the body of James Hale deceased, on the 25th day of December, 1886. The original papers in this matter were stolen on the evening of Dec. 26th, 1886.
In the Justice Court, Springerville Precinct, County of Apache, Territory of Arizona. In the matter of the Inquisition upon the body of James Hale, before John T. Hogue, Justice of the Peace and Acting Coroner. On the 25th day of December, 1886, I, John T. Hogue, Justice of the Peace, received information that one James Hale had been shot. I immediately summoned a Coroner's Jury under the provisions of the Statute authorizing a Justice of the Peace to act as Coroner. The following Jury was empanelled to-wit: A.A. DeWitt, W.S. Atchison, A.J. Cooper,J.V. Brighton, Anthony Long, Gustav Becker, Justinano Baca, P.H. Snow and Elisha Everett. After said Jury had been duly sworn according to Law they proceeded to inspect the body of deceased, James Hale, and ascertained that deceased had been shot with a gun or pistol of (44) forty-four caliber, the ball entering about four inches below the nipple of the right breast and ranging a little downward and lodging just under the skin about four inches under the left shoulder blade. The ball was cut out by one of the Jurymen and found to be of (44) caliber. After completing the inspection of the body, the Jury proceeded to examine the following witnesses, Viz: John Cook, Luther Martin, Eugene Singleton, Chas. A. Wood, William Wood. J.W. Graham, Simeon Davis, J.W. Talbott, Geo. G. Graham, Jas. R. Woolsey and Elisha Everett. After hearing the conflicting testimony of the aboved named witness's, the Coroner's Jury rendered the following verdict, to wit: DUPLICATE We the undersigned, The Jurors summoned to appear before John T. Hogue, the Acting Coroner of the Precinct of Springerville, on the twenty fifth day of December, 1886, to inquire into the cause of the death of James Hale, having been duly sworn according to law, and having made such Inquisition, after inspecting the body, and hearing the testimony adduced, upon our oaths, each and all do say, that we find the deceased was named James Hale, was a native of the United States, aged about fifty nine years, that he came to his death on the twenty fifth day of December, 1886, in this County, by a gun or pistol shot wound by the hand of some person, to the Jury unknown. All of which we duly certify by this Inquisition in writing by us signed, this twenty fifth day of December, 1886.
I, John T. Hogue, Acting Coroner of the County of Apache, Territory of Arizona, do hereby certify that I held an Inquisition upon the body of James Hale, a native of the United States, aged fifty nine years, at West and Brighton's Saloon in the town of Springerville, on the twenty fifth day of December, 1886. Verdict of the Jury: Death from a gun or pistol shot wound by the hand of some person, to the Jury unknown. And I further certify, that I caused to be interred his body at the Cemetery near Amity, in said County of Apache, on the twenty seventh day of December, 1886.
Office of the Justice of the Peace Acting Coroner of the County of Apache, Territory of Arizona. This is to certify that while I, John T. Hogue, Justice of the Peace and Acting Coroner was absent from my office, at supper, on Sunday evening, December 26th, 1886. All the depositions taken before the coroner's Jury, the verdict of the Jury and the Certificate of Death in the matter of the Inquisition upon the body of James Hale, deceased, were stolen off the table in my office by some person or persons to me unknown. For this reason the evidence adduced at said Inquisition will not be found among the papers in this matter here with forwarded.
Jack Becker's note: J. R. Woolsey was a son-in-law of James Hale.
From the files of Jack A. Becker. |
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