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 WILLIAM L. SLOAN 21 October 1869 Suicide, gunshot William Sloan was 40-years-old, a native of Ohio. He was working as a gambler in Tucson. He committed suicide with a pistol shot in the head. The inquest had two witnesses (no testimony survives). “SUICIDE:- On Wednesday evening, Mr. Sloan, a gambler, and for some years past a resident of Tucson- committed suicide. During two weeks, immediately preceding the event, he had been suffering from attacks of intermittent fever, and upon the evening named was confined by sickness to his bed. In this condition he requested a young man present to bring the doctor to his room, and no sooner was he thus left alone than he seized his pistol and discharged its contents into his head. His friend, hearing the report of the pistol, returned immediately to the room where he found the victim already in the agonies of death, the bullet having entered above the right ear and penetrated the brain. Mr. Sloan, from some accident through life, became terr
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 LEWIS ANTHONY September 1869 Homicide Macario Andrada was arrested for the murder of Anthony. FLORENCE AGAIN:- The people at this interesting settlement are going to ruin for a little gallows practice. How long they have determined to keep up this killing of each other it is really painful to surmise. Thus far, however, it is kept up with the most terrible regularity. Here is the latest from that neighborhood: Lewis ANTHONY was murdered in his own house on Thursday, the 9th inst., by a party of Mexicans. As yet no arrests have been made. Sources: (Pima County, Arizona records 1864-1923, AZ 83, Box 2, 1870 demands folder, University of Arizona Special Collections); The Weekly Arizonan, 25 September 1869, page 3, column 1
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 JOSE MARIA PASAS 17 July 1869 Personnel: Coroner Charles Meyer. Meyer held an inquest for the death of Jose Maria Pasos or Tasos (no testimony survives). He was 23-years-old and was married to Maria Smith. He was buried on 18 July 1869 at San Xavier del Bac. Sources: Pima County, Arizona records 1864-1923, AZ 83, Box 2, 1869 demands folder, University of Arizona Special Collections; Tucson Catholic Diocese Burial Records, page 33 left side.
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 DAN BRAINERD/BRANNARD 1869 (before 5 July) Homicide, gunshot Daniel Brainerd (or Brannard) was 30 years old and a native of Missouri. He was working as a laborer. He was murdered by a pistol shot. The mortality census states he died in Tucson while a Pima County receipt states it was on the Gila [River].  Sources: Pima County, Arizona records 1864-1923, AZ 83, Box 2, 1869 demands folder, University of Arizona Special Collections; 1870 census, Mortality schedule, AZ Territory, Pima, Tucson, page 4, line 15.
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 ABUNDIA QUINTRO 21 June 1869 Personnel: Coroner Lesley B. Wooster of Tubac.  Eight witnesses were called to testify (testimony has been lost). Source: Pima County, Arizona records 1864-1923, AZ 83, Box 2, 1869 demands folder, University of Arizona Special Collections.
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 GABRIEL YRIGOYEN 24 May 1869 Personnel: Coroner Charles Meyers. Five  witnesses testified (testimony has been lost).       Tucson Catholic Diocese records list Gabriel Yrigoyen, son of Luis Yrigoyen and [unnamed wife], who was buried on 25 May 1869. Sources: Pima County, Arizona records 1864-1923, AZ 83, Box 2, 1869 demands folder, University of Arizona Special Collections; Tucson Catholic Diocese Burial Records, page 32 right side.
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 MERMIN???? TERAN 5 May 1869 Personnel: Coroner Charles Meyers (testimony has been lost). Source: Pima County, Arizona records 1864-1923, AZ 83, Box 2, 1869 demands folder, University of Arizona Special Collections.
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