MIGUEL RIVERA

12 September 1905

Natural causes, heart trouble

Personnel: Inquest held on 12 September 1905 at Reilly's Undertaking Parlor. Coroner Richey. No jury.

Miguel Rivera, a one-legged barber, who had a shop on South Meyer street, was found dead in a room on an alley off Meyer street at an early hour this morning by Constable Jack Dufton and Policeman Flanagan. Rivera was married and leaves a wife and three children. He had spent the night in company with a young Mexican woman, named Delphina Castro. The woman tried to wake Rivera early this morning and finding that he did not respond to her call, she ran frightened from the room and told an officer. The police found Miguel dead and informed Coroner Richey. The coroner ordered the body removed to Reilly's morgue. County physician H. E. Crepin held an inquest there this morning and reported to the corner that the man had come to his death from heart trouble. The coroner then decided not to summon a jury and the Mexican girl was allowed to go (Tucson Citizen, 12 September 1905, page 4, column 2).

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