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Osten Nelson

Posted 2008-11-15 by Sharon
The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ
October 6, 1939, p. 1

PHOENIX MAN IS FOUND DEAD

The body of a man identified by Howard Carter, deputy sheriff, as Osten Nelson, about 55 years old, Phoenix, was found Wednesday in a parked ear eight miles south of here in the desert.

A coroner's jury decided he died natural death probably from a heart attack. He had been dead approximately two months.

Carter, said Nelson, identified through papers found on his person, was a prospector.

The body was taken to Prescott where funeral arrangements were being made.




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