KAY, Raymond E.

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg Arizona February 19, 1971 Reprinted from the Phoenix Gazette, February 16, 1970. Employe who started search arrested – Supervisor Found Slain An employe of a Texas mining survey company who launched a search for his supervisor was arrested on a murder charge after the supervisor was found shot to death. Sheriff’s deputies arrested John E. McNaul, 38, after the body of Raymond E. Kay, 56, was found Saturday at the bottom of an abandoned 92-foot mine shaft. Kay had been shot in the head. Both men were employed by Geochemical Surveys Inc. of Dallas, Tex., and lived in the Wickenburg area. Capt. Ralph McMillen said Kay was the company supervisor in Wickenburg, but McNaul was placed in charge temporarily when Kay went to Mexico. When Kay returned from Mexico last Monday, he resumed his position as supervisor. Questions were then raised concerning McNaul’s expense account, McMIllen said. Last Tuesday, McNaul telephoned Day’s trailer home, said his truck had broken down and asked Kay for help. Later that afternoon, McMillen said, McNaul went to the trailer home and asked Mrs. Kay why her husband did not meet him. She told him her husband had left to help him. Tuesday night, McNaul organized a search for Kay that included use of the company plane. Saturday afternoon blood was found near the entrance of an abandoned mine two miles west of the Vulture Mine. Further investigation led to the discovery of Kay’s body.