CORTEZ, Ramon

Wickenburg (AZ) Sun Friday, September 23, 1932, p 1:5 Jerome News Ramon Cortez, thirty year old Mexican, was found dead in his room on Juarez street here about 6:00 o'clock Thursday morning. Benjamin Vallejo roommate of Cortez found the body. Cortez was last seen about eleven o'clock Wednesday night when he came to his room, mumbling and apparently in an intoxicated condition. Vallejo was unable to sleep inside because Cortez was mumbling and making a noise, so Vallejo arose and moved his bed out on a side porch to sleep for the night, and as he left the room Cortez was lying on the floor. When Vallejo arose Thursday morning he went into the room and found Cortez in exactly the same position as he had last seen him and he began talking to him, but received no response. On close examination he discovered Cortez was dead. Coroner Clyde B Jones, justice of the peace held an inquest at ten o'clock Friday morning, and the jury found that Cortez died of "unknown causes; evidently from heart failure". The jury hearing the case were: J W Weart, C V Drake, Barney Viotti, Louis Gini, E W Ramsey, J G Crowley and Coroner Jones. Cortez was unmarried and he had no immediate relatives here. The body was taken to the Augustine residence here, and burial was made in the Jerome cemetery at 5:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon.