MURRAY, James

Arizona Journal - Miner, Prescott, Arizona Tuesday, April 12, 1904 James Murray Drops Dead - On the Floor In Wilson's Saloon Death Caused by Heart Clot - Deceased Was An Old Time Railroad Employee Between one and two o'clock this afternoon a number of fellows went into the saloon owned by Mr. Wilson on Cortez Street, and invited two or three men who were sitting in the place to come and have a drink with them. They all started for the bar but one of them, a well-known character all over the territory, by the name of James Murray, who attempted to get out of the chair when he fell to the floor. Two or three men hurriedly picked him up and found that he was dead. Dr. Day, the health officer, and Justice of the Peace Talbot, were sent for at once. When the doctor arrived he pronounced death to have been caused by a clot of blood in the heart. A coroner's jury was impaneled and returned a verdict to the above effect. The deceased was a native of Ireland and about 68 years of age. He came to Tombstone, Arizona, from Kentucky about 25 years ago and has been in the employee of the Santa Fe railroad as a laborer for nearly 20 years. He had no relatives anyone knows anything about, and had always spent his money just as fast as he made it, and consequently death found him penniless. After the inquest his remains were turned over to undertaker Logan for burial.