LUCERO, Juan

Hassayampa Miner (Wickenburg AZ) Thursday, March 23, 1916, p 1 Juan Lucero, a Mexican well known in and about Congress and Congress Junction, was found dead Monday morning near a little blacksmith shop on a prospect between the road from Congress Junction to the Congress Mine and the Santa Fe Railroad. The body was discovered by two women who occupy the shack named, it being within about a hundred feet of the dead man. The authorities were advised, and Judge McGill, of Congress, took charge, empanelling a jury to investigate the case. Examination showed a cut extending from the right ear to just below the corner of the mouth, a stab wound in the right cheek and another in the throat. The cut was very deep, reaching to the jawbone. The jury was not satisfied with their own consideration of the case, and called on Dr Keith, of Wickenburg for expert testimony. Dr Keith, after examination, stated that in his opinion the wounds were self-inflicted, the wound in the neck penetrating the jugular and causing the hemorrhage which resulted in death. From the best evidence available, it was thought that the man committed the act in a drunken frenzy. The knife with which the deed was accomplished was found loosely clasped in the dead man's hand. Following the opinion of Dr Keith and combined with the fact that there were no evidences of a struggle or any other signs that might in any way indicate murder, the jury brought in a verdict that the deceased came to his death of wounds inflicted by himself.