BRYAN, George W.

News-Herald (Wickenburg AZ) Saturday, January 11, 1902, p 1 George Bryan Murdered The Last of the Cattle Barons of this Section Ruthlessly Slain Last Saturday, five miles south of Gilbert, George W. Bryan, one of the last cattlemen to remain in this section, was murdered at his cabin, supposedly by William Connors, a man with an unquenchable desire to be known as a "bad man." Connors was arrested Tuesday by Deputy Sheriffs Johns and Young of Yavapai county and taken to Prescott. Judge Gilbert summoned William Johnson, Geo. Baumgartner, E. E. Towner, W. T. Mitchell, Geo. M. Harrison and E. R. Hall as a coroner's jury, who, after viewing the remains and listening to the evidence, brought in the following verdict: "We, the jurors empanelled and worn to enquire into the cause of the death of George W. Bryan, deceased, do find from a view of the body and testimony of Ben Sweninger, Sam Young, A. A. Johns, W. R. Bruce and William Connors, that the deceased came to his death on the 4th day of January, 1902, about five miles south of Gilbert in the county of Yavapai, from a gunshot wound inflicted by William Connors.