Jose Cantin |
| Posted 2016-11-29 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Arizona Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Tuesday, March 20, 1906, page 4, column 4 Dies From Cold For Lack Of Matches To Start A Fire About four miles west of this city along the lines of the S.F.P. & P., near bridge 101, Percy Wellwood and a companion on Sunday morning last, about 11 o'clock were startled on discovering the dead body of a man lying only a few feet from the track. They hastily returned to the city, and notified the Sheriff's office, and a short time later the sheriff, accompanied by Justice of the Peace P. J. Keohane, undertaker, F. F. Nevin, and Tom Marmont, left for the scene, and brought the remains to town. An examination of the place where the gruesome find was made showed a small pile of wood evidently gathered by the deceased with the intention of starting a fire. No matches were found on the remains, and the general opinion is that the deceased fell asleep and died from the cold and exposure before waking up. A coroner's jury was impaneled by the justice yesterday morning, which rendered a verdict that the deceased came to his death from unknown causes. It was developed at the inquest from papers found on the deceased that his name was Jose Cantin, and that he was a resident of Colorado, and was employed as a section hand on the Colorado Southern railway near Larkspur in the month of November last. He was a well and cleanly dressed, apparent of Spanish extraction, and a razor and pocket book, but no money were found in his pockets. A large number of the Spanish residents of this city viewed the remains yesterday but none could identify the corpse, which will be interred in the city cemetery today. Transcriber's note: Mr. Cantin is buried at the Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona in an unknown and unmarked grave. |
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