Patrick McGovern |
| Posted 2017-02-06 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Weekly Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Saturday, September 25, 1869, page 3, column 2 A Bloody Night In Prescott - The night of Monday, September 20, 1869, was the bloodiest night in the annals of this town. Two soldiers, Sergeant Patrick McGovern, of Co. B. 8th Cavalry, and private Thomas Donahue, of Co. F, 12th Infantry, were shot dead and another, private George Nunes, Co. F, 12th Infantry, was severly stabbed, and is now in a critical condition. McGovern was, it is said, murdered in the Diana Saloon, at about four o'clock in the morning, by one Jos. Johnson, a discharged soldier. Private Harry Langham, of Co. F, 12th Infantry, has, we are informed, been convicted of stabbing Nunes, and is suspicioned of shooting Donahue. He is now in irons at Fort Whipple. William Collins, (another discharged soldier), was mixed up in the row in which McGovern lost his life, and he and Johnson are now at large. Troops are out searching for them, and it is the prayer of this entire community that they will be killed or captured. Transcriber's note: It is not know where Mr. McGovern is buried. |
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