SHUT, Charley

Arizona Daily Journal - Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory
Thursday, January 2, 1908

CHINAMAN FOUND DEAD ON CHINK NEW YEAR

Just as the rays of yesterday’s sun welcomed the Chinese New Year, 
4605, Charley Shut, a native of Flowery Kingdom, was found dead in 
Miller’s Lane, immediately northwest of the city, by a fellow 
countryman. 

A coroner’s jury returned a verdict that deceased came to his death as 
a result of alcoholism, and it is whispered, among the Chinese element 
that Charley, true to tradition and the ways of the yellow people in 
the land of the dragon, drank himself to death because he was unable to 
pay off his obligations before the New Year entered. It is hinted that 
a solution of opium, mingled with the intoxicants he drank, caused his 
demise. 

Shut was an old-time resident of this city and had been engaged in 
gardening in Miller valley for several years, He was 49 years old.


Transcriber's note: Mr. Shut is buried in an unmarked grave at the 
Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona.

Posted by Judy Wight Branson on March 03, 2017

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