CANCIANO, Jesus

Arizona Daily Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory August 25, 1908, page 5. column 3 Toyed With His Pistol Once Too Often Because he toyed with a pistol which he believed he had unloaded, at 5 o'clock Sunday evening at Ramsgate, Jesus Canciano, a Mexican section hand, now fills a grave in the citizen's cemetery. Canciano was cleaning his pistol in the vicinity of the section house at Ramsgate at the hour named when it accidentally discharged, the bullet entering his abdomen. He was a corpse less than sixty minutes later. Justice of the Peace McLane was notified. He left on the southbound train Sunday night and empanelled a coroner's jury, which returned a verdict of accidental death yesterday morning. The remains were brought here and interred by the Ruffner undertaking establishment yesterday evening at 5 o'clock. The weapon which caused Canciano's death is one of cheap make. He was warned several times by friends that he might accidentally discharge it. He did not heed their remarks and continued to handle it carelessly from time to time until the fatal shot was fired Sunday. Transcriber's note: Mr. Canciano is buried at the Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona.