Gin Bock Wo |
| Posted 2026-01-10 by Jo Brown |
| FATAL ACCIDENT CALLS AWAY GIN WO The Well Known Chinese Merchant Was Wounded So He Died Sunday Afternoon. Early Sunday morning, while hunting doves, down the Santa Cruz near Silva Station, at the farm of Harvey Walker, Gin Wo suffered an accidental gunshot wound which caused his death within a very few hours. Deceased had gone hunting with his partner and his two small sons. At the place mentioned they had occasion to cross a field, and in going through a barbed wire fence he srew his gun after him, with the muzzle toward himself. The trigger caught in the wire discharging the gun, the load passing through his right shoulder from the front of the armpit. The wounded man was hurried into the automobile they had gone out in, and all speed possible was made into town, where he was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital, where Doctors Smelker and Wallace took up the severed arteries, making their patient as comfortable as possible. Although he had lost no little blood he maintained consciousness, and conversed with the medicos while they were treating him. He seemed resting easy, but about 3 o'clock in the afternoon the nurse noted that he was sinking. She notified Doctor Smelker at once, but before he arrived the patient had breathed his last. Deceased was senior proprietor of the grocery establishment at the corner of Elm Street and Crawford, and he had a wide acquaintance among the people of the Line City. All who knew him liked him and he impressed everybody as a courteous, attentive business man. His wife died some three or four months ago, leaving five small children, three girls and two boys, who are now bereaved of their only parent. At the time of the wife’s death the little girls were sent to relatives in California, but the little boys remained with their father in Nogales. Care of the little ones will probably fall to some of deceased’s business and racial associates here, who will apply for guardianship in due form. The remains of deceased and his wife will be sent to China to be buried with their ancestors. The Daily Morning Oasis October 7, 1919 AZ death certificate shows his full name as Gin Bock Wo. |
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