Bisbee daily review., 1902-09-09
JOHN WEAVER
 IS DEAD
DIED IN HIS ROOM AT 12:15
 O'CLOCK YESTERDAY
Post Mortem Examination Heio-- Heart Failure Was the Cause of Death

Death
 John Weaver was found dead in bed
 about 12:l5 o'clock yesterday at the
 rooming house of J. NJ Jones on ! School Hill where he made his home | No one was with Weaver when he
 died, although Mrs. Jones went into the room very soon after he expired Mrs. Frances E. Jones, who had 1 been waiting upon the deceased, gave the following regarding the death of | Mir. Weaver:
 | He had been sick the most of the time since l came back from Califor- mia two weeks ago. He told me upon several occasions that he was poorly.
 A week ago this morning he said that he was not very well and said that he would go away for a few weeks. He was very sick for few days and Mir. Jones sat up with him for some time. Yesterday he was taken i'll and went down to the doctor and when he came back he was very sick. l helped put him to bed and bathed his face with cold water and he said he thought he would get better. l went down to get him cup of tea and my little girl took him up a pitcher of ice water. l had not been out of the room five minutes before 1 returned and found him dead l lifted his head and at tempted to revive him with cold wa ter but 1 saw that he was dead. have known MT. Weaver for the past two years and never knew a more quiet and gentlemanly man. had great respect for him and his death is a shock to me.
 Dr.C. l.. Caven was then called and testified that he had made a post mor- tenn examination of the body and said that death was due to absolute heart trouble, There is no evidence of poison of any kind and he was per fectly sound in other particulars" He stated that he had come into his office about three weeks ago and Dr. Edmundson had prescribed for him.
 Dr. F. A. Sweet stated that the first time he remembered of treating the man was on the 31th of August. He said the man had suffered intensely from ingina pectras, which means an ailment of the heart. which attacked the patient at intervals
 Il examined him and found that he was very bad and after treating him ordered him a carriage to take him home. Yesterday I found him suffer ing again and treated him and sent him home in my cart. Some time ago told him I believed it would be well for him to go to some lower altitude and he went over into the Gila valley where he remained for some time and came into the office to say that he had greatly improved. Dr. Sweet ! examined the medicine which he had | given the man when he was last at 1 the office, consisting of strychnine l and morphine tablets but none had 1, been taken from the box.
 The jury consisting of W. McCor- | mick, E. F. Long, James F. Blair, J. 1 R. Buttick, Albert Kyle, G. A. Rolles, ! who found the following verdict:
 We. the undersigned jurors, find | the deceased to be a citizen of the | United States, about 55 years of age | and came to his death by heart fail ! ure"
 The deceased came heref rom Texas 1 where he had been in the cattle busi- ness on the Pacos river. At one time i he had large bunch of cattle which | he sold for about 5000. It is un- derstood that he has very little of this amount of money as he has been working for wages in the saloons for some time past. For several months he has been dealing nome in the Turf saloon. He was a quiet, unas- suming man, who had little to say to any one. He has relatives living at Jerome. He was single man.