Arizona republican., 1902-11-21
MoLLIE MONROE DEAD
Passing of Picture que Character of
 Picne Days.

Mollie Monroe died yesterday in the back in the eays when Arizona had TO such institution for the care of her unfortunates, on the 18th of May, 1877, she was adjudged insane at Prescott. and sent to the asylum at Stockton. Cal. She was in fact one of t.>s first people ever placed in any institution of that character from Arizona for th- first patient sent to the Stockton asy- lum from this territory was Wesley Ricketts who was sent there May r.. 1876, and sent back here when tho Arizona institution was completed. He is TOW a very old man and an inmate Of the asylum. Molly Monroe after her first confinement recovered sufficiently to be released but was returned to the territorial hospital January 14 1SS1.
 With the passing of Molly Monroe, ends the career of one of the historical and in many wGys picturesque char acters of the southwest. Her birth place could not be learned definitely yesterday but it is said she came origi- nally from Mississippi and at her death was well along toward eighty years old. She was Q wonderfully well preserved woman in all respects except her men tai weakness and till very recent years loved to join in the dances given for the patients at the asylum. IL is said she was active as a girl end derived real pleasure from the diversion. She also remembered many former ac- quaintanccs and greeted them cheerily when they called to see herself or other unfortunates confined there. She is saIu to have been in her early life d remarkably handsome woman, and that her affairs of the heart in days now forgotten have been the foundation oe jealousies that laid more than one man in his coffin through the deadly work of knife or bullet. Even in her old age she had a bright ard winsome eye and unusual good nature for one so desperately afflicted.
 Mollie Monroe. whose previous name or names have not been learned. came 10 Arizona in the very early pioneer days. dressed as a man, riding the range with cowboys or Consorting with 1 the miners in the gold diggings. Thoug-- not of unblemishcd character she followed business pursuits and her sins were those of a reckless abandon | for legal proprieties in the matter cl ] husband she could find another and society i1 those days did not demand an appeal to the divorce courts when affection grew fckle. or the services of q minister when new interests were to | be united.
 Molly lived the greater part of the | time in Yavapai county, Prescott then ! being the center of civilization in the southwest. and her visits to that city were always events of some public in- teTest. She was open hearted. liberal almost to fault. and loved children | Whenever she came to town about the first thing she did was to buy large quantities of candy and provide every child she met with a supply that made | him think Christmas had come again
 She nearly always wore mems clothes more for the reason that they were easier to ride in than anything else and was in this respect probably Ari- zona's first new woman"
 The incident with which her name
 will perhaps be longest connected was the discovery of the Castle Creek Hot Springs in which she is entitled to al least half honors. Sometime befor. she had become the wife of George
 Monroe either regularly or by mutua
 arrangement which in those days would probably have held good in law
 and whose name she has since borne Together they were riding the range
 bent on prospecting or rounding uT cattle, when thea- found the Castle
 Creek hot springs and located them It may be a novel, and possibly 6