Arizona republican., 1906-01-06
GR|SLY SIGHT
 WAVING HAND
GhaStIy Morning Greeting
 to Zanjero Peterson
His Discovery of the Dead Body of Thomas MCGrath in the Canal Yes- terday Morning.

If a mans blood ever had cai3e 70 stand still at a grisly sight, that of l. D. Peterson a Zanjero of the Salt River Valley canal was justified ia coagula- ton. MT. Peterson who lives west or the city was coming up the canal to regulate the gates. He stopped at the one near Fifteenth avenue and having adjusted it he saw something. It was q human hand above the water. IL was moving back and forth and was waved almost playfully toward him as if it were waiting a kiss to him from somewhere beyond the world.
 MT. Peterson mounted his horse and came to town to tell of the strange thing ke had seen. This kind of dis covery is reported to the coroner. MT Peterson Tad seen no dead body but Ee knew one was there. Acting Coron- CT Burnett collected a jury and went out to the haunted head gate. There was the hand still swaying with the motion of the water. Deputy Sheriff Wayne Davis threw a rope over it and the men forming a line behind him each pulling at the other dragged q sodden body to the bank
 Nobody knew who it was but there was found in a pocket an envelope ad- QEeSSeu lO nOiildS M dNiis A'A''tNA . Hospital. Phoenix In this was an other envelope addressed to Thomas McGrath. Roosevelt The man looked as if he had not been in the water very long. He was about thirty-five or forty years of age and one eye was gone. He was dressed fully except for q vest and 2 hat.
 The officers had been hunting for Thomas McGrath since before daylight. | A message had been received about 2 o'clock in the morning from the Sis | ters hospital saying that a patient by the name of Thomas McGrath had just escaped probably in a delirium. The police had been hunting for him on the streets and they found one place where it was said he had asked for a drink. But that is probably a mistake | for McGrath almost certainly did not come down town.
 He was traced from the door of the i hospital to the bank of the canal which flows in front of the institution. The swift current had carried him from | that point to the place where he had waved his hand at the zanjero. | McCrath had been employed for some time at the reclamation work at i Roosevelt. A couple of weeks ago he
 was injured by a blast and came to Phoenix to have an injured eye treat ed. It was fornd necessary to take it | Jlt.
 A few days aso he was attacked by | pneumonia and grew delirious. About | two o'clock yesterday morning, one Of
 the sisters a nizht nurse met him coni- | ing out of his room dressed. She or
 ct red him back but he kept going to-
 W,"d the do )-. The nurse called othes
 sters and they came but McGrat. ! brushed them aside and passed out ol | the door into the darkness. The sisters
 could not say which way he went for
 he left the hospital door running. By
 the time they reached the door he was
 out os si-ht.
 Very little could be learned yester-
 day of McGrath. He came here from
 San Francisco where he probably has relatives living. He was heard to say
 a few days ago that having lost his eye he never wanted his people to SIG him This was not said in a way to lead f,
 a suspicion that he intended t1 commit
 Jicide and he probably did mt con
 init suicide. Running from the hospi tai he most likely fell into ihe cana unaware where he was going.