Arizona republican., 1907-10-31

Sparks being among the latter. In searching about the car for some pos sible reason for the death of this man, iwho it was soon learned was Thomas Fitzgerald, MT. Sparks found beer bottle. Smelling of it he at once rec lognized it's former contents as wood alcohol. remarking as he did so that that was the cause of death and that it had contained enough poison to kill horse.
 | Hearing this observation one of the hobo journeymen who had given the name of Casey. immediately went into convulsions. announcing that he had been drinking the same stuff and say ing he knew now that he was doomed. He lived but short time and though able to talk a little he refused to tell anything about himself. When asked who should be notified in the event of his death he replied, "The under taker" It is presumed that Casey is the unidentified man who fingered un- til o'clock yesterday morning. Judg ing from his refusal to talk it is req sonable to suppose that Casey is a name he had assumed for the time being.
 After the coroner and what was left of the jury had passed on Fitzpatrick and made Casey as comfortable as possible they returned to the depot where another man was found writh- ing in agony and very soon thereafter the fourth man was found back of 1 Wells Fargo & Co.'S express office, which is in little building few rods away from the depot. He was also desperately i'll and it is supposed that these two were Brink of Duluth and Coughlin of Chicago though which one was in the depot Is not known here.
 From various directions where the three sick men mentioned lay and from some other quarters. came groans and cries of anguish. There are us- ually quite a number of hoboes around the station and it was imagined that all of them had been drinking of the wood alcohol and there were some no doubt who did get enough to make them sick without killing them. one of them. but whether or not it was one of the men now dead, told story of where they got the alcohol. that was not believed at the time. though it may have had some foundation in fact. He said it was found in cask that was lying in a ditch. IL was sampled and found to be alcohol whereuppn they got some empty bot ties and filled them. so they could car ry the liquor along with them as they ! travelled. He said they all drank more or less of it, weakened with water sometimes. and that they gave a quan- tity of it to some Indians they met. It is hardly believed that they found it ! in cask in a ditch unless they had previously pitched it out of a freight car. It is possible though that they did have an opportunity to steal it in or near Tucson and then carried it with them.
 There is still doubt as to whether all the whites who imbibed the poi son have been rounded up. dead or alive. and bodies may be found in that vicinity for some time to come. vic 1 tins of that deadly debauch. while bulletins from the reservation will be awaited with interest. concerning the fate of the red men who are supposed to have had their share of the poi sen.
 An interesting feature of the case is that a young physician who chanced to be at Maricopa, advised giving the patients salt water. which was done As soon as the salt water was taken the patients immediately went into cohvulsions. Whether that is the thing desired for proper treatment of such cases. or whether the victims had just happened to reach the convulsion stage of their trouble. is passed up to the doctors. When the train left the remedy had not finished running its course.