Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-05
FOUND;
 MYSTERY IS
 PREVALENT
Positive Identification as That
 of Duncan McDonald Is Inn
 possible, But the Belief Is That the Body Is His
Accident, Suicide and Foul
 Play Theories Are All Ad-
 vanced; No Proof As to Which May Be Correct

Winch May be COfreCt
 A body of which there may never be absolute identific rtion. but which is accepted as that of Duncan Me. Donald. aged about 60 years. was found early yesterday morning by Mexican wood chopper who had gone to the top of a high ridge in upper Brewery Gulch. He reported the dis covery to Coroner Walter Thomas. who empaneled a jury and went to ! the scene.
 Identification of the body was made mainly by a pair of trousers, which friend said he had witnessed the Ipurchasing of by Mcdonald at the l Phelps-Dodge store and by a pair ! of shoes which he wore and which were identified by another witness. ] The general build of the body also conformed that of Mcdonald
 The body had apparently lain on the ground between ten days and two weeks. Added to the horror of ab. sence of the entire front of the face above the mouth and of the front portion of the head. was that of bloat and dissolution, the body being in a bad state of decomposition. Rec ognition of the features. or any posi- tive identification was utterly impos. lsible. Interment of the body win occur this morning at 9:3O from the 10. K parlors
 Attaching to the cause of death is Apparently near as much that is de- liant of positive conclusions as at- tends the matter of positive idenun- cation. A rifle, declared by some of his friends to be that of Mcdonald. lay by the mans side Its position was such that 1t might either have fallen as 1t lay after accidental dis charge ,or it might have fallen in the same manner from the hands of a suicide.
 Whether the fatal shot fired from 'it was accidental or intentional the rifle bullet entered at one corner of the mouth and tore It's ghastly and deadly way upward lt must have been fired very close to have made the terrible havoc which it did Death was undoubtedly instantaneous If accidental, then the victim must have been leaning with his face upon the gun barrel The gun was short Winchester Mcdonald is known to have had a similar gun
 All that has been heard that might indicate suicide is contained in the statement of the landlady of the 1ooming house at which Mcdonald lived. She recounts his departure from her place ten days or two weeks ago, at which time he took bis gus
 and told her that he was going to the Huachuas for a while. He said
 he did not know just when he would
 be back, that in the interim he
 wanted his trunk to be held for S. ! I Williams and no one else to be
 permitted to open it. unless 1t was
 the officers. He then dissipated the alarm that these alst words had given
 rise to, with some laughing remark
 about his proosed tr,p.
 Mcdonald came to Cochise coun-
 ty in 1903. He has since been in and
 out of Bisbee the Chircahuas and the
 Huachucas His interests. however
 were chiefly in the Chiricuhuas, at % Paradise. The last two years he had
 made his headquarters almost alto. gether in Bisbee and was a familiar figure about the streets. particularly .in Brewery Gulch A quiet unassum
 ing old man, he disturbed no one P and had consideration as a good citi
 zen. His only apparent diversion was
 an occasional social game of cards
 for which he was sought by players in his fayorite lounging places be ' cause of the keen wit which he al ' these times indulged
 Four years ago, Mcdonald in de lending his own life from the would be jumpers, fatally shot one of them Q a man named Hendricks. The other three fled Later Mcdonald was con VI Yicted. Two years ago the efforts @ made continuously in his behalf iron F the tune of the trouble and mainll n by Duncan Mcdonald of this city '' bearing the same name as the dea, l man, but has no relation in this city e resulted in the pardon of Mcdonald In the interim. however, his Paradis, @ property had been jumped, it is al E leged at the instigation of the orlgl