Weekly journal-miner., 1918-12-04
DUAL IDENTITY DISCLOSED BY
 DEATHS HAND
JEROME MINER WAS BORN AS PAT WARD, BUT DIS CARDEDs THAT NAME AND BECAME KNOWN IN CAMP, JOHN O'CONNOR.

 and he lived thirty-five years as Pat rick Ward Then for year he liv- ed as John O'Connor, working and banking as John O'Connor but re- ceiving his mail as Patrick Ward. As John O'Connor he had influenza and as John O'Connor he died, to be bur jed as Patrick Ward Now relatives are having their troubles in establish ing the fact that Patrick Ward and John O'Connor were one person and that the estates of Patrick Ward and John O'Connor should be legally treated as one estate.
 This is a brief resume Of the strange life of the first victim of Spanish influenza in Jerome. There are numerous interesting details, of course, among them the story of the flight from Goldfield to Jerome, of a man who believed that he had kill ed another and who changed his name in order to evade possible pur- suit and punishment.
 John O'Connor," as he was known in Jerome, was a resident of this place for something like a year. He was a quiet, industrious young Irish man. Most of the time he was em- ployed in digging the U. V. Extension haulage tunnel. He made good money and saved it, so much that when he fell i'll with influenza he had between S7OO and $500 to the credit of John O'Counor at the Bank of Arizona.
 At the postoffice, however, he was known as Patrick Ward. He receiv- ed letters, sent letters and took out money orders under that name. This fact did not come out till after his death.
 There was just one person who knew that John O'Connor was not not John O'Connor. That was Ed ward Coyne. a brother of Martin Coyne, who had come to Jerome with him. So when John O'Connor died at the hospital Coync notified Mich ael Ward, of Portland, Oregon, a brother of the deceased.
 Michael Ward came to Jerome and had the body embalmcd for ship ment to Portland At that time however, there was an embargo on the shipment of influenza victims SC interment of the remains was made in Valley VSw cemetery. In the meantime, however, Ward had in- formed Undertaken Scott that the real name Of his relative was Patrick Ward. not John O'Conner. So the funeral was Patrick Wards funeral and Patrick Wards name was plac' ed on the headstone.
 Michael Ward, Edward Coyne ana Martin Coyne went to Attorney C | Mulvanc and asked him to take thu necessary steps to have Martin Coy ne appointed administrator of the es tate of John O'Connor. Mulvane wa given to understand that Michae Ward and O'Connor were half bro liners.
 After Mulvane had filed the ncces sarv application the Coynes ant Ward realized that the administrato would have authority to handle onl the estate left by John O'ConnoI The iuurancc policy carried by Pat rick Ward in the w. O. w. lodge a Portland, and Patrick Wards valu able farm in Lewis county, Washing ton. could not be touched by the at ministrator of the estate of John O Connor.
 Therefore the whole story was tol to Mulvanc and he filed affidavits t prove that John O'Connor and Pal rick Ward were one. Coyne's al pointinent as administrator was mad by the superior court of Havapi county several days ago.
 Patrick Ward left Goldfield, a' cording to Edward Coyne, just aft' a fist fight with another mine Wards antagonist got much tll worst of the argument; so much il worst, in fact, that Ward and h friend, Coync, expected him to die.
 While Ward and Coyne were c route to Jerome, Ward decided tn; as a matter of prccaution he wouI change his name and John O'Coi nor was the alias he chose. Ait he had become established in Jcron as John O'Connor he learned tn the miner with whom he had fougl in Goldfield had entirely rccovere If there was any charge at all again him it was nothing moro serious ths assault and battery.
 
 GARRETT ESTATE IS
 APPRAISED AT S73,4