Arizona republican., 1921-10-20
TOINVEST|GATE THE
 DEATH IF RANCHER
 WHO DIED IN JAIL

An inquest to inquire into the death of w. P. Harris, 6S-year- r-old rancher whose home was in the 200c block on East Van Buren street, who died about 2 o'clock yesterday after noon in the city jail was continued bv Coroner Henry J. Sullivan until 1 o'clock this afternoon in order that a post mortem examination could be made of the body by pr. G. $. Mon- ical. county physician.
 i. Harris. the police officers declare, was intoxicated when brought into the station at o'clock yesterday morning and was placed in the jail to sober up. When viewed by the coroners jury following the death of the man, the right eye was black and discolored and blood had been running from his nose prior to his l death. According to inmates of the city jail, Harris died in one of i the cells where he had been placed by prisoners in order that they could scrub the floor of the jail.
 Nick Pappo, police officer. testify | ing at the inquest, said he went to | second and Van Buren streets in answer to a call where he found i Harris lying beside the walk. He was taken to the station. Pappo said, l and booked and searched. Pappo | declared he could smell liquor on the breath of the man whose only state ment was Let me sit down." Pappo
 said Harris was carried into the jail
 and placed on the floor. When
 brought into the station, Pappo said,
 Harris had no discoloration on his
 eye, nor was his nose bleeding.
 E. D. Ellis, police officer, told of I searching Harris in the station and
 declared the man had been drinking. Ellis said he got his name from let
 ters and gas bills in his pocket
 Ellis stated he saw no bruises on the eve of the man. Moses Rodriquez,
 a prisoner from the jail, said he saw
 Harris lying on the floor of the jail
 about 7:30 o'clock in the morning
 Two of the prisoners, he said, car
 ried Harris into the bath room of
 the jail where he remained for some
 time. Rodriguez declared none of
 the prisoners had handled the man
 roughly nor had anyone in the jail
 struck Harris. Later, he said, Har-
 ris was carried into a cell called the
 sweat box" because the prisoners
 wanted to scrub and mop the floor
 The door to the cell known as the
 sweat box" he said, was never closed or locked. Harris, he said died about o'clock in the afternoon , without saying a word to any of the prisoners.
 : C. c. Harris and F. O. Harris
 ranchers and sons of Harris, de = clared in the sheriffs office las 2 night that their father was not drunl when placed in the city jail because he was a man who did not drink Their father, they said. left home about 6:30 o'clock yesterday morn ing to go to the office of the Cen tral Arizona Light and Power com r pany on West Washington street t' pay his gas bill. Their mother | they said, became uneasy over thu
 prolonged absence of their father : but did not start a search, thinking p he was detained on business in town l Harris was a member of tn r Modern Woodman of America ant 2 has been in the Salt River valle. about four years. coming here iron
 Chandler, Oklahoma He is sur e vived by his widow, Mary F. Harris
 and four sons, C. c. Harris. F. c Harris, Dewey Harris and Justil
 Harris. all of Phoenix. and thre
 daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander r living in Missouri. and Gladys an . LaVonne Harris, of Phoenix.
 3 The body was removed to tn : Moore and Sons undertaking parlor f and funeral arrangements will n announced later.