The Coconino sun., 1923-04-13
WILLIAMS NEWS
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We are enjoying lovely spring
| weather now. Every one is busy
cleaning up yards, planting gardens,
applying coat of paint or setting out
a tree, all of which makes Williams
what it is-one of the prettiest towns
among the tall pines.
Judge Jones and County Attorney
Harrison were over the last of the
week holding Coroner's inquest over
the remains of Jesse Coffey, whose
death occurred Thursday afternoon
following an accident Easter Sunday
evening. The verdict of the jury was
death by accident of collision with a
too-rapidly approaching train at an
unprotected crossing: The jurymen
were: E. ]. Kirwin, Frank Heinz, c..
A. Ray, Henry Rauch, w. A. Mosher,
James Smith.
Thursday evening Rev. w. L. Loom
is of the M. E. church united in mar
riage Miss May Day and Arthur Doyle
at the home of the groom. Miss Day
has been associated with the Fray
Marcos dining room for a long time
as head waitress. Mr.. Doyle is en-
gineer on the water train for the San
| ia Fe. VIM. Oswald and Chas. Muir
ray were two of the witnesses.
The body of Jesse Coffey was start
ed eastward Saturday evening on No.
10. The parents of Mr.. Coffey were
located in South Dakota and the faith
er wired for the body to be shipped to
the old home in Stanberry, Mo-, to a
brother.
The gypsies who arrived in Will
| liams Friday were overtaken by a
/ deputy sheriff from Kingman who
charged boy in the band with hav-
ing stolen jewelry and clothing there,
and took the youth back with him.
The men, true to gypsy form, left
their cars, women and children in
camp here and returned by train to
Kingman with an attorney, to answer
the charges, which proved to be many
after they arrived there. The boy
was cleared and all other grievances
satisfactorily cleared up-so the band
returned to Williams Saturday night
and early Sunday morning took their
| tribe away from the vicinity of Will
| liams.
The play clicked Out of College,
put on by the high school students
| last Friday evening was huge sue
cess in every way. Much credit is
due Miss Hawkins and Mr.. Britt for
its success.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Kennedy, accom-
panied by Mrs. Josie Sine and her
small grandson, Charlaben Sweetwood,
motored to Flagstaff Monday.
E. r. Byers made a business trip
to Kingman Friday and returned Sat
urday.
About 4 o'clock Sunday morning
Mr.. Fousha of the Parlor Pool hall
| happened to go into the hall and no.
ticed some one had been there since
he had closed the place up. Upon in
vestigation he found the cash regis
ter had been relieved of ten dollars
4 so he decided a real burglar had been
about and thought to phone for an Of
ficer, when he discovered the wires
| had been neatly cut. He went out
/ side and found Officer Merritt, whom
4 he took inside with him to see first
what had been done They found evi-
dence of a person having broken in
/ the back way, an automatic revolver
and some knives missing and were
! just talking over a possible suspect
when they heard a. noise nearby and
upon examination found a young man
crouched beneath one of the pool ta-
bles. The youth gave his name as
James O'Neil and his home Omaha,
Nebraska, his age 16. The officers
/ took him to a secure lodging place
where he will await the coming of
Judge Jones, since his case comes un-
der the jurisdiction of the juvenile
/ court.
Doctor Miller of Flagstaff, was a
! Williams visitor Monday.
The ladies who attended the state