The articles that ran in the paper 100 years ago today were all follow-up articles to the ones presented yesterday.
This includes the story of the body parts, though this is milder. We still recommend discretion.
From the Arizona Daily Star, Thursday, August 3, 1916:
5 MEXICANS HELD AS BURGLARY SUSPECTS
Rincon Apartments and Barber Shop Ransacked; Jewelry Stolen
Five Mexicans suspected of being members of a gang implicated in the recent burglaries were arrested yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Forbes and deputies, on Meyer street. They are being held in the county jail for a complete investigation.
The capture of the five men followed the burglarizing of several apartments at the Rincon yesterday morning.
Threw Clothing Away.
The fact that the burglars who ransacked several apartments at the Rincon, threw away articles of clothing shortly after leaving the place, was considered by officers as indicating that the burglars were not of the ordinary tramp type. Other loot taken comprised two watches, from the apartments of Jack Bowles and Frank Gillingham respectively, and several smaller articles of jewelry, such as stick pins.
The robbery of the Rincon occurred ab out 5:30 o’clock yesterday morning. At that time a man was seen leaving the apartment of F. A. Reynolds, by Jack Bowles, who also has apartments there. Bowles first thought it was Reynolds but when he called the stranger did not answer but hurried away.
The clothing taken from the three Rincon apartments was thrown into the back yard of the home of J. C. McClure, on North Seventh avenue, about a block away and was discovered later in the morning by Mr. McClure, who telephoned the police department. The clothing was taken to the station and later identified by Messrs. Reynolds, Gillingham and Bowles.
Barber Shop Robbed.
Between 7 and 8 o;clock yesterday morning the barber shop of A. Acuna, on South Main street, was robbed of four razors, four pairs of clippers, several pairs of scissors and $8.65 in money, the latter being taken from a trunk. The robbery occurred while Acuna was at breakfast. Two suspects are being sought by officers.
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The missing miner's name had been corrected in time for this edition.
Search for Sheerer Still Without Result
Officers Learn Mining Man Was Ill Shortly Before Disappearance
John Sheerer, the mining man who disappeared while on a prospecting trip near the Pima-Pinal county line, over ten days ago, left the Arizona hospital, where he had been ill, on June 17, it was learned by Sheriff Forbes yesterday. It is feared that the weakness of convalescence may have contributed to his collapse on the desert.
Sheriff Hall, of Pinal county, is also conducting a search for Sheerer but up to last night Sheriff Forbes had received no news from the Pinal officer.
Mrs. Joe Andrade, a northside resident, was interested yesterday in The Star’s story of Sheerer’s disappearance, for she had been conducting negotiations with Sheerer prior to his departure on the prospecting trip, for the sale to him of a mining claim which she owns jointly with a Mrs. Barnes. Sheerer had looked at the property and had informed Mrs. Andrade that he would purchase her interest in the claim and the deal was to have been closed upon Sheerer’s return from the prospecting trip south of E. Aguirre’s ranch.
Sheerer, which is the name on the records of the Arizona hospital, is described as of stocky build, having black hair, dark eyes and a black mustache. He was 5 feet, 8 inches in height and weighed 175 pounds.
Lastly, the hand and other body fragments were identified as that of Mr. Johnson, so worries of a second death were unfounded.
Human Hand Found On Train was Johnson’s
Identity Established by Brother; Body sent to Minnesota for Burial
The human hands, forearm, ear and other fragments of flesh which were taken from the forward trucks of the baggage car of Southern Pacific westbound train No. 101 at Benson Tuesday morning and brought to Tucson, were identified yesterday as being a part of the body of A. H. Johnson, foreman of a construction gang of the Pacheco Construction Co., by a brother of the dead man’s.
The body of Johnson was not brought to Tucson, as had been reported it would be, and the hand and other parts of the body which were brought here pending the establishing of their identity, were sent yesterday to Deming, New Mexico, where the inquest was held and from which place the body will be sent to Minnesota for interment. A sister resides in that state.
The establishing of the identity of the hand and other parts as being from the body of Johnson, disproved the theory held by some that they were from a woman’s body and there there had been two fatal accidents instead of one, but it was learned that Johnson was very slight in build, accounting for the latter theory.
