A Sad Death
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

A Sad Death On Wednesday morning intelligence reach- ed this city of the sudden death of J. D. Berry, at Lone Mountain. Coroner H. H. Betts imme- diately left for Lone Mountain, and impanelled the following jury: H. W. Loomis, Josephus Crowley, J. K. Christy, Chas. Johnson, H. J. Loomis and Alf O’Brien. The jury decided that deceased came to his death by the overturning of a wagon and the breaking of his spinal column. It seems that late Tuesday night the deceased, in company with Frank Thompson, Ed Baker, Rosalie Valarde and Bessie McBride, left Central for Lone Mountain, in a light wagon drawn by two burros. The night was very dark, and all of the parties had been drinking. Berry had been on a protracted spree, and when the party stopped at Don Parra’s to borrow a lan- tern about 11 o’clock, Berry was quite sick. After traveling some distance the party lost the road. Mr. Thompson got out of the wagon, found the road and called to the driver to fol- low. The wagon was on the side of the moun- tain and in descending was turned over, with the result above given. Rosalie Valarde was badly hurt, and Bessie McBride considerably