Dr…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

Dr. J. C. Handy, a prominent physician of Tucson, was shot and killed by Frank J. Heney, an attorney who brought a suit for divorce for Mrs. Handy. It is said that the doctor enjoyed a practice of $25,000 a year. Mrs. Handy claim- ed that the doctor was a little too handy around Pansy Smith, the wife of Frank W. Smith, the defaulting receiver of public moneys at Tucson, a son of Exa Billy Smith, ex-United States sena- tor from Virginia in ante-bellum days. The killing is said to have been in self defense.