On Wednesday of last week, Prof…
source date: 1888
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pretty freely, he had not a few enemies in this section of the county. His death, however, was a great surprise to his many friends here, who mani- fested great anxiety to obtain the full particu- lars, which, as near as the Enterprise can as- certain, are about as follows: On Wednesday of last week, Prof. Philpin, who had but recently been married, and was living at Shakespeare, came into Lordsburg to take the train for some point in Arizona, where he had accepted a situation with a mercantile establishment. While in Lordsburg he got drunk and missed the train. Buck and Philpin were friends, and in the evening Buck got Philpin into the former’s office, where the inebriated man soon fell asleep. In the meantime Otter Johnson had written a letter to Mrs. Philpin, at Shakespeare, about three miles from Lordsburg, in which he stated that her husband was drunk and that she had better come and look after him; also stating that he (Philpin) was in his (Johnson’s) house. When the lady arrived in Lordsburg she soon found her husband, and a scene followed. Philpin had partially sobered up, and after the family breach was somewhat healed, both husband wife naturally turned on Johnson for his interference in matters that did not concern him. Mrs. Philpin wanted her husband to go and whip Johnson, stating that she would do it herself if he did not.