The Phoenix Herald says: Captain W…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

fired. The position of the parties, the manner in which the shooting was done, and all the circumstances attending the tragedy, were clearly and comprehensively detailed by some four or five witnesses who were present at the time of the perpetration of the act and saw it. The Phoenix Herald says: Captain W. A. Hancock, on coming to town from his ranch across the river and some four miles distant from town, reported that a Mexican, while following bees, informed him that he had found a deserted dry well on the old road from Phoe- nix to Maricopa Wells around the last end of the Maricopa mountains and about two miles southeast of Captain Hankack’s ranch. In the bottom of the well he discovered the remains of what appeared to be a human being. Captain Hancock hitched up his team and drove back with the Mexican to the spot indicated, where he found a dry well about twenty-five feet deep and six feet across, in the bottom of which were the remains of a dead man, apparently dried up, as no scent of decay came from them, and indicating that they had been in the well for a considerable length of time. A straw hat lay near the body, but from the surface there was no means of identification. The clothes were