TEDDY BURNS??
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Cochise Co. Az
September 4, 1895

The decomposed body of a man lately found near Bryant's Ranch 
in the Chiricahuas is believed in Tucson to be all that is 
mortal of Teddy Burns.  Burns was a prospector well known 
through southern Arizona.  If one place more than another 
was his home it was Tucson, where his only living relative, 
a sister, resides.  The Star says he has not been there for 
months, but his absence created no alarm.  The only means of 
identifying the skeleton found in the Chiricahuas from any 
other skeleton was the absence of portions of the second, 
third and fourth fingers were missing from Burn's right hand, 
having been crushed by a pile driver when he was employed in 
the construction of the dam of the Gila Bend Reservoir and 
Irrigation Company.  Fragments of the hair lying near the 
skull showed it to be of a sandy color and Burns had such 
hair.  For these reasons it is feared that the skeleton was 
all that exists of Teddy Burns.

Burns was about 43 years old and had lived in the territory 
for fifteen years. He was a man of some education and an 
expert accountant. He had been employed as a clerk or 
bookkeeper by varoius Tucson firms and had been a clerk at 
Bowie. He was also the owner of a store in a camp near there. 
He was an excellent penman and fter the loss of the fingers 
of his right hand, he became an adept penman with his left 
hand.  For sevreal years he has been engaged in prospecting.  
Teddy Burns was well known to all old times at Tombstone, 
being at one time bookkeeper and general business manager 
for Jimmy Carr.

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