PATRICK DAWSON Arizona Republican Newspaper October 12, 1890 Tombstone-Early yesterday morning Fred H. McGowan arrived in this city from Morse Canyon in the Chirachuas and gave himself up to Sheriff Slaughter, saying that he had killed Patrick Dawson at that place Monday morning. McGowan owns a ranch on Morse Canyon and he and Dawson were partners in the proceeds. McGowan says that last Saturday Dawson drove him away from the ranch and threatened to kill him. He remained away that night but returned between 4 and 5 o'clock Monday morning accompanied by a double-barreled shotgun. He got close to the house and waited until Dawson came out, when he emptied both barrels of the gun into him and then went into the house and got a Winchester rifle and put a bullet through the body. The Coroner's inquest was held and the jury returned the verdict of justifiable homicide. McGowan then came to this city and is now in the county jail awaiting examination which will take place before Justice Johnson next Wednesday at 2 o'clock pm. The prisoner seems entirely unconcerned as to the examination and is confident that he will be released as he claims he did the killing in self-defense.