ALICE MOSS
Arizona Republican Newspaper
August 15, 1903

The coroner's jury which sat to consider the cause of death 
of Miss Alice Moss returned a somewhat sensational verdict 
Tuesday says the Bisbee Review.  The jury's verdict was as 
follows:

"We find that the deceased, Alice Moss, was a native of 
California, aged 24 and that she came to her death on the 
morning of the 8th day of August, 1903 in Bisbee and we find 
that the cause of death was due to the negligence of the 
attending physician, Dr. M.D. Johnson, he having been found 
to have administered powerful drugs and neglected his patient."

There were five witnesses examined at the inquest into the 
cause of death.  They were Drs. Edmundson, Hart and Johnson, 
Mrs. Harrison and E. Howell, a carpenter, who resides in the 
house where Miss Moss was rooming at the time of her death 
and who was present when Dr. Johnson administered hypodermic 
injections to the patient.

The weight of testimony was by the physicians who stated that 
the woman, in addition to being a sufferer from partial 
paralysis had been attacked by a most malignant disease, 
which had virtually destroyed every organ in her body with 
the exception of her heart.

It transpires that at the autopsy which was performed by Dr. 
Edmundson the condition of the woman was revealed to have been 
such that she could not have survived long had no medicine or 
drugs been administered.

The verdict of the jury makes it a case of investigation for 
the territorial officials.  Whether, after carefully examining 
the testimony offered in this city, they will deem it necessary 
to go any further wit the case is doubtful.  Three competent 
physicians testified that the deceased was a victim of one of 
the most loathsome diseases known to the medical profession 
and she could not have survived its ravages much longer.