P.L. TURNER
Bisbee
Arizona Republican Newspaper
July 2, 1902

P.L. Turner, a Bisbee mining man died Friday at Avalon, 
Catalina Island, under peculiar circumstances.  He went 
with his wife for a row on the bay.  When a hundred feet 
from the shore, returning, he stood up in the boat to 
change his seat.  Suddenly he fell backward into the water.  
When help reached him he apparently was dead though 
floating.  After working over him for an hour, the 
physicians gave up and gave the opinion that he died 
probably from heart failure.

More on P.L. Turner
January 5, 1902

The telegraph dispatches of last Saturday stated that a 
Bisbee mining man named P.F. Turner visiting Catalina 
Island had fallen out of a row boat and drowned.  
Inquiry failed to place him among the Bisbee people 
as no one by that name was known here.  When he met 
his death Turner was with a woman supposed to be his 
wife.  The woman who passed as his wife stated that 
he was subject to epileptic fits and that one of these 
was probably what caused his swift and awful end.  Now 
it is discovered that the man's real name was Percy F. 
Miel of Los Angeles and the reason for his false 
registration is more or less a mystery to his friends 
in Los Angeles.