POLLICARPIA URIAS
November 26, 1898
Arizona Republican Newspaper

Pollicarpia Urias died Monday from the wound he received a few 
days before.  A corner's jury said that death was caused fro the 
effects of a bullet wound in the left breast from a Winchester 
rifle, which was accidentally discharged while in his hands.  
There were but two witnesses examined, a sister of 16 years and 
his brother-in-law Cacario Ruiz, a boilermaker in the employ of 
the Copper Queen Company.  Ruiz knew only that upon being 
apprised of the accident he went to where Urias was and the 
latter asked him to promise to take care of his mother and 
sister.

The young sister was the only person besides himself in the 
house at the time the shooting occurred, says the Bisbee Orb. 
She stated that between 9 and 10 o'clock in the morning her 
brother arose from his bed and without saying anything walked 
to a corner of the room where his Winchester rifle was, and 
taking it in his hand started toward the center of the room.  
Almost immediately she heard the shot and saw that her 
brother had been wounded. He sank to the floor and laid 
there groaning, while she, terror stricken, ran to alarm 
her mother and other relatives nearby.  In a few moments 
she returned with them and her wounded brother was laid 
on the bed.  She heard him make no remark at the time of 
the shooting or afterward, except to ask for water, and 
she could assign no reason why he should have shot himself 
intentionally.

No further facts could be learned by the committee appointed 
by the Spanish American Society to investigate the affair and 
they accepted the finding of the coroner's jury.


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