Captain John C. Bourke
November 19, 1892
Arizona Silver Belt

A San Antonio, Texas dispatch of Nov. 16 says Camptain John 
C. Bourke was shot and killed by Marshall Paul Fricke, while 
testifying during the hearing of a case wherein certain 
Mexicans were charged with violating the neutrality laws.  
The information contained in the dispatch is too meagre to 
base an opinoin as to the provocaton given by Bourke which 
so enraged the Marshal that he fired the fatal shot.  Fricke 
is in jail.

Bourke was an officer of the 3rd U.S. Cavalry, and was well 
known in Arizona.  At the time of his death his company 
post for Fort Sam Houston.

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