ROBERT McINTOSH
Arizona Republican Newspaper
December 6, 1895

Robert McIntosh, a burly blacksmith, Sunday night about 11, 
walked into the saloon of Gill and Moorhouse, on lower Broad 
Street opposite the Pascoe house. Behind the bar was William 
Gill, one of the proprietors. He joined a party in a drink 
and then Gill, across the bar, engaged McIntosh in an angry 
dispute.  A few hard words passed, when Gill reaching below 
the bar, produced a heavy revolver and fired point blank at 
his unarmed victim.  The bullet passed through the left arm 
and body and McIntosh fell backward like a long, instantly 
killed.

Gill gave himself up to the officers and was placed in jail 
under heavy guard, for the man he killed was one of the most 
popular citizens of the camp, and the murder is generally 
considered to have been cowardly in the extreme.  There was 
strong talk of lynching but at last accounts had died away.

Back of the killing is a foul story.  McIntosh about two 
months ago, was arrested, his friends say through clear 
malice, for a criminal assault upon the wife of Gill.  
Rape was charged against him and a justice of the peace 
bound him over to the grand jury. Upon the convening of 
the body, however, no case was presented.  McIntosh, 
escaping, according to the report, by the payment of 
$100 to Gill and the woman. It was thought the matter 
had been entirely settled, and from it McIntosh emerged 
with a comparative degree of credit.

McIntosh was unmarried and was about 35 years of age.  His 
funeral was held Tuesday under the direction of the Globe 
lodge of Masons of which he was a prominent member.


December 12, 1895

The accused William Gill was given a preliminary hearing before 
Justice of the Peace J. M. Jones on Thursday and Friday Judge 
Edwards appeared as counsel for the defendent.  The evidence 
is conclusive that just prior to the shooting hte defedant 
and the deceased were on friendly terms, that the trouble 
arose over the refusal of the defendent to give the deceased 
further credit in his place of business nad over amount of 
deceased's ndebtedness to defendant.  The defendant, Gill, 
grasped a pistol and fired the hsot which resulted in the 
death of McIntosh.  The jury decided that the act was 
committed in an act of passion and charged the defendant 
with manslaughter.

The funeral of Roderick M. McIntosh took place Tuesday 
forenoon.  Members of the White mountain Lodge No. 5 and 
Globe Lodge No 6 formed in front of the Pascoe House where 
they received the casket and marched with it to the M.E. 
Church where services were held.  The deceased was a man 
of generous impulses and had many friends in the 
community.  He was 34 years of age and a native of
Canada, born at Skye, Glengarty County, Ontario, 
where his mother still resides.


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