Sam Wing
Arizona Silver Belt
December 16, 1896

Sam Wing, a gardner was found dead in the road a short distance 
north of Robert Stead's early last Saturday morning by Jesse 
Henderson.  Acting Coroner John M. Jones and Sheriff J.H. 
Thompson repaired to the palce and found the body lying across 
the road and the dead man's horses and wagon a mile farther 
north with the two dogs which always accompanied the team.

An examination of the body revealed gunshot wounds in the back 
of the head and neck and tracks behind a catclaw bush at the 
side of the road showed the assassin had lain in wait for his 
victim; other tracks indicated that as the wagon passed he had 
advanced within eight or ten feet and fired the fatal shot.

That the murder was not committed for the purpose of robbery 
was evidenced by the fact tha the body had not been approached 
and a watch and $10 were found on the person of the dead man.  
The murderer, after circling about the spot, had returned to 
the road and toward Globe to within a quarter of a mile north 
of the Buffalo smelter, where the trail was lost.

Sam Wing, whose garden is at Wheatfields, was on his way home, 
having left Globe about 7:30 on Friday evening and the killing 
must have ocucrred about half past eight o'clock or later.

Deceased had been a resident of Globe for 17 or 18 years and was 
an industrious and peaceable man.  He was buried on Sunday 
afternoon with the customery Chinese rites--the clothing he 
had worn was burned on the grave and refereshments were 
provided to sustain him until the crossed the River Styx.

On Monday last, Sheriff Thompson arrested Foo Pete, a Chinaman 
who had formerly been a partner of the dead man and against 
whom incriminating evidence is said to have been obained that 
he is the assassin.

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