WALTER McDONALD
Arizona Republican Newspaper, Phoenix
July 9, 1901

A sad incident occurred at Morenci on the Fourth which 
cast a shadow over the festivities of the day and the 
particulars of which have just been learned in Phoenix.  
Walter McDonald, an engineer in the employ of the 
Detroit Copper Company was accidentally killed by a 
deputy sheriff.  During the progress of the ball game, 
the deputy sheriff had occasion to arrest a man who was 
disturbing everyone by his boisterous conduct.  The 
officer pulled his gun and cocked it as the prisoner 
resisted somewhat, but finally put the gun back in 
his pocket still cocked.  A little later he was 
called upon to arrest anohter drunk, who started 
to fight.  The deputy pulled his gun to strike the 
man when his finger caught in the trigger and the 
gun went off, the bullet striking McDonald, who was 
an innocent bystander, in the abdomen causing his 
death a short time afterward.