GEORGE FOSTER
Arizona Republican Newspaper
October 10, 1890

Tucson--The Coroner's inquest of George Foster met this 
morning at 10 o'clock and important testimony was adduced.  
Some Mexican boys testified that hey saw Foster under some 
cottonwood trees back of the Osborn place, asleep, his 
shoes and coat off.  He was lying on the coat using the 
shoes as a pillow.  Dr. Spencer testified that he did not 
drown, as there was no water in his lungs.  Examination of 
the stomach revealed no crystals of strychnine but no 
analysis showed the presence of the drug in quantities 
sufficient to kill though how much can only be estimated 
by the quantity missing from the bottle, some seven or 
eight grains.  The Doctor says that persons poisoned by 
strychnine have no desire for water and that the only 
reason that the deceased could have for entering the stream 
would be to make death sure if not from poison, from 
drowning.