HAM GEE
Arizona Republican Newspaper
June 27, 1897

For several years an old Chinaman named Ham Gee has been 
prospecting around Steeple Rock.  Recently he with a couple of 
other Chinamen has been living in a cabin some distance from the 
village of Steeple Rock. His two partners came into Steeple 
Rock to visit with some of their fellow countrymen.    On 
Sunday, the 13th, his dogs came in and seemed to try and 
attrack the attention of one of his partners, Charlie Hay, 
but did not make him  understand what he wanted.  Tuesday 
the partners went out to the camp and found the old man 
sitting in the doorway of the cabin with a bowl of rice 
between his legs and a bullet wound in his breast. He was 
dead.  The things in the cabin were all turned upside down, 
the murderer evidently having gone through it on a hunt 
after valuables. His partners were arrested for the killing 
but they were discharged as it was evident they were in 
Steeple Rock at the time he was killed.

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