PEDRO QUIROZ
Arizona Republican Newspaper
July 29, 1909

The Arizona Star relates the following Pima County grievance:

"For many years particularly Cochise County, have made it a 
point to dump their dead and dying onto Pima County and it is 
high time htat a stop is put to this practice."  This was the 
statement made by the district attorney to a Star representative 
yesterday in discussing the murder of Pedro Quiroz, a Mexican 
section hand at Sybil, Cochise County, Sunday as told exclusively 
in the Star.

Mr. Dick continued: "Whenver there is a murder or any other 
violent death on the Southern Pacific Railroad, the bodies are 
always brought to this county for disposition.  There will no 
inquisition into the death of the man Quiroz because the 
tragedy was committed at a point out of Pima County's 
jurisdictions and it is up to the Cochise County authorities 
to handle the case."

The body of Quiroz was buried yesterday by the Parker 
Undertaking Company of this city.  When Coroner Dafton was 
notified of the death of the man he announced there would be 
no inquest and will make every effort to apprehend Quiroz's 
murderer.

Details of the murder remain mysterious.  From the condition 
of the victim it is believed here that he was riding on the 
top of a train when he was shot.  Fellow workers of the 
murdered man are mysteriously silent concenring any knowledge 
of the tragedy.  All say that the murder is as much of a 
mystery to them as it is to the authorities and they are 
at a loss to know whi his assailant could have been.

Jose Appise is held in the county jail at Tombstone as a 
suspect having been arrested at Fairbanks.