WOOD PORTER
Arizona Republican Newspaper
June 25, 1892

Florence--F.C. Kibbey shot and dangerously wounded W. Wood 
Porter at 6:30 pm today.  The shooting took place on Main 
Street in front of J.B. Hawley's store. Porter was shot 
three times, the shots taking effect in his lungs.  Porter 
is resting easy but the doctor says there is little hope 
and that he will probably die before morning.  After the 
shooting Kibbey gave himself up to the sheriff and is now 
in custody.

Late last night information reached Phoenix that Porter was 
dead and a reporter was sent to call on the friends and 
relatives of both parties.  They knew nothing of the affair 
other than it had occurred.  A telegram was received for 
Judge Porter who lives with Mr. Walker on Yuma Street.  
The judge is now at Santa Rosa Cal and the news of his 
son's death was telegraphed him there.  Mr. Kibbey and 
wife were in the city day before yesterday.  Porter left 
for Florence yesterday morning.  Kibbey is a brother of 
Judge Kibbey, a justice of the territory.

June 26, 1892

W. Wood Porter is still alive but the doctor has little hopes 
of his recovery.  It is alleged by Kibbey's friends that the 
cause of the trouble between Kibbey and Porter was the 
criminal intimacy of the later wit the formers wife, she 
having made a confession to her husband.  Mrs. Kibbey is 
now lying prostrate and at death's door.  Porter has been 
too weak to make a statement. He has always been regarded 
as a excellent young man.

July 10, 1892

Mr. Wood Porter died at 2:40 this morning having been in a 
comatose state for four hours previous.  The body was sent 
to Jackson Mississippi for burial.  The coroner's jury 
rendered a verdict that he came to his death by a gun shot 
wound inflicted by F.C. Kibbey on June 24.