Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Burkes, John 1901
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Arizona Republican-July 11 ,1901
Early this morning a coroner's jury was summoned to 
investigate a death that occurred at the Prescott Hotel 
under suspicious circumstances.  The case was that of 
a man named John Burkes, who was at one time constable 
at Jerome and more recently was justice of the peace. 
He was found to have come to his death from the effects 
of an overdose of morphine, which drug he had been in 
the habit of taking to allay violent pains in the region 
of his heart.  The drug had been prescribed by Dr. Woods 
of Jerome to his patient at various times prior to his 
coming over here.

The jury was rather undecided, it seems as to whether 
to call it a suicide or a death from natural causes, 
owning to the deceased haivng a chronic affection of 
the heart.  Burkes complained last night upon retiring 
at 10 o'clock of violent pain and was known to afterwards 
take three separate doses of morhine. His body was taken 
to the undertaking parlors of S.A. Logan at an early hour 
this morning.

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