Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Collings, Eugene E. 1901 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/az/azfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: D. Joshua Taylor http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00006.html#0001358 and Elizabeth Burns July 17, 2005, 2:35 pm Arizona Republican-Feb. 10, 1901 EUGENE E. COLLINS February 10, 1901 Arizona Republican Newspaper About 5 o'clock yesterday morning a man was found dead in his room at the Golden Rule Lodging House. He was a recent arrival and seemingly had no acquaintances except the few who knew him about the lodging house. The matter was reported to Coroner J.M. Burnett, who summoned a jury and viewed the remains which were then taken to the undertaking parlors. A careful scrutinizing of his effects afforded but slight information regarding the dead man and even cast some doubt upon what his name might be. He seems to have been going under the name of Eugene E. Conners as he had letters of introduction in that name from Pat Yaney, formerly well known here, and a man named Moore, proprietor of the Lone Star Club Room in Salt Lake City, to Gus H. Hirshfeld and P.w. Butler, though the letters were never presented to those gentlemen. He was in the last stage of consumption when he arrived here and a subscription paper in his pocket showed that his friends in Salt Lake City had contributed enough money to send him to Phoenix where he hoped to be benefited by the climate. A little purse was found beneath his pillow but there was nothing in it and no money was found among his effects. He had two suits of clothes and a good overcoat. Among his possessions was a letter that gave rise to the doubt about his right name. It was written by the foreman of the Burlington and Missouri river Railway shops at Lincoln Nebraska and recommended E.E. Collins as a first class workman and an honest and capable man. The letter also stated that the bearer had come to the employment of the writer from the Southern Pacific Railroad shops at Sacramento where he was also well recommended. The opinion of the coroner is that Conner was his right name and that being a railroad man he assumed the name of Collins after the big strike, many railroad men having changed their names at that time in order to more easily secure employment. The verdict of the coroner's jury was death from natural causes. His Salt Lake City friends were telegraphed to, relative to the disposition of the remains. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/az/statewide/obits/c/collings286gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/azfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb