Ed BARRETT
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Yavapai Co.
June 5, 1895

At 9:30 o'clock Sunday night Constable Dickinson was directed 
to the switch track east of the depot where he found the body 
of a man lying near the rails. He was in a semi conscious 
condition but was rational enough to mutter indistinctly that 
he had jumped from a moving train. He said that his name was 
Ed Barrett and that he was a barber by trade, but before the 
officer could glean anyting further the injured man swooned 
away. He was taken to the county hospital and Dr. D.J. Brannen 
was called to attend to him.  The doctor found that the back 
of the head had been terribly fractured and made the man as 
comfortable as possible.  He lived about three hours.

A regular army discharge, issued to San Francisco was found 
upon the dead man's person.  The name on the paper is Charles 
F. Black and gives his age as 34 and the place of birth as 
Weston Missouri.  The unfortunate man carried with him a small 
valise which contained barbers' tools nad a few articles of 
clothing. He had bene working at Williams and Ash Fork 
recently and was in town Sunday.  Why he should have jumped 
from the train is beyond theory unless he found himself 
going on the wrong driection.

Coroner Prime held an inquest at which the jury rendered a 
verdict that Barrett or Black, died from a wound in the back 
of the head caused by jumping from a moving train.

Undertake Whipple endeavored to find realtives of the dead man 
and after considerable expense in telegraphing, found his 
brother, Harris Black at Edgerto, Missouri but he refused to 
do anything for the dead brother and the body was buried in 
Potter's Field.

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