D.J. PORTER
Arizona Republican Newspaper
December 27, 1898

Wine and women caused D.J. Porter to take his life says the Jerome 
Reporter.  Sunday morning between the hours of 8 and 9, the landlady 
of the Morgan's Lodging House was attracted by groans as if from 
someone in distress.  Acting upon the intuitive impulse  a search 
was made which revealed D.J. Porter in a condition beyond human 
aid.  Dr. Woods was summoned immediately but to no avail as the 
dying man breathed his last soon after the doctor's arrival.  His 
remains were interred in the Jerome Burial grounds at 11 o'clock 
Thursday.

Porter was 38 years of age and a native of Kentucky.  Later in 
life he moved to Gallup, N.M.  In this neighborhood he amassed a 
small fortune dealing in sheep. He sold his band to Scott Brothers 
of that place for $10,000.

With this apparent good fortune, d.J. Porter set about to invest 
his capital in a way that would bring him a handsome income. He 
set up a liquor and gambling establishment at Gallup, N.M. from 
this he drifted into the society of bad women.  Porter bade his 
heart in wine and women until his fortune was gone and he 
realized that he was despised, not only by those that caused 
his downfall but by himself as well.

Judge St. James impaneled a jury.

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