Walter J. Smith
Arizona Silver Belt
March 20, 1896

Walter J. Smith, of the firm of Smith and Grum, was murdered at 
Miunehaha Flats on the 13th says the Gazette.  Two men entered 
the store and both fired at the proprietor, who tried to run 
toward them.  They kept shooting and their victim fell dead 
while passing through the side door. Mr. Lapham, his clerk, 
was clubbed into insensibility with a gun and the loose change 
of the store was taken.  They could not get into the safe.

Fred Grum, the partner, was not at home. Mr. Lapham came to 
presently, but the assassins had gone, Mr. Button at whose house 
was Fred Grum, mounted a horse and reached Phoneix on Sunday 
morning. He gave additional information to the sheriff, who had 
been notified by sheriff Ruffner of Prescott.  The clerk says 
one, probably both of the men were Mexicans.

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