Grant LeBarr
John H. Stoop
Arizona Republican Newspaper
December 25, 1890

Prescott--John H. Stoop who shot and killed Grant LeBarr 
at the Peck Mine Sunday was arrested by Deputy Sheirff 
Hickey and placed in jail here yesterday.

He admitted the killing and his preliminary examiniation 
was set for December 26.

This morning about 9 o'clock while one of the prisoners 
in the jail was shaving himself, he laid the razor down 
to wash his face.  Stoop picked it up and went to his cell 
and slashed himself across the throat from ear to ear.  As 
soon as he committed the deed he ran out in the corrider 
sank to the floor and expired within five minutes.  

After being placed in jail Stoop sent for an attorney but 
when attempting to explain the circumstances of the killing 
he broke down and the attorney was compelled to leave 
without an interview.

Stoops Suicide
Arizona Republican newspaper
December 2, 1890

The sequel to the murder committed at Alexandra, on Sunday 
night was enacted in the county jail, yesterday morning by 
the suicide of John M. Stoops, the murderer of Grant 
Le Barr.  All the prisoners in the jail except John Chart 
and Stoops were outside carrying wood into the court 
house at the time the deed was committed.  Willis Austin, 
a prisoner had just finished shaving previous to going 
out for the above purpose and had laid his razor, a 
narrow thin bladed instrument, down on the window.  
Taking advantage of the absence of the other prisoners, 
Stoops picked the razor up, and going to a cell on the 
east side of the jail, slashed himself across the throat, 
cutting it from ear to ear, severing both jugular vein 
and windpipe.  The act was apparently committed while 
he was sitting on a mattress.  When about becoming 
unconscious he apparently arose and walked out into 
the corridor where he fell face downward, with a 
death grip on the razor, and where he was found by 
Chart.  After being discovered, he only gave one or 
two gasps when life was extinct.  Chart immediately 
gave the alarm, when the body was taken to Grassley 
and Company undertaking rooms and an inquest held 
before Justice Fleury, the jury returning a verdict 
in accordance with the facts as above.

Stoops is spoken of as an industrious, hard-working miner, 
and a man who previous to this had never been in any trouble 
since his residence in this county.  He seemed to feel 
deeply the situation he was in and the act semed to 
have been prompted soley from remorse of conscience, 
rather than a dread or fear of the consequences of his 
murderous deed.  The purpose to commit the acts seemed 
to have been formed on seing Austin preparing to shave, 
as the latter states that while he was engaged in 
sharpening his razor, Stoops looked intently at him 
for a few minutes and immediately went and borrowed 
pencil and paper from the prisoners and went to his 
cell and wrote an order on Sheriff O'Neil to pay 
Johnny Robinson $200 out of money he had in the 
former's safe, the order being found in his pocket 
after death.