1881 Tombstone, Arizona "Teamster" John Doe

In 1881 a Teamster (similar job to today's truck drivers) was killed by the Apaches in Cochise, Arizona.


SOURCES:
Find A Grave

Tombstone Chamber of Commerce 

March 30, 1881 Centerville, Iowa Newborn Girl

A woman posted a package in Camden and stated that the package was to be paid in Centerville, Iowa. On March 30, 1881, a package was delivered by the train. It was addressed to the county treasurer John Addison Pierson. He's gone to see if any packages were delivered for the county and did not expect this particular package. He paid for the pasteboard package and opened it in his office. Inside the package was a horrible sight the body of a newborn girl was wrapped in an old skirt.

It was obvious that the infant was born alive and was killed. The killer had put either concentrate lye or acid down the baby’s throat. Then the lye or acid was splattered on one side of her face and body. It was not a kind death.


It’s believed that the person who did this was possibly the infant's parents. It’s unknown why the crime wasn’t concealed and why it was sent to Centerville. Maybe they sent the body for a proper burial, but why murder the child in the first place then?


SOURCES:

Iowa Unsolved Murders 

Centerville Times

Centerville Times 

Nimrod Johnson Miller

Nimrod Johnson Miller was the Burnet County Sheriff in Texas he had served four years by the time he was 37. He had left on August 26, 1881 in search of and to arrest W.P. Brown who was a suspect in a murder in February 1976 . W.P. Brown was reported to be near Paul’s Valley in Indian Territory which would had been modern day Oklahoma.

Shortly after Sheriff Miller’s disappearance, his nephew, Deputy Sheriff L.J. Conner of Burnet County began a search for his Uncle. It was revealed that initially Sheriff Miller had traveled to Austin Texas where he was robbed, but had recovered his money. On August 30 he had left Sherman, Texas and was reported to be in Dennison, Texas September 1, 1881. The last time anyone had seen Sheriff Miller was at Caddo, Indian Territory trying to purchase a horse for the travel to Paul’s Valley.

After that it was unknown what had happened to the Sheriff til an Arkansas prisoner, Sam Paul, confessed that he witnessed Sheriff Miller's murder. He had said it had happened in Chickasaw county. If it is true then he was ambushed in Indian Territory and was killed by being shot by arrows. His body was never recovered.

There isn’t much information known about him. They don’t know his height or weight at the time or eye color or hair color. They didn’t even know what day he was born on just the year 1844.  

SOURCES:

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2343dmok.html

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29398869