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H. C. YARROW. 
1878, or ’80, in Tip-Top Mining Gamp, Arizona, he saw a Gila 
monster bite a man by the name of Johnny Bostick, who at the 
time was under the influence of liquor. That he took hold of the 
Heloderma and shoved his finger at it, and the reptile seized his 
finger, and its jaws had to be pried open before he could disen¬ 
gage his finger. The ITeloderma was 22 inches long and lay on 
the card table. It was also seen by a man named Lou Smith, and 
a lot of Italian miners. Immediately Mr. John Bostick drank 
large quantities of liquor, and from the effects of the bite one 
side was paralyzed, and he died in about three months, April 19, 
1878. I hereby certify that the above statement is correct. 
(Signed) G. J. Hayes.” 
Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public, this 19th day of April, 
1886.— S. P. Guiberson, Notary Public for Yeutura County, Cal. 
The second affidavit, which follows, differs somewhat from 
the first, but relates to the same individual. The query is, was 
the Heloderma bite the cause of death or was it the whiskey so 
lavishly administered. 
State of California, County of Ventura.—R. C. Carleton who first being 
duly sworn, deposes and says that he was present at the time and knows of his 
own knowledge, that Johnny Bostick, of Tip-Top, Arizona, was bitten by a Gila 
monster, from the effects of which he afterwards died. That the Gila monster 
seized one of the fingers or thumb of the said Johnny Bostick, and that in order 
to disengage the reptile the boys cut its head off. That deponent thinks it occurred 
in 1883. Subscribed and sworn to before me this first day of December, 1886.— 
R. C. Carleton. 
S. P. Guiberson, Notary Public. (A true copy). 
In conversing with Dr. F. Y. Ainsworth, U. S. A., who has 
had a large experience in Arizona, upon the subject of the bite of 
the Gila monster, he informed the writer that he had heard of a 
case of death from the bite of this reptile, but that his brother 
Frank K. Ainsworth was conversant with the details, and he 
obligingly offered to write and procure full particulars. From 
the letter which follows, it will be seen that the case is reported 
by Dr. G. E. Goodfellow of Tombstone, Arizona, to Dr. Ains¬ 
worth : 
I 
Tombstone, July 23, 1887 .—My dear Ainsworth: I at last am ready to reply 
to your letter concerning “ snakes.” The Fairbanks case was as follows: Veager, 
