The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-11-23

COOl. NE ulu hot ACT crazy, Dut as II
he had something on his mind that
was worrying him terribly"
Mrs. Elizabeth CAUSING, his mothen-
in-law, with whom he resided, was the
next witness, and her evidence was
substantially the same of his wife.
Mrs. Emma +. Mugford: 81 ann
the wife of deceased got up this morn.
ing at Z 20 and built the fire. My
husband had an appointment to meet
one of the employers Of The Southern
Pacific at 9 a. m. They had promised
that when they had a job out on the
road they would let him have it, and
ne was going to see about it. / told
him he need not ge; up till breakfast
was ready. He said, All right
After | had cooked the meal | went
went to the door and said: Ed, get
up He replied Ina minute
| went back to the table, and as moth
er was coming out of the pantry
heard shot, and asked her what it
was, She said it might be something
in the street. opened the bedroom
door and screamed, My God he's
shot himself | started toward him,
but fell to the floor before | could reach
the bed. In about half hour the
officer came. Husband always sept
WITH A PISTOL UNDER HIS HEAD.
although he never carried it during
the day. He and always lived very
peaceably together. Four years ego
he and my brother-in-law had some
misunderstanding while he was sick
in bed at my mothers in Leavenworth
but | supposed the trouble was all
over now. They have associated to-
gether, and seemed to be on good
terms up to the time of his death. /
have been married six years, and have
known him for ten years. He has
told me considerable about the plot he
thought the operators had formed to
take his life. Last Saturday he wrote
me letter, stating that if he did not
come home that night | might know
he was murdered. But he did come
home and | did not get the letter,
which he left at bookstore, with
the request not to have it mailed I'M
til the following Monday. In August
he went to the Office to work, in place
of an employee who had been put out
for month examination, and when
the man came back he was displeased
because my husband was there.
There has been hard feelings between
them ever since. | have never said,
since We came here, that he was tired
of life. He has been sick for several
years with consumption of the liver
but | never saw man try harder to
live than he has. / have a $4,000
policy on his life from a New York
firm. | have done all could for him,
and this is the very first crime / ever
knew him to commit. / cannot tell
why he did it."
DR.. /. f. COIN examined the body
and swore that he found a bullet-hole
in the back part of the occipital bone,
a little below the oecipital prOtuberance
in the median line of the body; the
bullet passed in ward and forward,
and lies embedded in the brain.
DEATH WAS INSTANTANEOUS.
The hair was singed, and the body lay
in a very unnatural position. He
said that at first glance the position of
the wound and its character looked
decidedly like murder. This position
of the body was very unnatural one
for suicide to take or maintain, lying
fiat on his back, with his head slight
ly turned to the left; but the best
authorities show that person about
to take his own life will use every
precaution not to disfgure his face.
81 was at first incliued to thetheOry
of murder, but since hearing the evil
dence i think is case of suicide. 1T
the weapon had been any larger than
the one used | should have unhesitat-
ing pronounced it murder"
Officer C.. II. Haskins swore that
he was summoned to the house at
about 8 so a. M, found the pistol
loaded with FIVE balls and one empty
shell, on his right side. Mr.. Haskins
exhibited the pistol, an Old-fashioned
''terror," so called, also the letter
written last Saturday to his wife, and
a copy of the one rendering his resig.
nation to X. K Hanes.
The verdict of the jury was that de-
ceased came to his death by pistol
shot, inflicted by his own hand while
suffering under temporary mental de-
rangement.
T.. w. Sinclair.
ID lt-.-.-la..l -.o.4o..la,- ,.,noirnl