Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-09-24
4 Bullet i'm the Brain.
GRAHAM, A FARMER AND
STOCK DEALER, DIES BY
HIS OWN HAND.
Financial and Family Troubles Sup-
posed to Have Been the Cause
Deeply in Debt-Used
Navy Revolver.

Charlie Graham, a farmer liv-
ing about six miles north of Mex
leo, shot himself Monday at s a. m.
over the right a with a large
navy pistol, which he had Jar.
ried during the war. John Lo-
gan, colored, was the only par
ty near when Mr.. Graham killed
himself. When Mr.. Graham hot
himself he was in the stable lot
just back of the granery. John
Logan was on the other side OF the
house. He did not see the act but
heard the report. Logan says
that Mr.. Graham had been acting
in q very nervous manner for the
last week or two, and this morn
ing was looking especially bad.
Logan says that Graham and mis-
wife did not live happily together
and on one OCCASION Charley told
him ''you have no idea how In
happy 1 I'M at home" Logan
says that just before Charley shot
himself he hallowed to him and
told him to hitch up tie team and
they would 60 out to work and the
next thing he heard was the report
Of the revolver. A reporter of the
LEDGER, on visiting Mr.. Graham's
residence, found that Mr.. Graham
was unconscious but not dead. He
had shot himself over the right
ear and was evidently bleeding to
death and could notsspossibly re-
cover. He died at II O'Clock.
Through a mistake the coroner
was sent for instead of a physician
and another party had to be sent
to town to secure medical aid. The
LEDGER man had a talk with Mr..
Graham's daughter, Octavia, who
is 20 years old. She seemed to be
very cheerful and not much fretted
at the sad death of her father and
during her conversation with the
editor of the LEDGER allowed her
self to be prompted almost alto
gether by her mother. She said
that her father was in a good hu-
NOR and that he had had no words
with her mother in regard to
money matters nor anything else.
She claimed that her father and
mother lived together very happl.
ly in the past. Mrs. Graham, who
is a daughter of the Widow Kear-
ney, said that Charley had appear
ed very nervous during the last
day or so, and last night told her
that he was still having trouble
about a mower and reaper, which
he had bought years ago and about
which he had a law suit at the
time. She said that she didn't
know anything about MI. Ora
hams business at all; that she
owned the farm and everything on
it, and she was satisfied that Mr..
Graham swed some money but
that was none of her affair. She
said that she lived as happily as
other married people, and that she
had not noticed any change in Mr..
Graham this morning, that at the
breakfast table she had asked him
for some money that she was going
to town to buy some goods. She
said that he handed her his pocket
book, which contained $l2. He
then went out to the field to work,
but shortly afterwards came back
to the stable, where he shot him
self. She said that neither her
self nor daughter were near whel
he killed himself, and that only
the colored man was out at the
stable. Mrs. Graham did not ap
pear to be cut up much about hel
husbands death, but seemed to bs
anxious to have those present I'm
derstand that she and her HUSBAND
had lived pleasantly together. Sh'
said that he must have secured nj
revolver early in the morning be
fore she was up, as he had no
been in the room where he kept i
since that time. As a matter o
fact, Mr.. Graham was arrested yes
terdsy and charged with obtainin'
money under false ~pretenses from
A. G.. Armstrong and others OF thl
city. Mr.. Graham owed a grea
deal of money in Mexico, and wha
he did with his money is q quer.
Q which no one can answer. He boz
rowed $500 in April, 1891, from MI
A. G.. Armstrong and at the sam
8 time he borrowed money from 9th
9 er parties in this city, giving
mortgage on cattle which he claim
ed 10 own in Monroe county. o
investigation it was found that b
never owned the cattle. and IL
this reason he was arrested in Ne,
II leo yesterday and gave S1,OOO bonn
Nh. Graham had q, 600 lite insu