The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-08
ALL THE CITY Is SAD.
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about $1,000 worth-and that they had
been stolen from the vault at the city
hail. 1 do not know whether any one
eiese had the combination to the city
nan vault except by heresay. i first
heard OF his trouble about 1 80 on Sum
day. l noticed that he looked awful
bad The whole family was sick and 1
TOLD him that he looked worse than all
the rest and that he should cheer up.
he went down town and Krfound out
tne cause OF his trouble. I went down
town at o'clock that afternoon and
found him working at his books. He
went home about O'clock When /
left him at 10 o'clock on Sunday night
ne was lying or the bed smoking and 1
left word to watch him. He got up and
locked his door during the night. He
got up at GAS yesterday. morning and
drank cup OF coffee and left the
house. -
/ understand that IL he could have
round the warrants which he said had
been stolen 1t would have Strengthened
out his books. I positively think that
he was laboring under At of tempo
rary insanity when left him on sun
day night. I do not know that he left
a paper or anything behind, to explain
his financial standing. or why he COM
mitted this rash act
Achflle Langevin, who was clerk in
Mr.. Jacobs store. testified as follows:
II saw Mr.. Jacobs last alive at the
store at tbs yesterday morning. It
was unusual for him to come down so
early and I asked him how his brother
Dcoley was. He said that he was
pretty well. He looked exhausted and
said he did not feel well. i told him
he did not look well. He unlocked the
safe and sat in a chair o. minute. He
went out and then cameoback'affd said
he would take d walk. He hsd been
complaining of his head for three
weeks. When he was talking the pain
would take him and he would forget
what he was talking about. He would
often go out to rest, and ! thought be
had gone out to take a rest yesterday
morning. He had been troubled this
way for a year. He often told me dur
ing the past three weeks that he was
going crazy. I thought IT was ON ac-
count of his brothers sickness. There
was no gun in the safe and he never
carried one. think that he. was in
sane when he did the shooting. He
told me nothing of his troubles and
knew nothing of his books. He was
well satisfied with his brother and
trusted him implicitly. was certainly
surprised when / heard OF his death.
1 thought he might have dropped dead
from rush of blood to the brain when
we could not find him. There was a
gun in one of the store drawers. do
not know whether it is there now or
=
not recognize it," The witness was
sent to the store after the revolver but
was unable to find it. The sscabbard
was still in the drawer but the gun was
gone. -.
Andrew Abrahamson, Charles John
son, c. j. Stevenson, James Lynch, w.
A.. Mannion; Sheriff Reynoldss Mrs.
Helena Dell. DEPUTY Sher1f sGeary and
d. H. Overly testified to factssin con-
nection with tfs Adiscovery Of the body
that are "a Ready we'll knowrk5X HE jury
returned the narrowing verdlct:F
THAT Simon Jacobs was44&Und dead
in the old blacksmith shon<4t 0he An
selma mine in. Butte on Monday, May
6. 1895. ,.SE
THAT when discovered the body. was
lying on its left side, the face. in q pool
of blood, a 41-calibre pistol, with three
empty chambers, one of wffeh had
been very recently discharged, under
meath the body A wound in the head,
evidently made by a bullet entering at
the right temple and coming out near
the left temple. passing in its course |
through the brain, gives con- |
elusive proof of the cause of death. |
THE jury find upon examinatlon of |
witnesses that Simon jacobs WAS in |
great financial distress ana unable to |
meet his heavy monetary liabilities; |
that this fact. so preyed upon his mind |
that his reason was unsettled.
Therefore. this jury find thatt Simon |
Jacobs, by means of a 41-calibre revolt |
yer, took his own life while laboring |
under a temporary fit of insanity"