The St. Johns herald., 1898-08-06
A SUNDAY SUICIDE. Cause fer tho Act not Apparent Though Supposed to Have Been
 lnVn Affair.

' Moritz Rosenberger committed suicide by shooting himself in the forehead with a 3S cs fiber Smith 6l Wesson re- yolver. Though the young man had threatened the night before to take his own life 1t was thought to be an idle remark and little attention had been paid to it. He was very fond of the gambling table and for the most part was considered lucky in hIs operations. ! Lately he had been losing some, but ; woe "0tr1 tho condition, oF or,,Hn~~n SC n... suffered. as le had numerous friends to whom he could apply for as- sistaHce.
 Yesterday morning about 9 o'clock he was seen iH tho Palace saloon and seemed to be in his usual spirits and asked friend to fake a drink with him. An hour or so later the stage driver on the Black Canyon road brought word to town that he had dis covered the body of dead man lying beside the ditch under cottonwood tree near the road that runs east and west by the Christy ranch. The body lay about 200 yards west of the juncrion Of this road with the Black Canyon road.
 Coroner Johnstone was informed and empanelling the following jury went out to the place where the body lav. R. Grisby, Ernest Ford. S. J. Darby, ". A. Moeur, George BeIlis and John Bassett.
 Alter viewing the remains they sd- journed to meet this morning at 10 o'clock. The body when found was still limp. the dead man lying on his back, nis feet close together and across winch lay the weapon from which was ] fired the fatal shot. The bullet en- ! tered but did not leave the head, thus making but one wound on the surface. 1 The face was somewhat powder burned and the right hand badly and the left hand slightly burned and he had tied a 1 handkerchief over his eyes to hide the i view of the weapon. He had evidently held the barrel of the weapon in his right hand and pulled the trigger with tine left hand.
 That the young man had fully made up hIs mind to commit suicide is fur ther evidenced by the fact that the evening pre 5ious he gave the address of his sister to Max, clerk at the New York store. Max asked him why he gaveit 10 him and if he was going away. Ir- replied that he was going to leave .t.e country Ii.Ie vas thought about it as Nuljtz was quite traveller and but two or three weeks sIrce had re- turned from trip embracing nearly all the cities throughout the north. He had also been trying 10 secure a long biaded knife the evening before and a knife of that description was found on the body.
 The verdict of the coronor's jury aside from the formal opening and closing was as follows:
 "After hearing the evidence adduced upon our oath We find and say, that the dead body which we inspected on the Isaacs road one mile north of PhG- nix was the body Of one Moritz Rosen- burg native of Bavaria, aged about 3l years and that he died July 24th, 1898. about 10 o'clock a. m., and that he came to his death from the effects of a pistol shot having been fired by his own hands with suicidal intent. TEere is still another story to the effect t1at he who sings in one of the Washington street saloons and that of late their relations had not been as pleasant as formerly. This story. however is de- nied by some of his friends, and there is no evidence of it save idle gossip.
 Mir. Rosenberger came here from New Orleans about six years ago and most of the time since then he has been em- ployed in the Palace Cigar store where he has made many friends and was unlformally pleasant and agreeable. He had lived great part of hls life in America. He leaves a mother. two brothers and married sister, Mrs Max Schneider to whom telegram was sent yesterday asking instructions. 4 reply was received last nightreqnest- . ing particulars and authorizing ta5 , emUJlmIug oF the body rul..aaL been turned over to ". A. DAVIS. ,.,tAeI telegraphic instr ctiOns are awaited from the relatives who are believed to be quite wealthy.