The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-14
A TRAGEDY IN B0zEMAA
G. E. Sutton, Prominent At
torney, Commits Suicide.
HAD GROWN DESPONDENT.
BrooGed Over the Condition of HIS
Health and Inability to Attend
to His Business Hanged
and Shot Himself,
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard
Bozeman, Nov. 13.-One of the sad
dest tragedies in the history Of Boze-
man occurred to-day about noon, when
Charles f. Sutton, a prominent and
' ell-known and popular member of the
Bozeman bar, committed suicide by
shooting and hanging himself in the
stairway Of his house, just north of the
court house.
Mr.. sutton, some six weeks ago. was
operated upon for appendicitis, since
which time he has been very despond-
ent over his condition. 1t Is thought
that broodng over his health and in
ability to attend to business caused
him to commit the rash act. He was
down at his office for several hours this
morning talking with clients and had
made an appointment for 2 o'clock
with one. He then walked home arriv-
ing there about II o'clock Before leaN-
ing his nome he complained of pain IN
his side. Mrs. Sutton went down town
to do some marketing and also to find
her husband and returned home lit
tie before noon, but found the doors Ut
the house locked. She became very
anxious and climbed through a win
dow. On entering the house she smelt
some chloroform and thought her hus-
band had taken some to relieve his
pain. She searched all the rooms down
sairs for him in vain and started thea
to go upstairs, and there, as though in
the act Of walking down. she saw him.
Thinking he was coming down to meet
her. she spoke to him, but receiving no
reply she went up closer and found he
L.,
tached to a halustrade at the head OF
the stairs and that the blood was flow
ing from his lips
With an affrighted cry, the wife ran
out of the house and called on neigh
bors for help. Ed Hanley. BoyIes and
others were soon on the scene, but
found life was extinct. Walter S. Hart
man, Sheriff Fransham,. DR.. Foster and
other friends cut the body down and
laid it on the bed and awaited the cor
oner's inquest and in doing SO found
that a 22-caliber revolver had been
fired in the mouth. penetrating the
brain and causing instant death.
The rope around his neck was a piece
of one-eighth-inch rope and piece Of
flshlne doubled, which had cut deep
into his neck. His feet We're in posi-
ton which gave the idea of his walking
downstairs with his head throw back,
as he was quite tall man.
The deceased was born near Logans-
port, Ind, about As years ago. He
graduated from the law department of
Ann Arbor in 1879 and was for some
time the principal of the Dell Rapids.
S. D.. public schools He came to
Bozeman in 1892 and in 1898 married
Miss Kate Cantwell whom he had met
in Dell Rapids. During the winter of
1884 he and his wife taught the Big
Timber public schools. For some time
he was the law partner of B. s.
Thresher of Butte and of W. L. Hollo-
way of this city. He was member OF
the X. of P. lodge and of Bozeman lodge
No. Is, A.. F. and A. NJ. and his life
was insured for about $4,000. He leaves
a little girl, aged 5, and a widow, be-
sides relatives in Indiana. to mourn his
untimely death.