Bisbee daily review., 1903-04-28
CASE OF SUICIDE
 OR BRUTAL MURDER
H. c. CUSHING FOUND DEAD IN
 UNFINISHED JAIL AT DOUGLAS
Was There From Cleveland, Ohio, and Seemed to be Of Despondent
 Nature-May Have Been Robbed

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 Douglas, April 27-The death of H. c Gushing which occurred here between the hours of 6 p. n. on Saturday and 2 a. m. Sunday. is attended by cir cumstances which enshroud the affair in mystery. His dead body was found in the new jail being constructed on Seventh street, by a man named Corenrmeyer. who is positive the man was dead and that the hour was not later than p. n. A revolver of the Iver-Johnson make lay at the lett side of the dead man and a bullet hole in his right temple showed the couse of death.
 Pomermeyer told a friend of the finding of a dead man and together they returned 10 the jail and saw him lying there. Strange to say. the au thorities were not notified at the time nor were they until Sunday morning when a boy. chancing to notice the body and the revolver beside 1t, re ported the case.
 Coroner Johnson at once impanelled a jury and after viewing the remains, ordered the dead man removed to Washiu gton's undertaking parlors on Tenth street. Dr. Randall was called in and extractet a 3S-calibre bullet from just beneath the skin at the left lem pie. The path of the missile had been straight through the brain. causing instantaneous death.
 H. c. Cushing. the dead man. was the son of Dr. Cushing of Cleveland, Ohio, and came west for his health some twelve years ago, locating at Deming. New Mexico. where he is we'll known. Ever since his arrival at Deming, Gushing has received a monthly re mittance from home. some say s100 per month and others. inti- mate with him. claim he has received as much as s35l
 He drifted into gambling. probably as much to occupy his time as faro dealer in Deming and Lordsburg. reserved. Cushing made few intimates and his closest friends learn ed nothing Of his lita aside from his family connections. He vase consid- cred a very peculiar man by those who were associated with him in every day life.
 About two or three years ago. he made the acquaintance at Deming Of g woman named Vera Boyd, and since that time has consorted with her. She came to Douglas about two or three months ago. Cushing following her. He arrived in this on the ,hord of the present month. Shortly after his arrival he became financially embar- rassed but this fact is not looked up on by his friends as the cause of his suicide, if suicide it is, for he found DO trouble in procuring funds from those who knew Of his financial re- source.
 For three days prior 10 his death, ha seemed to be in Q despondent frame of mind and Saturday took to drinking heavily. When last seen alive by the Boyd woman, he was asleep on 6 bed n the parlor house of Sadie Fisher on H avenue. Between and 6 o'clock he was missed by the inmates of the house and his dead body found in the Jail building soon after. The report of his death did not reach the Fisher house until Sunday morning. when it x9ga hor one found beside Cushing was missing.
 When found, the body Of Gushing lay with the feet toward the door of he jail, the head in a pool of clot- led blood, resting on a mortar board hear an inner partition wall of the ail His hat. lying nearby. bore the marks of powder. A strange feature 1f the case lies in the fact that the bullet from the revolver entered the head at the right tmple while Cush- ng is known to have been left-handed The revolver was also found at the eft side of the dead body.
 Another phase Of the case. which s puzzling many, is the testimony of Emmett Hogan, a friend of the de- who states positively that he saw Cushing at 10 or II o'clock on night. Not much is laid on his statement, however. as all those vho saw the body at an earlier hour Saturday evening are quiet positive hat it was the body of the dead man.
 Srtong suspicious were noised about ,n s;Geay t.a. ]. x..s : ccSS Ss r2=- fer and that the murderer hal ilarn- ad carefully to conceal his come ction with the crime. But this ~suspicion sas but little to sustain it in the ace of the fact that all the blood ound in or near the jail was found iirectly beneath the dead mans head ,r under the mortar board where it lad trickled.
 Word was received from the father 'f the dead man requesting that the 'emains of Alleyne Cushingcb&l1r pared for shipment to-cfeSefshn@. Ohio. o be inferred there. Dr-W. E. Cush-