The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-30
KILLS HIMSELF
cHATTANooGAN CoMMITs SUI CIpE ON TRAIN.
Was En Route to Texas and Was Ac- companied by Woman-Had A Wife in the Tennes-
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body of a well-dressed man, weighing about 1855 pounds, and apparently 45 years old, with sandy mustache and hair, was taken from Southern train No. Il, vest bound, on arrival at Tuscumbia yesterday morning at 3:50 o'clock.
 From statements made by Conductor Martin Payne. who had charge of the train, the man had committed suicide just after leaving Trinity, station on the Southern thirty-five miles east of Tus- cumbia. When found by the conductor he was lying on a seat in the smoker dead, with hole entirely through. his head, and a 3s Smith & Wesson revolver. with which the deed was done, on the floor near the seat he coupled.
 The conductor says that he noticed the man in the smoker just as the train left Decatur. as he passed through the car collecting tickets. at which time he was sitting in an upright position on the seat near the front of the car. but after the train passed Trinity when he made his round through the same car he discovered the man lying in an unnatural position, and on investigation the conductor saw that his body was lifeless. and blood oozing for gaping wound near the left temple.
 On reaching Tuscumbia. the body was removed from the train and the ofhcials of the road notified His body lay in the depot until an early hour this morning, when it was turned over to an undertaken and prepared for burial. In the dead mans pocket, written on the back of an insurance envelope, "A. M. Cate, Chatta- nooga Telegraph w P. McBroom. Chat ta., Tenn"
 On the train was woman, Miss Belle Roehl of Hill City. Tenn. She wa stravel- ing with the dead man, and was held here by the sheriff of this country pending an inquest and full investigation. In her statement, made before a notary public. under oath, she said her name was Belle Rochl, and that she resided at Hill City, Tern, near Chattanooga, on Prospect Street. She was baking for the Wo- mans Exchange, and had no relatives at Hill City. She bought a ticket at Knox, vile for Sherman, Tex, Sunday, reach ing Chattanooga at Il o'clock that night. On the train she casually met the dead man. A. M. Cate, whom she was &C., quainted with, but had not seen for two weeks.
 He Is married man, living at Highland Park, Chattanooga, but she did not know his wife, and understood from city newspaper that she was visiting at some watering place. Cate had two children. He said in the same coach with her until about twenty minutes before he, killed himself, getting up and leaving the coach. stating that he would go into the smoker. A part of the time he occupied a seat with her, and part of the time sat on the seat just behind her. He was not drinking, and nothing he said in conver- sation indicated that he intended self destruction. Both had tickets to Sher- man, Tex, and the woman says she was going from Sherman to San Antonio for her health. She had no friends there and knew no one.
 When the conductor came around for tickets he took both hers and Gates, and as he handed 1t back. Cate took 1t, and folding it. put 1t in an envelope with bis ticket, and asked her to hand him hel purse and he would care for it for her She gave it to him. thinking nothing of it. It contained $30o5, diamond ring. bot. tie of perfume. keys and other small ar ticles. Cate also had bill of lading fol the woman's household goods, which she explained by saying he married a deal friend of hers and she had no one to lool after the shipping of the goods. Cate kind ly consented to do so on her request.
 The woman was released, the articles found on Gates body which she swort belonged to her, were returned to her and she went back to Chattanooga yes. terday afternoon on Southern train No 30. no charges being preferred against her.
 From Miss Roehl 1t was learned that Cate had been married three times, the last marriage having occurred last Jan. uary and that he had grown son living in Chattanooga She could give no- cause for the suicide. Miss Roehl seems to bt about 40 years of age. is tall and thin and not of prepossessing appearance. Va rious theories were advanced as to the cause of the suicide, but the general ac cepted one Is thatCate and the woman hat formed an attachment and agreed to leav, for Texas. and while en route remorst had consumed the man and in a momen of despondency. his thoughts reverting tC his family at Chattanooga and his deser ton of them, he placed the revolver tC his head and fired the shot that ended hi. life and his inward struggles.
 His son arrived in Tuscumbia at 20 o'clock yesterday afternoon and tool charge of the remains and had them ship per to Chattanooga for burnal. From tN, woman in the case 1t was learned tha the dead man held the position of fore man of the Lookout Flaming Mill at Chat tAnOoRa