Arizona republican., 1905-06-04
RUINED LIFE ENDED
Suicide of Il. |. COnIey of
 SeIigman
Shot Himself at Indian Reservation Below the City A Statement and a Confession.

H. L. Conley, late Santa Fe agent at Seligman. committed suicide by shooting at Pointers store on the In dian reservation, twelve miles below the city yesterday afternoon. Informa- tion of the tragedy was received by Acting Coroner Burnett early yester- day evening. He left as soon as pos sible for the reservation and ordered a dead wagon to bring the body to town.
 The telephone message stated that Conley left Phoenix yesterday morning driving a single horse and along in the afternoon he entered the store and having stood for a short time drew a revolver and shot himself through the heart. He left what was described by the message as a confession" the nature of which was not then made known to the acting coroner. It related in some way to man by sthe name of Summers, who was said by Conley in the document to be connected with Wells Fargo & Go.
 Judge Burnett asked Captain Con- nell the local superintendent of Wells Fargo & Co. about Summers. He said that there were two men of the name of Summers in the service of the com pany, though not here. One of them is a route agent. Captain ConneII knew nothing of Conley.
 At first nothing could be learned of ConIey here but later in the evening when J. H. Hopkins, night clerk of the Hotel Adams, came on duty and heard of the suicide he said that he knew Conley well. He himself had lived in Seligman and saw the man all most daily.
 The train from the north brought COnley yesterday morning. MT. Hop kins saw him at the desk registering He himself was near the stairway but he recognized Conley by his general shape. Walking behind the desk he called him by name and held out his hand. Conley was manifestly startled but gathering himself together he told MT. Hopkins that he was in error. He said that his name was H. l.. Living ston and that he had come from Perry, la He had probably intended to reg ister by his right name and would have done so but for MT. Hopkins recogni- tion of him, for plainly under the let ter "'L" there is a "C." After having written Con" he wrote the other name over it.
 
 room he said that he would go down town for a short time He returned about six o'clock in the morning, bought a morning paper and talked about the war. Later in the morning he told MT. Hopkins that he desired to take a. drive into the country and asked him to telephone for a horse and bug gy. MT. Hopkins got one from the Golden Eagle stables and ConIey left, saying that he would return in an hour.
 Right here MT. Hopkins had a pre- sentiment which was strangely full filled. It was based upon his knowI- edge of the habits of Conley who gambled at times and was a heavy plunger. Mir. Hopkins had known him to use company money and afterwards make a winning and so square himself. MT. Hopkins therefore surmised that he had been losing heavily and that he had come to Phoenix to see if he could not recoup. He thought that he might have been playing between the time of his first arrival at the hotel and his return at six o'clock; that he had lost and that he was going out into the country to commit suicide.
 So strongly had this notion taken hold of MT. Hopkins that he was on the point of refusing to order the horse