Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-07-28
SAD SUICIDE.
Young Corvallis Woman Takes
Her Own Life-Cause a Deep
Mystery.

mystery.
The people of Corvallis were
severely shocked Tuesday even
ing upon the announcement of
the suicide of one whose appar-
entity happy condition of life
preclude the possibility of such
an act. All who know Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Lacy have been i'm
pressed with the devotion mani
tested each to the other; their
situation was financially such as
should have been entirely salts
factory; they owned their home;
Mr.. Lacy had employment.
Monday Mr.. and Mrs. Lacy re-
turned from a pleasant visit with
friends and relatives in Wash
ingion state, having also visited
the Exposition and Mrs. Lacy's
parents in Polk county. Both
are highly esteemed by their ac-
quaintances, and all their known
surroundings were such as to
Justify the belief that the Lacy
home was one of the happiest.
So, with these facts in the mind
offs many, there was extreme sur
prise and profound sorrow when
it became known that Mrs. Lacy
lay dead at her home as the re-
suit of gunshot wound inhict-
ed, as seemed probable, by her
own hand.
Discovery of the body was
made by Mr.. Lacy upon return-
ing home at the close of busi-
ness hours at the J. H. Harris
store, in which he has been an
employe for many years. Mr..
Lacy entered the back door ac-
companied by Chester Proebstel,
who was to have supper with the
family. The husband passed in
to the dining room and from
there saw his wife lying on the
bed in their sleeping apartments
opening from the dining room.
He approached his wife, lay his
hand upon her, and simultaneous
1y discovered an exusion of froth
from the mouth and a narrow
streak of blood passing from the
right temple across her face.
With cry of anguish Mr.. La
cy called to his friend and com
manded him to hasten for ply
sician- Within FIVE OF six min
ntes DR.. Cathey arrived. 'It il
no use-she is dead!o said tn,
heart-broken husband to the doc
tor as he entered the room. AM
so. it proved, upon a casual exam
ination by the physician.
Mrs. Lacy lay upon her back
her head turned well to the lei
and resting upon the pillows. 1
tiny hole in the-right temple an
a 2z-calibre rife lying by tn
bedside gave the first, and in FAC
only, evidence of how she cam
to her death. The bullet ha
entered the right temple and pas:
ed almost diagonallv across to th
opposite side where it was arres,
ed by the heavier bone slight
below the left temple, laceratin
the blood vessels of of the brai
in its course. The nature of <h
wound caused speedy and exter
sive discoloration of the face.
DR.. Cathey suggested that Co
oner Wilkins be summoned an
that in the meantime the corps
and attending conditions be nj
disturbed. After a survey of tt
situation Coroner Wilkins reno,
ed the remains to his undertakin
parlors and an once summoned
jury and ordered an inques
which began at 8 o'clock. II
jury was composed of VIM. Cree
G. Seely, A. E. Wilkins, ]. I
Strange z. Davis, ]. w. Crawfol
w. B. Lacy was the first wi
ness called. He stated, in al
swer to interogatives by De
Dis. Attorney Bryson, that he la
saw his wife alive when he lie
his home just after having dim
at II o'clock Tuesday; at tn
time there was nothing unusu
in her manner; she seemed chez
full, was in her usual health; 81
was in no way respondent; the
relationship had always been We
pleasant, as had that of hers'
and relatives; nothing had occu
red on their recent vacation II
to mar her usual peace of min