Arizona republican., 1906-02-09
A. $. ARTHUR'S
 SUDDEN END
Found Dead Alone at HiS
 Home
His Last Gaze Fixed Upon the Pho tOgraph of His Wife, Recently Called Away.

A. s. Arthur was found dead yester- ] day afternoon at g o'clock at his home
 at Ninth avenue and Jackson streets ] by John T. Dunlap with whom he had made an appointment at thac hour MT. | Arthur lay on his bed clad only in his shirt and trousers and his last gaze ! seemed to nave been fixed upon a pho tograph of his wife on a table at the head of the bed.
 l He had been in i'll health for some time and had been under the treatment ! of Dr. Swetnam, but his condition 1 had shown improvement. Mrs. Arthur : left last Monday night for Oswego, i Kansas called by the serious illness of i her father. and immediately after her departure MT. Arthur seemed very
 much depressed. On Wednesday he re
 ceived letter from her which greatly
 cheered him. He had another letter ] yesterday morning, and when he was 1 last seen alive he was in a happy
 mood.
 1 Shortly before noon he Jeff the home
 of his mother on North Firs5 avenue, and returned home Arriving there he telephoned Mir. Dunlap. asking him if i he could call about three o'clock Mr. Dunlap replied that he could call at once but Mir. Arthur said that there . Was liO Iltt1l ol hurry ana that LlEee , o'clock would do
 When MT. Dunlap arrived at the
 house and saw him lying on the bed.
 he knew that he was a dead man. An
 examination showed that he was al-
 ready cold. Thinking that he might be
 mistaken MT. Dunlap sent a boy after
 Dr. Stroud and called in a couple of
 neighboring women. One of them said
 that sine thought she could detect a
 slight pulse but the doctor said that
 death must have taken piaca at leaat an hour before.
 There was lying on the table a note addressed to Mir. Dunlap in which Mir Arthur said: "I am very. very sick" There was another note as follows. in-' dicating that the writer had a premo- hilton of deatl: AS I am very sick l make this request that nothing about the dresser or any trunks or private matters be touched until my wife comes"
 This note and the incident of the telephone at first led to a suspicion that MT. Arthur had ended his own life. But there were no marks of vio- lence on the body and no indications of poisoning. There was no vessel nor There were bottles of medicine but all Of them were accounted for.
 Justice Burnett held an inquest on the body and the jury returned a yer dict stating that death had resulted from natural causes. The iu~y did not believe that an autopsy would be nec- essary
 The body was taken. to the under taking rooms of Easterling and Whit l ney and a telegram was sent to his ! wife. No arrangements will be made ! for the funeral until sae is heard from !
 Mr. Arthur was forty-one years of i age. He was native of Louisiana. | but the greater part of his early life | was spent at St Joseph Mo, where for | a long time he was employed in con | fidential and responsible positions by ! the wealthy Burncs family He came ! to Phoenix about fifteen years ago. For l several years he had taken an active . part in the democratic politics of the . city and county. For two years he ! held the office of chief clerk in the office of the county recorder. After [ that he was engaged in the life insur- ance business, in the Incorporating | business and in mining.
 He was married about six years ago. His wife and four year-oId little girl i survive him.