Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-20
SUICIDE SITS FOR
 HOURS UNNOTICED
JAMES T. c0NN0R SHOOTS HIMSELF IN MOUTH IN ROOM IN BONANZA SALOON THROUGH WHICH MANY PEo-
 PILE PASS BEFORE ONE OF THEM PULLS GUN OUT OF HAND AND THEN DISCOVERS THAT 5- -is.., e,ii>.e- HE IS DEAD.

At 6 o'clock in rear room of the Bonanza saloon at Lowell last even ing, James T. Conner a miner, sui cided by shooting himself. Conner evidently had planned the means Of ending his career, for he took great pains to place the 3S-cafiber Smith X Wesson, with which he committed the deed, in his mouth.
 The shot entered the roof of his mouth and came out at the back of his head. imbedding itself in the cell ing of the room.
 Notwithstanding the fact that the shooting occurred at time when the saloon was crowded, and in plain ear shot of hundreds of people, the dead body of Conner was not found until g o'clock.
 The dead man was miner, employ ed as a machine, man at the Wolverine & Arizona, but had not worked since May 10. He had been drinking con siderably since the 1dth, when he de posted $50 in the Lowell branch of of the Bank of Bisbee.
 Nothing so far has been learned of the dead mans relatives, if he had any. He came to Bisbee from Butte about two months ago and had been employed as above stated since that time.
 Conner was evidently prudent man, for yesterday he left for safe keeping in the hands of Harry Jen- nings of Jennings & Fitzsimmons, a package containing stock certificates supposed to be issued by Bonanza Cir cle companies Conner was about AS years of age.
 Steve Swedish, bartender at the Bo- manga; Charley Pharl, one of the pro prietors of the place. and several others who were about the premises heard the shot plainly, bur could not locate it.
 In the rear of the saloon is small room, in which were table and chair. This room leads to the toilet in the rear of the building. It was in this room, while seated at the table that Conner fired the shot which ended his life. Although both Swedish and Prahl looked into the room at the time of the shooting. no attention was paid a man supposed to be sleeping at the table Also after this time and Inui the time when Conner was found dead, probably three-score peo' pie passed through that very room and within few feet of his dead body, little knowing the ghastly sight that might have met their eyes had they taken the trouble to look in the diree' ton of the table.
 At g o'clock the ghastly discovery was made when Andrew J. Bess, an other bartender at the Bonanza, be, fore going on shift for the night. no ticed that a man was, as he thought asleep at the table with gun in his hand Bess called the attention Of Proprietor Prahl to the fact that 2 man with gun was asleep in the reaI room. Prahl went in, took the gun away from Conner and noticed poo of blood on the floor.
 Not until then did the full realiza ton of the fact burst uuon those pres ent that the single shot heard earlier I in the evening had been fired by Con ner, and that he had taken his own nfe Coroner Hogan was immediately notified, He at once impaneled jury, composed of F. Mckenzie, George Middleton, Obe Shimp, Peter Duly Mike King and J. M. Cory. Aftel i viewing the remains, Coroner Hogan