Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-07-03
|0lO PIONEER DEAD
BY HIS own
HAND
PHI. Trotter Despondent
Fires Bullet Into
His Heart
(Prom Saturdays Daily.)

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doubt. by n severe attack Of the jaun.
dice, from which he had been suffer.
ing for the past two months, T. II.
Trottcr. yesterday afternoon, at 3:l5
o'clock, ended his life with q 3s.cali.
Der liver johnson pistol, by shooting
himself in tho neart. The bullet en-.
tered the left breast, below the nip.
pie, passed through the body piercing
the heart In it's course, and was found
in the bcdclothes beneath the body.
About two months ago Trottcr was
taken to the hospital, very III. His casc
developed later into n virulent attack
OF jaundicc. lie remained in the hos.
pital until about two weeks ago, when
ne returned to his room in the rear OF
No. 800 South Granite street, where
he ended his life yesterday.
He gradually grew worse, and about
week ago sent for George G.. Ruffner,
after telling those about him that he
would soon end his life. lie told RUIZ.
ner TO take charge Of his body in case
of his death, and also 10 notify his sis.
ter, a resident Of Iowa, who would
pay his funeral expenses.
a. A. Johns and II. Adams, friends
Of many years standing, called on him
many times daily during the past
week, and both testified AT the cor.
oner's inquest that he had repeatedly
threatened to end his life in case his
health showed no Improvement.
Yesterday, about O'Clock, Mr..
Johns called at the place, and found
Trotter In Respondent mood. Johns
asked him what he desired for supper
and Trotter stated that 40 did not
think that he would need any. Mr..
Adams thcn called and Johns left the
room TO get fresh supply Of water at
a nearby hydrant.
When Johns left the room Adams no.
ticcd that Trotter was still In . de.
spondeut mood. lie also saw q small
pistol resting on tho bed on which
Trotter lay. lie stepped outside 70 talk
with Johns over Trotter's condition,
and while both were standing near the
hydrant they heard u shot. They i'm.
mediately ran TO the room and found
Trottcr reclining on the bed, with .
bullet hole In the left breast. Johns
hurried to nearby telephone and call.
ed Dr.. X. N. Looney, who arrived about
twenty minutes later. after life wss
extinct. Trotter lived about Eve
minutes after firing the fatal shot,
but never uttered . word.
Tho remains we're taken in charge by
the RuRuer undertaking establishment
after the coroncr's jury viewed the
body. A verdict that deceased came TO
his death from a gunshot wound in.
nicted by himself, was rendered.
Deceased was aged about 90 years
and a native Of Iowa. lie was unmar.
ried,rand the only known surviving rel
aHve IL a sister, in Iowa. He came to
this city in 1867, and has resided here
ever since. He was a carpenter by oc.
cupstion.
Tn 1885 no received q pistol wound
in a saloon row in this city, from which
he never fully recovered. The wound
was pronounced by his attending ply.
sicians to be almost similar to the one
which ended President Garfcld's life.
Two other men lost their lives in the
saloon fight where he was injured, but
deceased was in no way connected or
responsible for IL and was making an
effort to leave the place when shot.
He was man Of tender sympathies,
and like almost all Of the early pio-
necrs, generous almost 70 fault. lie
leaves no estate and only $i.45 was
found on his person.
Funeral arrangements have not vet
been completed.