Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-30
FORMER B6bEE MAN COMMITS
 SUICIDE
ie Takes Large Quantity of Arsenic and Dies Shortly Afterward Despite Attempts Made to Save His Life.

At an early hour today Cnauncey El- dridss Butler. a well known metainr- gist and mining engineer of this city. took a large quantity of arsenic at his home, 32s2 Lowell street, and died soon afterwards despite the attempts of physicians to save him. Butler liv- ed in Bisbee in 1889 and was well known here.
 In explanation of butlers act. his brother-in-law, Jesse Bell. brother of the dead mans widow. made the fol- lowing statement today:
 Tn justice to an honorable man, man who, rather than tell the true story about his trouble with his wife. who Is my sister, preferred that his friends should believe him to be the brute which she painted him. want the public to know that my brother-in- law, Chauncey Eldridge Butler. who committed suicide this morning, killed himself because of the manner in which he was treated by my sister. his wife"
 Butler was 35 years of age and had been married about six years. About two weeks ago sne left him and went to Los Angeles. where her mother. Mrs. Laura c. Cramer. nov lives. About two months ago she instituted proceedings for divorce against him and the suit was called off only after Artemesia, the oldest of the three chil- dren had gone first to the father and then to the mother in the court room and begged them not to part.
 Mrs. Butler charged her husband with cruelty and neglect Butler grant ed that the mining man had made life for the woman who married him al most unbearable. Mrs. Buffers own brother, who has been staying at the home of Butler since the sister went away, is exceedingly bitter in his de nunciations of the way in which she
 has treated Butler and now says that he wishes all of the facts to be made public.
 According to Mir Bell. who wept as he told the story, Butler had received two letters from his sister since she went away Both of the letters were insulting and bitter. The second one was received yeserday. Butler has been trying to get his wife to return to him in Denver and had written to her several times. begging her to come back to him.
 The letter which Butler received yesterday was a reply to the last he sent to Los Angeles. In it Mrs. But Ter told him that she would never go back to him and that If he should go to Los Angeles after her he would have to chain her up and handcuff her in order to get her to go with him.
 Bell says that the trouble between his sister and her husband was due to infatuation for a motorman and that he believes she is with him now. Be fore she met the man. he says. she spent much of her time running with other men and only laughed at the objections which Butler made.
 Bell says he has known his sis ter to be out from early in the morn ing until late in the evening when 1t was raining hard and he thinks that she was wun some man. The neigh bors are even stronger in IleL 4e- nunciation of the wife of the dead man and even go so far as to say he was murdered.
 Bell further stated:
 When my sister went away two weeks ago. Butler asked me 70 come and stay with him. lie intended go- ing to Go.dfield befoie long and had made every preparation for the trip He had been engaged as consulting engineer by big mining company. l. knew that he was discouraged ana out of sorts on account of the treat ment he had received at the hands of my sister but I had no idea he in- tended committing suicide at this time. He told me he was going to do so some day, but 1t was going to be in such a manner that no one would know he had taken his own life and he was going to write and tell her.
 Butler was agraduate of the mining school of Columbia college and also of the mining school at Phonenix, Arizona. He married Miss Bell at Bisbee, Ariz- Last night before he retired he wrote two letters.l one of which was addressed to Mrs. Butler.
 Mrs. Butler was notified yesterday by her brother in Denver of the death of her husband, but no intimation of suicide was contained in the telegram. Mrs. Butler had been staying with her mother, Mrs. Cramer. at s53 Wall street. They left for Denver last night over the Southern Pacific Sun set route.
 Friends in the house where Mrs. Butler had been staying say she had no knowledge of the tragic circum- stances surrounding her husbands death and the charges made against his sister by Mir. Bell.
 Mrs. Butler expected her husband to come out shortly to join her." said the landIady of the house last night She had nothing to do with other men as far as we knew and she seem ed to be looking forward with pleas ure ts the coming of her husband. When she received the news of her husbands death she and her mother