Arizona republican., 1909-07-20
DESPONDENCY LEADS
 ID SUICIDES GRAVE
c. M. Lawrence Found Dead In His Room Last Evening.

King Carbolic. greatest of all sui cidal agents, claimed his second vic tim within a month when c. NJ. Law renee. proprietor of the shooting gal lery located at 17 South First avenue, was found alone and dead in his room in the Phoenix hotel yesterday even ing about supper time.
 Lawrence's room was shrouded in semi darkness. and after calling to him several times the door of his room was forced open and his lifeless body found upon the bed, with face towards the wall. The discoverer at first thought his death a natural one. and such a report was spread broadcast. until upon the arrival of the coroner it was suspected to be a case of sui eide by the common route. carboliCs
 The room was in perfect order, nothing showing a sudden insane i'm pulse. Everything pointed te a pro- meditated. planned out act. an act thought over and and over again. No actual clew to the inspiring cause of his act was discovered last night, though despondency due to i'll health is believed to have been the prompting fact
 For four years since the arrival of MT Lawrence in Phoenix from Vir- ginia he has been troubled with com plicated ailments. claimed to have had a seat in the stomach and kidneys. these ailments becoming intensified of late. On several occasions recently Lawrence has complained, saying that he would be found dead some day, but being said in half joking man ner, his friends thought little of it He was of a peculiar disposition. hard to understand. an enigma in conver- sation as to whether he was in earn est or sarcastic; a man of few words. tight mouthed regarding his own bus mess, and non complaining. Recently he had trouble with one of his eyes. which gave him intense pain, and it Is said that he had been advised to have the optic removed.
 It is quite possible that with the combination of acute and frequent in ternal pains from which he could hardly find relief, together with a fear that perhaps he might lose an eye, Lawrence became Respondent and sought the relief which no doubt had been self suggested many times dur ing similar attacks.
 The amount of the eating, burning acid that the afflicted man swallowed was enormous and but slightly diluted. His horrible sufferings were plainly shown by the tensely drawn limbs and tightly clinched fists. His mouth and throat were fearfully eaten by the acid and even the mustache was burned. The expression of the face was awful.
 At the autopsy held last evening the kidneys and liver were found to be in good condition. as was also the appendix. However. at the neck of the stomach a slight cancerous growth had started. which no doubt caused the chronic internal pain. The pancreas also showed inflammation and a com ing growth. His stomach when ex- amined was burned black and white at the entrance. Otherwise the body was in an exceptionally healthy con dition.
 MT Lawrence came to Phoenix from a small hamlet in southern Virginia over four years ago. alone. He was of good habits, a friend of everyone. whether in the high walks of life or in the low. and his unselfish. west ern personality won many warm and close friends He owned considerable property both in the city and with out, and will leave his mother. who was wired back in Virginia last even ming a neat little fortune.
 The verdict of the corOner's jury will be given this morning. and will no doubt be suicide by means of car holic acid