Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-16
FIRES BULLET THROUGH HEAD IN BED AT HIS HOME YES-
 TEROAY MORNING
HAD BECOME DEsPoNDENT ON ACCOUNT OF CHECKS ISSUED WITHOUT MONEY IN BANK TO HoNoR COLLECTION.

Leslie Tillman, one of the most pop ular young men about town, shot him self through the head, at the residence of his parents, 459 South High street, at 3:30 clock yesterday morning, dy- ing instantly.
 Carl Til,man, the dead man 's brother, | testify;ng before the coroner and jury, gave it as his opinion that Leslie was made desperate by the fact that he had | given out checks without having any money in bank.
 Dr. Wales was the first witness called at the inquest and testified that death, practically instantaneous, had been caused by pistol shot wound through the head, the bullet entering about two and one-half inches above the right ear and making it's exit on the left side of tho head, just behind the ear The doctor added that the wound had been inflicted with large calibre pistol, such as he had seen policemen use. Carl Tillman, Leslie's brother, was then called. Controlling his emotions bravely, he related in a quiet voice that Leslie Tillman was native of Florence, aged 24 years. His testimony, in sub stance, was as follows:
 | "My brother came home at about 2 o clock Sunday afternoon; he had been out all night. He went to the dance in the evening, and saw him at a sa loon when I came down to the train Sunday morning. He was playing cards I did not disturb him. The next time l saw him was when I went to bed Ut about S:30 clock Sunday night; he seemed to be sleeping. | "The three of us slept in the same room, upstairs. My other brother and I slept in one bed, and Leslie slept in the other.
 "At 3:30 clock, 1 heard sound like shot or the slamming of door, and sat up in bed. I also heard some thing that might have been the drop ping of shell--we afterwards found that this was the bullet
 "I hurried to Leslie $ bed and threw back the cover-I hardly know whether the blanket was over his head or not. saw the blood and the gun, and | knew that he had killed himself. The gun was lying in front of him, under his two hands, and he was lying on his left side.
 "When sat up in bed, trying to make sure where the sound had come from, heard Leslie breathing hard He gave two or three big gasps, and that was what attracted me to his bed. | Yes, that is the pistol he used, continued the witness as he was shown a forty-fve calibre Colt t's revolver. "It is my father's, The pistol was kept in our room; it used to be hidden under a mattrass, but three or four days ago, when felt it against my shoulder as l 1 lay in bed, l took it from there and hung it up in hostler against the wall Leslie could have reached it with out getting out of bed.
 "Leslie left no note or letter to any body. believe that he killed himself because he worried about some checks he had given out when he had no money in bank. He had been drinking and gambling good deal of late. He got So far into debt that he could not see his way out. That happened to him before and the matter was straight ened out for him, but this time he seems to have got frightened. l know he was very melancholy all day Sun day"
 City Marshal Anderson testified that Carl Tillman had called him littlc 1 before 5 o'clock yesterday morning and that, accompanied by Coroner Hinson Thomas, he had gone to the Tillman | home, where the body lay.
 When the coroner and the marshal ar rived at the house, Mrs. Tillman was | kneeling beside her dead son, weeping passionately as she stroked his fore. head and walled piteously that he had | always been good boy to his mother. She seemed to feel badly for having walked away from Leslie when he came home Sunday afternoon and told her that he had been "out all night with the boys and sobbed out that this had seemed to make him very sad.
 The coroner's jury. composed of w. s. Dayton, w. s. Peterson, P s. Smith, George F.. Shute, John Meadows and Paul J. Braud, without necessity for any delberation, returned verdict to the effect that Leslie Tillman came to his death from gunshot wound through the head, self.inilieted with suicidal in. tent.
 The body. which has been prenarpd for interment by F, l.. Jones, will be buried at ? o'clock Wednesday after noon, after services conducted by Rev Bennett at St. John s Episcopal church.