Arizona republican., 1910-04-08
GRIM DEATH
 FORESTALLED $. 1. Hutcheson Anticipates
 Death By Death FEW HOURS OF LIFE LEFT
Young Man, Victim of Tu- berculosis, Cheats Death By Shooting Himself in UeesaG; Member " Of Well Known N. Y. Family.

Anticipating death by but few hours. George L. Hutchcson of New York city. who has been living at sISS West Monroe street since last fall, shot himself through the head yesterday afternoon and died instant ly According to Dr. E. w. Craig. who was attending the sick man, Hutcheson had but a few hours of life left to him when he determined to end it all at once with new Colts revolver, which he kept beside his bed
 Miss Mary Hamilton, nurse who has attended the young man for the past year, was witness of the shooting.
 Hutcheson was lying on his cot on the screen porch and Miss Hamil- ton was ir the next room. H. b. Underwood of Phoenix. a friend of the dead man, had been visiting him and had just taken his leave: It was about o'clock yesterday afternoon. Miss Hamilton heard the report and rushed up to her patient and tore the revolver from his clutched fin gers She was so quick that the powder from the explosion burned her arm. She then called to Underwood, who was but few feet away. When he reached Hutcheson he found the young man dead.
 The strange feature of the case is the fact that Hutcheson had but d few hours of life left. as far as the physicians can foretell' the advent Of ..1 l.. s,, Aa s-ta ..f tuberculosis.
 On Monday last he suffered from hemmorhage that left him SD weak that since then he has been given oxygen at regular intervals. A few minutes before shooting himself Miss Hamilton had administered oxygen to him. He then told her that he was getting sleepy ''I feel the dope working he said. and she retired to the house, leaving him, as she sup posed, to sleep.
 Miss Hamilton was almost pros trated by the sad occurrence. She has attended his wants ever since he came west. a year and d half ago. to endeavor to recover his health. She took charge of him in Los Angeles. where he went first. From there he went to Upland. and when the rainy season began she brought him to Phoenix. That was on October of last year. He rented a pretty new house on West Monroe street near Twenty-first avenue.
 Miss Hamilton said that she had no idea that Hutchcson ever thought do h..I n him about the new revolver that he insisted on keeping close to his bed side at all times. She wanted to remove it, but he would not permit her to do so. Dr Craig also mo- ticed the gun on a chair beside the bed, and asked him what he kept it there for. He said that thieves had been stealing his wood, and he was waiting for them.
 Dr. Craig was notified of the sui eide by Underwood. Coroner John stone impanelled a jury and went to the house. An examination showed that Hutcheson had probably sat on the edge Of the bed. pulled the blank cts over his head and placed the end of the revolver in his mouth. The bullet came out of the top of the head and was found embedded in the ceiling. with several splashes of blood about it.
 The jury brought in d verdict of self f-destruction. The members of the jury were: J. A. Porterie. R. H. Close. M. C. Harden, J. J. Blinckhorn, C. B. Smith and J. D. Smith.
 George l.. Hutcheson comes of a wellknown New York family. He was 27 years of age. He is survived by his mother. Mrs. Henrietta R Hutcheson. of Baldwin. Long Island. and by three brothers and three sis ters. One of his brothers is now in Los Angeles