Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-23
CAUSE OF DEATH
 WAS ALCOHOLISM
Verdict of Coroner'S Jury in the Case of William
 Beatty

Alcoholism was the cause of the sudden death Of William Beattie, the elderly pioneer who died on Main street Wednesday night. according to the verdict of the coroner's jury that held an inquest over ehe body in Judge Highs courtroom yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
 No autopsy was performed on the body. but from frequent symptoms physicians testified that alcoholism was the cause of his death He was a native Of Ireland, and had been in Arizona for twenty years or more.
 The funeral was held at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon from the parlors Of the 0. K. undertaking establish. ment. conducted by Rev. John Fry, of the Presbyterian church of the Covenant, and inteTment was in Evergreen cemetery.
 "Cldyer the frey at s o'clock. That is the suggestion of the Society of the Friends Of Lovers, adopted since reading the story3of the ob- stacles in the path Of Bisbee young ! marrisgeables. as told ia yesterday mornings Review. Nearly all mar ridges occur before the present cur few hour, 9 o'clock. and the young bandits can not be held to account under the law as it now stands. But if the curfeW hour were set back 10 eight o'clock or earlier. il could be invoked to save young mar ried couples from humiliation land ! hold-up. Bisbee is more or less a world to itself. and there is no req ! son why eight o'clock should not ! be adopted as the official wedding hour, and if tke CuTfew hour were : also set at eight o'clock, the police department would be able to cope with the evil Of the Begging Hand. ! A gentleman occupying c judicial ! position yesterday expressed himself as being in favor of setting the ju- dicial hour at eight o'clock This l officer knows of the difficulties that tcset the young Newlyweds, by req son of having oficiated at hundreds of weddings, and in many instances be was begged not to say anything about the marriage, for fear of the charivari
 Within the last two weeks a groom had to give up g. to the young bri gands of the charivari. An hour be fore the wedding occurred, the house where the wedding was to take place was surrounded by the juvenile high
 waymen, armed with anything thai was composed largely or tin, and they kept up such a racket that the groom
 finally had to give them $3-the priee of Q nice rocking ehair-to stol
 their racket
 But that was not the end of thS
 charivari The young bandits re
 tired to their haunts, and informed
 ether young highwaymen Of then
 luct. and the second band took ul the attack. After the wedding guesu , lad been driven all but insane, ta' ! groom paid $2 more in tribute ti the demands Of the gang.
 Nor was that the end of the ch1ri gsri. The gang kept up the racke , long after the groom and his brid' I hsd been driven iu desperation iron Z Inc house. The groom had Deel robbed of 8, and now they were go E ing after the wedding guests.
 The judicial officer quoted did no [ sneak in jest when he declared for al 4 earlier curfew hour hour nor Is m < ChaTivari as now BEacIStu, yOn
 at the expense of the groom It T
 a erying evil. and one that should Q !! corrected. The extent of the shame less charivari was not appreciated Q J he average citizen until the fact o he anti-pubIicity movement pI2ctice' ! nv young married people was brousn l 10 their attention
 + is asserted that there are banh
 of younz boys in the city who hay
 their scouts tp keep the band ii
 formed as 10 when and to whom nal
 riaee licenses have been issued ! ! Tombstone, and that they set a Watc 9ver the houses Of these people unt , they learn the date of the weddini \ Al first the charivsri seems to nav
 fed on the vanity of the groom gus 1 as the tipping evil thriyes on th I vanity of the tourist, but t has grow | to such proportions in bisDee tha 1 the NewlySeds nave rosorted 10 ma 4 riage in secrecy. with witnesses an { justices of the peace pledged to s'
 orecy.
 | The anti-pubMcity movement Is n'