Bisbee daily review., 1912-12-25
DEAD;
 SUICIDE Is VERDICT
 OF CORONER'S JURY
Deed Committed with .32 Caliber Gun; Victim Had Long Been
 DeSpondent
HAD MADE THREAT
 OF KILLING SELF

That ha came to his death through shooting himself Tn the head was the verdict arrived at yeste.lay by the coroner's jury in the deatE oi Ralph Terrebonne. Eno was found yesterday morning at h.s home witn 8 bullet wound in his right temple The wound was inflicted with a .32 Cllibre gun and death was almost tn- stantaneous.
 The deceased was fOTty-seyan years ul age. He was born in New orleans on July I. 1865. About twenty-five years ago he came to this city and has lived here ever since. He resid- ed in the School Hill district wlth his wife and family For the last seventeen years he has been a hoist ing engineer at the Czar shalt of the Copper Queen mine.
 Testimony at the inquest developed the fact that the deceased had been Respondent and nervous for some time and that, on number of occa- 'ons. he had threatened his own life in the presence of his family. Fof this reason every precaution had been taken to keep firearms out of the house. The gun with which the fatal wound was inflicted had been in the house for some time. but care had been taken to hide the cartridges that belonged to it and it is not known how they were procured by the dead man.
 The shooting occurred at about S:30 o'clock yesterday morning. The Phy- sician who attended the case stated ka R saH uisfhaa o'clock. He found the body Of Terrebonne in bed, he testified, and that. upon examination found that the bullet had entered the right tem- ple and had lodged in the brain The next witness called was son Of the deceased. Val TeFTebonne. The witness stated that he was not in the house at the time the shot was fired, but added that his father had appear ed Respondent and had, in his pres ence. sad that he would 'enn !t all. Fife Terrebone. a daughter, who was in the house at the time that the shot was fired, was the next witness. She said thats she heard the shot and that she and her mother ran into the room. They found the deceased with his head hanging over the Abed and with a bullet wound in the right tenn ple. A gun was found on the floor near the bed. The police were i'm mediately notified The gun which 1 was found near the bed was exhibit ed in the court room and was iden- | tified by the girl
 Officer Rowlins who, with City | Marshal Watkins and City Sealer 1 Quick. were the first to arrive on the i scene said that just as he entered he room TerrebOnne drew one Ter 1 breath, but that he must have died 1 almost immediately afterwards. Ihe ! last witness to be called was DaI ] Terrebonne, another son Of the de l ceased His testimony was along the same lines as the witnesses pre- viously called. He, like his Brother | Val, stated that he had often heara his father threaten to kill himseh
 The deceased was well known ner5 and the shooting came as a gfed shock to his friends. He had recent Inv returned from trip to New UT leans for a change and for the 6ene ! fit of his health, but friends stated that the trip did not seem to nave done him much good and hat he ha. aupesred Respondent for some tune | Arrangements for the funeral haN'
 moi vet been made. but it is believed ithat il will be held on Thursday. 7 nc
 body was taken in charge by lh'
 Palace Undertaking company