The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-03-20
WELL KNOWN YOUNG MEN TAKE THEIR
 OWN LIVES

UWN LIVES
 Two Cases Had No Connection With
 Each Other But Occur Three Days
 Apart and Both Used Guns With
 Result of Instant Death-Bodies
 Shipped East. \
 Two suicides in Clifton this week, the victims being well known young men, the cases occurring within three days of each other, cast pail of gloom over the community.
 Chas. Tunis, age 21, a cousin of County Surveyor H. O. TuniS at 1:30 D. m. Sunday afternoon, took his life by firing a bullet from a 30-30 Win chester into his body, the bullet enter ing at the base of the heart. Death was instantaneous.
 On Wednesday evening A. A. Coleman, aged 35, committed suicide at his rooming house near s. & s. Bottling Works, by shooting himself through the right side of the head with a six shooter.
 Although occurring in close proXim- ity to each other the two suicide cases had no connection, although it is probable that the rash act of Tunis on Sunday may have influenced the de scision of Coleman to do likewise.
 Suicide of Tunis.
 Laboring under the horrifying thought that he was loosing his mind and declaring previously q would rather kill myself than go insane" -Chas. w. Tunis of Norfork, Va., a young man just passed the age of twenty-one, took his life in a room at the Armory apartment house in Hills Addition Sunday afternoon, last at 1:30 p. m.
 Death was instantaneous caused by rife fired from 30-30 calibre Win chester The young man stood in the center of the room occupied by H. O. Tunis and leaning over the muzzle of rife, pulled the trigger and fell over on his left side with mor- tai wound. Young Tunis had intend ed to leave the following morning for his old home in Maryland and his body was discovered by a party of young men who called to say good bye. A physician was hastily sum- moned but life was extinct when he arrived.
 Chas. Tunis came to Clifton last July. He was young man of eX- emplary habits and was for a time employed by the A. c. company at Metcalf, in a clerical capacity. Later he was assistant to County Treasurer John M. Webster and at the time of his rash act had been employed as a assistant in the office of the County Surveyor. Just prior to his coming to Clifton MT. Tunis suffered a severe attack of tonsilitis and as a result an abscess had formed in the inner tube of the ear and it is believed that this ;abScess entered the brain. He was possessed of the hallucination that I-1 I,s, . IL deaf in one ear and during the last month was depressed and melancholy. Instead of seeking congenial compan. ions, as heretofore, he preferred to be by himself and was given to fits of breeding, often making the remark that he would rather take his own life than lose his reason. All this time he went ahead steadily with his work which he performed with his usual ability. As a result of an eX- animation by local physician it was advised that Tunis seek a change of climate and the day previous to talk ing his life had drawn his money from the bank, packed his trunk, and made all preparations to leave Cliff ton on Monday morning.
 He arose Sunday morning as usual and went to breakfast at his board ing house. While there he made IHO ItudIh IO Iu0 Iduy CudL L1o brain seemed on fire" He returned to the Armory and busted himself with his packing and continued his prepar- ation for leaving the next morning. w. A. Sellars, manual training teach CT in the high school, was a caller to bid his friends goodbye. About one o'clock MT. Sellars and the deceased visited the room of H. O. Tunis in the same building. Here the young man complained of not having been able to sleep the night previous and Fthat the top of his brain felt numb.' His cousin prevailed upon him to lie down on the bed in his room and try to sleep. He compiled with the re- quest and after pulling down the cur tains and darkening the room MT. H. O. Tunis and Sellars departed. This was at one o'clock. At 1:30 D. m. quartette of young men friends call ed to bid the young man goodbye and discovered his dead body on the floor of his cousins room. Evidently a few minutes after the departure of Tunis and Sellars the young man set about his preparations for taking his life. A rife hung in a scabbard on the wall of the room. He eXamin- ed this and found it unloaded, but search of the drawers of a bureau dis closed two or three cartridges. He inserted one in the barrel of the rifle and stopping over the muzzle pulled the trigger with his right hand. The bullet entered at the base of the heart passed through the body, and lodged