The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-18
RANDY DEATH. WAS SUICIDE.
 JURY STATES.
Rose LaRue Tells ofFriend- ship with Owner of
 Music Boxes

A COTOleI Jury lnlS InOriliflB found that John Randy local juke box operator, died about midnight Tuesday as the result of suicide by self-inflicted bullet wound in the forehead" and advanced possibly despondency" as a motive for the death.
 The verdict was quickly reached after more than an hour of testi- mony before U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray regarding the circum- stances surrounding Bandy's death.
 Star witness was Rose LaRue. in whose house at 835 West Eighth Street the shooting occurred. With little sign of emotion, Miss LaRue, estranged girl-friend of Randy, told of his attempt to break into her house, his crashing through front window and his pursuit of her, as she ran to the house of a neighbor, Anna Zuboff.
 Too Many Shots
 Conflicting testimony appeared as Miss LaRue declared Randy had fired three times at her with his 32 calibre revolver as she stood in the doorway of the zuboff house, and affirmed that she had later heard three muffled shots from within her own home. The gun, exhibited at the inquest, was seen to hold only five cartridges.
 Miss LaRue declared she had known Randy since year ago last June. She said she had helped him on a number of occasions to service the eight music boxes in local cafes and taverns, which she said in good times brought him in about $100 week.
 The LaRue-B Randy affair first broke up October 2l, when an argu- ment in Bandy's room ended in a scuffle in which Miss LaRue re- ceived a broken jaw, she said. The following day she let for Petersburg, where she said she worked as waitress for week before discover ing the jaw was fractured. She spent a week then in a Petersburg hospital and then Randy went to the Mitkof Island city and brought 1 her back to Juneau. Since then, the couple has been seen together off and on, it was brought out. Miss LaRue said she had threatened to bring suit against him for the jaw injury but had later taken it back" She added, however, that on Monday of this week she talked with lawyer about the court action. She said she had not seen Randy for week prior to the shooting.
 Too Much Drinking
 Miss LaRue said she and the juke l box king had broken up over his drinking. She said she tried to keep up with him and couldn't" and that when she quit he wouldn't. She declared that he had not been send ing much money to Columbus, Mon tana, for support of his wife and daughter, but had been spending most of his income drinking. Asked if Randy had ever taken dope, Miss LaRue said he had taken sodium amitol, but not for some time now.
 Asked by Lynn Gemmil, Assistant U. s. Attorney, what she believed Bandy's motive could have been for suicide, she said the bills he owed, the fact that she had left him, that he had been drinking heavily and that his wife was contemplating starting a divorce action might have combined to bring him to taking his own life.
 Wife Wanted Him Back
 Testimony was brought out, how ever, showing that Randy had been offered $1,600 for his juke box busi- ness the day before he shot him. self. Commissioner Gray also dis played packet of letters he said came to Randy from his wife, ask ing him to come back to her.
 Other witnesses at the inquest in- cluded Ken Junge. Police Chief, Mrs. Zuboff, Walter Hellan. Deputy U. s. Marshal, and Dr. William Blanton
 pr. Blanton, called to the scene of the suicide about a. m. Wednes- day, said the fatal bullet hole was about an inch and half above the right ear and that there was no other hole in the body. He said the skin was burned in black ring around the bullet hole, indicating that the shot had been fired with