| Show WOULD RATHER BE DEAD BEAD THAN PAUPER william french blew brains out with shot gun near jensen jensco monday night last declaring that he would rather be lead dead than be a pauper william french blew tits hla beairs out with a shot gun in his cabin a mile this side akle of jensen they found the corpse in a pool of blood tuesday morning monday night lute stewart and a nd pete case were with blin bilm at hla his howe home and ho be Irs insisted isted that they go us as he would be ell tight right lie ile made two attempts before the fatal work was done the first load of shot grazed his temple and lodged in the cel belling ling ile he evidently sat there in study for awhile and then walked around the room as aa there was blood near the chair and a trail along the floor his fingers had bad rubbed the wound mound in the temple as aa the second shell was we bloody the next effort was carefully carried out the muzzle of 0 the gun was placed between the eyes and the shot tore half the head bead away county attorney wallace calder and deputy sheriff atwood drove to the scene of the tragedy tuesday morning where the county attorney conducted the inquest the jury was w composed of A S richardson W P F billings and H J Cha chatwill twili death from a gunshot wound flirted was waa the verdict deceased had been III for a year or more and arrangements arrange menta had been made to bring him to vernal on tuesday and place him in the hospital as aa a coun tir chaise when he be heard beard of it he made akdo the remark that he would rather be dead than a pauper mr french was wa born bora la in sixty seven years yearn ago soon after the ibe civil war broke out he enlisted tn in a company of the ninety third illinois regiment and served until the close of the war recently lie secured a pension about three years cars ago he came here from COO colorado the th only known relative is 1 cora elliott El llott of wisconsin |
