| Show TO A HIGHER COURT JAMES GAIUlIGAir CARRIES HIS CASE BEYOND THE CLOUDS Disgusted With Life He Retires to His Mothers Ranch and IHovrs Out ibis Bruins Causes For the Deed Lie In His Punt Conduct Details of the Suicide James Carrigan arrested for an assault made upon his mother Mrs Ann Elmer one week ago yesterday last night carried car-ried his case to a higher court for adjudication ad-judication I At half past nine last night Carrigans son a boy who works on the ranch owned by Mrs Elmer where CarrIgan was ap I prehended came rushing into the Lay fayette floral establishment and asked to use the telephone Permission being granted he Informed the > police station that Carrigan had returned to the ranch about 730 and thirty minutes later had blown his brains out with d Sharps 4570 rifle Coroner Offenbach was at onc notified and dispatched his assistant for the body Carrigan became engaged in t quarrel with his mother one week ago last night over some money matters the result of which was that am severe beating was given the old lady He left town for the ranch and after being there for two or three days was apprehended by the police His bonds were fixed at 0 and for fortyeight hours he languished In the city jail Yesterday he was arraigned before Justice Smith and had the amount re duced to 250 1 W fuller T > V Rose and C T Nelson qualified and he was released re-leased Ho was seen down town about 5 oclock last night and is supposed to have left for the place where He bade farewell to earth an hour later The spot selected by the dead man was eminently fitted for the ending of a career checkered and stormbeaten Obscurely Ob-scurely located among the smaller foothills foot-hills west of Emigration canyon down inn in-n hollow where the sunshine of day I vainly endeavors to beautify the sombre surroundings and where nights Inky inky blackness weaves the gloomiest of funeral pals where the sweet notes of the scng birds never burden the air with melody nor the flowers of spring time shed their fragrance In that gruesome place far from home wife and children the ties which bind the souls of men to life as with chains of gold this misguided mis-guided being bade adieu to the known and through the gathering shadows passed to the unknown land from whence no traveler returns I I is but dropping the mantle of charity I over the dead man to say that it is believed be-lieved by his friends that he was insane in-sane although his son contends that it was domestic trouble Carrigan was 47 years of age and leaves a wife and four children two married mar-ried children by his first wire and the boy mentioned the children by the second wife being very young and who are by his rash act left at the mercy of the I world he being practically a poor man I Unfortunate business ventures have rendered ren-dered him comparatively indigent His mother who is reported as being quite wealthy may assist them however At one time he and his brother Henry engaged in business in the livery stable on MaIn street just above the Walker house but made a failure Later he tried running the Senate saloon but could pot make a success of it He is the second one of the family to suicide a brother a newspaper man having killed himself on the coast some years ago by taking laudanum According to the boys statement Car rigan came home at 7 oclock moody and despondent having heard that his mothers condition was serious The son fearing results had hidden the revolver resuls Carrigan took down the rifle and said it needed cleaning and that he would do it As the cow had not come home he sent the boy after it The lad was not absent over three minutes and when he was just entering the house the shot was fired The suicide shot himself on the right side of the head the ball entering the nose and passing to the right ot the left eye The bullet tore OIL the back of the head and the concussion was so great that both jaws were shattered He never knew what struck him The suicides method was a novel one Ho removed his shoe and stocking from his left foot cocked the weapon sat down in a chair and placing the muzzle against his face fred the weapon with his great toe An inquest will be held tomorrow wi of the Carrigans wife was not notified event last night his son preferring t9 wait until today before breaking the news |
