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Show ACROSS THE LIME, A Pistol Bullet Sends the Spirit of J. G. Everman to the Mysterious Beyond. COULD NOT BEAR TROUBLE. He Leaves a Letter in Which He Gives His Reasons and Bids His Friends a Last Farewell. Found at Daybreak Where He Had So Rashly Ended the Life His Maker Gave Him. THE INQUEST IN PROGRESS Among .Strangers He Dies With No One to Mourn A Woman Said to Be at the Bottom of It. Cold in death, his sightless eyes turned upward toward the. morning sun, his face drawn and distorted in the death agony, while from a ghastly wound in his head oozed the life blood lay, J. (i. Everman, as a laborer on a grading job, on his way to work, passed Thirteenth East aud Eleventh South at t:4" this morning. A 38-semi-hamuicrless lay beside him with one chamber discharged. It was a case of suicide. A letter found on the person of the dead man told the story. The letter is as follows: June 24. 18S2. Well, boys, when you find mo this morning you will not be surprised, I lope for trouble lays so heavy or. my mind that death is a great relief. So good bye to one and all. J. G. EVERMAN, Constable Farmer' Ward. Everman has for some time been employed as foreman for Frank Heath in a grading job in the vicinity of the penitentiary. What the trouble he speaks of was Is unknown, but it must have been of a very grave character. He has been given to drinking nretty heavily in days gone by but for the past six or seven months has not touched a drop. About a year ago he took an overdose of morphine, from the effects of which he came near dying, dy-ing, the prompt action of the physician saving him. He is about 35 years of age and unmarried. The only relatives he has are somewhere in Missouri. Everman served live years in the regular army and was discharged at Fort Douglas as a gunner with excellent recommendations. recommenda-tions. The shooting took place at about 5 o'clock as near as can be ascertained. At that hour a family iu the vicinity claim to have heard a shot. He was in good spirits all day yesterday and retired in a very pleasant frame of mind, so his companions say. The cause of his action is unknown to them with the exception ex-ception of one man, who asserts that he is certain that as usual there is a woman in the case. He was corresponding with a lady somewhere some-where in Western Kansas for a long time and about a month ago was heard to say that "Women were the oddest animals on earth."' That he had been keeping company with one and writing to her expecting to marry her and that she had written him that she had found a fellow that she liked better. Deceased was apparently 35 years of age, of slight build, dark brown hair and mustache. mus-tache. The body was brought to Skewes' undertaking under-taking rooms, where the inquest is being held as The Times goes to press. |