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Show ROY COMMITS SUICIDE Zeth Rowe Tankersly, a boy between be-tween 1$ and 19 years of age, committed com-mitted suicide by shooting himself, June 13, at the Last Chance ranch, at Hidden Canyon, near the Colorado river, about a hundred miles south of this city. Despondency caused by poor health was the cause. Henry Pickett, the undertaker, went out from here, brought the remains in and embalmed them for shipment to his home at El Paso, Texas, to which place shipment was made Monday. An inquest was held here Monday, Jim D. Hudson and Ray Tankersley (a brother of deceased) swearing to the following particulars before County Attorney John T. Woodbury, Sr.: We, Jim D. Hudson and Ray Tankersley, Tank-ersley, are operaters of a ranch in Mohave county, Ariz. We are half brothers. On the morning of June 13 we left the ranch early to look after our saddle horses and to locate a tank site. We returned one or one-thirty o'clock that afternoon. When we arrived at the ranch, Henry Carnes, (a neighbor and a very close friend of ours) was there. He met us between the house and the corral and said, "Boys, you have a dead boy here. I came up here about 11:30 this morning and went into the house. Roy was lying on the bed with a rifle muzzle to his ear; the gun was cocked and his finger on the trigger. Roy said, 'Mr. Carnes, I ani going to end it all, I am no good, no chance to get well; Dad spent $8000 on me last year and I am afraid that I will break the boys.' " Carnes said that he tried to talk the boy out of it. He knew that if he tried to jump and get the gun the boy would sure shoot himself. him-self. After talking with Roy, Carnes said he thought he might get the boy to folloiw him out of the house and then get the gun, so he went to the spring for a bucket of water. When he returned and stepped into the kitchen Roy shot himself. Henry Carnes then jumped to the door and as he did so he saw Roy's head fall back upon the bed. "We brothers, Roy Tankersley and Jim D. Hudson, fully believe that the words of Henry Carnes are truthful and truly state the facts of Roy's death, and that he could not have prevented it in any way; nor was he in any way the cause of Roy's death. It is well known that Roy Tankersley had been for some time very despondent despon-dent on accout of failing health, and had frequently expressed a desire to end his life." |