| Show SUICIDE OF C S WHITNEY DURING A FIT OP OF TEMPORARY INSANITY THE CAUSE STILL SHROUDED I 1 IN MYSTERY the coroners inquest over the remains of charles y S whitney whose terrible fate was recorded in yester days NEWS failed to give any additional light as to the reasons why the unfortunate young man should take his own life the jurors chosen were 0 S burton oscar hardy aud and H M wells dr harrison barnson Har miss genevieve Wal tey mrs mary whitney mrs B P musser mrs lulu S horrocks mr B young and mr rampton were examined as witnesses the testimony given showed that for some time past the du deceased ceased had been afflicted with a severe attack of catarrh which at times caused the most excruciating pains in the head for several days he had been far from well but yesterday morning went to his work as usual at henry furniture store he came home at noor ate a very light meal and returned to the tee store he went away from there shortly after leaving it a little boy in charge something very unusual he returned home during which time he be met with mr B young who is about to to leave on a mission to new Zeala zealand ild and expressed a wish that he was going along ne men bomi do town and came back home holding his head as if in great agony he went up stairs and a few moments after a pistol shot was heard miss genevieve whitney and a companion hurried up stairs where a horrible sight met thir their gaze there lay ane deceased in his bis own blood in the throes of death the pistol which was the property of miss Flo Musser with which the deed had been com mitt edlay beside him and the ball had passed through his nead head entering above the right ear ranging upward and coming out on the opposite side of the head and sticking in the ceiling from where it fell onto the bed an alarm was soon given and mrs mary whitney called in dr harrison who chanced to be passing nothing had been said by the deceased ceas d indicating aby aay intention to destroy his life he had been paying attentions tent ions to mrs lulu S horrocks Hor mrs Mus hussers mussers sers daughter and was to have called on her la last st evening he had bad also made an engagement to go out teaching with james M barlow mrs horrocks stated that there had been no unpleasantness between them to cause the commission of such an act in fact their relations had been most amicable while engaged at Dinwood eya store the actions of the deceased recently had bad indicated that his brain was affected his memory was very poor at tim esaud his actions when suffering pains in the head were very strange still there anere was no idea that anything serious would be the result the coroners jury rendered a verdict that the deceased came to his death from a wound inflicted by a pistol in his own hands and from all the circumstances cum stances it appears t bat at the time his reason had given way and be was suffering from temporary aberration the fearful intel was sent to his bis mother at Meadow meadowville ville and his brother bishop whitnea Whit nev who was up in the bafton bishop whitney arrived home about midnight last night and sister whitney may possibly reach the city this evening the burial will rot take place until her arrival |
