BENJAMIN F. PASCOE Arizona Republican Newspaper May 26, 1901 Mr. Benjamin F. Pascoe who was engaged in the lumber business in Safford, committed suicide last Monday morning by shooting himself through the left breast with a rifle. He placed the weapon on a protruding ledge of the wall and pulled the trigger with a piece of lath. He had been brooding for some time over financial troubles and ill health and left a letter to his son and another to his brother, Charles, saying he had done the deed himself and giving his reasons. Mr. Pascoe was well known all over eastern Arizona and has lived in Globe and the Gila Valley most of the time since the Civil War, first coming to Arizona with the fifth regiment of California volunteers. He was at one time sheriff of Gila County and leaves a wife, two daughters and one son in Globe and one son in Safford.