EMIL SIDOW
September 15, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper

Safford--Last night the guests of the Commercial Hotel at 
Safford were startled by the report of a revolver in the 
building.  Friends rushed to the room occupied by Mr. Emil 
Sidow from which the noise seemed to have proceeded.  He 
was found with a bullet wound extending from the mouth 
through the back of his head.  The fatal ball had done 
its work well. Life was extinct.  Mr. Sidow was well known 
in southeastern Arizona, as he has been here a number of 
years.  For a time he served as postmaster at Tombstone and 
for years was engaged in the mercantile business at this 
place.

The cause of his despondence is attributed to business and 
domestic troubles. He actually worshipped his wife, who so 
little appreciated his devotion as to leave him some 
eighteen months ago and marry another man.

He has been broken up ever since and recent complications 
arising from a business matter brought about a revolution 
of feeling that ended in his death.  The evening of his 
demise he was especially despondent. He leaves a boy about 
twelve years old who stays with his mother at El Paso, 
Texas. He was laid to rest in the city of the dead near 
Safford by kindly hands.