CHARLIE FOOTE
Az Republican Newspaper
Nov. 1, 1893

Charlie Foote attempted suicide at Mesa on Wednesday night by 
shooting himself with a 44 Smith and Wesson, but his effort 
was unsuccessful.

He will be remembered as the affidavit friend of Alfred L. Trippel 
who obtained a marriage license by misrepresentation.

After leaving Phoenix where he had come to get the license 
revoked, he went to Tempe and thence to Mesa.  Some of the young 
lady's immediate friends threatened to have him arrested for 
perjury and he spent the early evening in trying to square himself.  
Later he went to the residence of Charlie Starr, the home of the 
young lady connected against her wish wit the case and desired 
to see her. Mr. Starr refused to admit him and closed the door 
in his face. He was loath to quit the premises and shouted, 
"I will shoot myself if you do not let me in." He was crazed 
with liquor and wild with excitement but with a deliberation 
born of despair he proceeded to put his threat into execution. 
He fired two shots, the latter of which took effect in his leg 
and he fell in the yard.  John Jones, M.G. Forster and George 
Emmitt, were passing by and came toward him but he still 
declared he would complete the job and threatened to shoot 
the first one that approached. He stood at bay for some time 
when Emmitt offered his services providing he would allow him 
to get the gun.  He finally consented and gave it upon 
condition that Emmitt would immediately shoot him and he 
was then captured and carried to a comfortable room, where a 
physician was summoned.  His wound though painful is not 
serious. Immediately after he was disarmed he was locked up 
in the city jail.

Charlie Foote is well known in Tempe and Mesa and has for some 
time been in the employ of Alfred L. Trippel on a surveying 
tour in the Upper Gila country where their career was varied 
and the work at times temporarily suspended while they were 
getting the surveying instruments out of soak after a few days 
of hilarity.  He is considered rather a bright young man and 
his conduct during the past week can only be charged to the 
flowing bowl of which he has partaken freely. His friend 
Trippel has recovered from the spree and now meditates on 
the folly of his inexcusable conduct.


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