Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Alderson, E.W. 1901
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Arizona Republican-February 1, 1901
Despondency, due to the loss of his savings in an 
unfortunate business venture, is believed to have 
been the chief reason why E.W. Alderson took his 
own life at his residence, 303 Magoffin Avenue at 
4:30 o'clock, yesterday, says the El Paso Herald.

Alderson was 42 years of age.  He came to this city 
nearly a year ago from Arizona and had recently been 
in the employ of the Candalaria Mining Company of 
Juarez.  Some months ago he invested his savings, 
about $800 in the Senate Saloon, supposing he was 
purchasing a half interest.  The owners, it is said, 
took possession and Alderson lost the money he had 
invested.  For several days past he had been drinking 
heavily, but arose yesterday morning and said he was 
going to work.  Instead of hoing, however, he remained 
at home during the day and seemed to be in a melancholy 
frame of mind.

A few minutes after 4 o'clock he went into the bath 
room.  No one had a suspicion that anything was wrong 
until a muffled report was heard.  The next moment 
Alderson staggered into the room with the blood 
streaming from a jagged hole in the temple.  He fell 
backward without speaking a word.

Naturally the members of the family were horrified and 
overcome by the spectacle.  They laid the wounded man 
on the bed and hastily summoned Drs. Bush, Irwin and 
Thompson but the physicians were unable to stay the 
and of death and after an examination pronounced the 
wound fatal.

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