Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Crose, Perry 1902
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Arizona Republican-March 28, 1902
PERRY CROSE
Arizona Republican Newspaper
March 28, 1905

Perry Crose, a young man of Mesa, son of J.D. Crose, the 
merchant, committed suicide in the house of his father on 
Sunday during the absence of the family at church, by shooting.

The suicide is thought to be the indirect result of injuries 
sustained by the young man some months ago while employed on 
the Chandler Power Plant at Tempe.  He fell from the plant 
one day and became entangled in a live wire in such a manner 
that his escape from instant death was regarded as a miracle.  
He lay for days between life and death but at last partially 
recovered.  He was not however the same boy.  There were 
certain physical defects which however after a time seemed 
to pass away.  But there was a change in his mind.  He was 
not insane but he seemed to have become in a measure 
irresponsible.  He acquired also an unnatural jovial manner.

His father did not trust him as he had formerly done and 
that seemed to weigh on his mind and he often mentioned it 
to his associates.  On Sunday morning he asked his father 
for the family horse and surrey saying that he wanted to 
take a couple of Tempe Normal girls riding.  His request 
was complied with but when in the evening he reviewed his 
request he was denied.  He turned away and his parents never 
after saw him alive.

He went to the home of a friend a boy named Dykes and told 
him that the world and even the girls turned against him 
and that he was going to commit suicide right away.  Dykes 
took him by the arm, saying, "Come with me.  Put it off for 
a month and you'll feel better."

Dykes persuaded Crose to go home with him and they went to 
bed.  Dykes almost immediately fell asleep but soon awakened 
to find himself alone.  Remembering what Crose had said about 
suicide, he arose, dressed and hurried to the home of the 
Croses.  He knocked at the door but receiving no reply he 
turned away to meet Mr. and Mrs. Crose who were returning 
from church.  He told them why he was there and of the threats 
that young Crose had made.  The door was open and in the half 
darkness a body was seen lying on the floor.  The right side 
of it was then burning.  The young man must have shot himself 
just before the arrival of Dykes and had held the muzzle of 
the revolver so close that the clothing was set on fire.

The young man was nineteen years of age and was well liked 
throughout all the south side.

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