Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Coffee, Ben 1920
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Payette Enterprise  10-14-1820
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, October 14, 1920

BEN COFFEE ENDS LIFE

Ben Coffee, a resident of Washoe Bottom, committed suicide sometime during 
Thursday night by shooting himself through the heart with a shotgun. His body 
was found about noon Friday by Mr. Pettit, a neighbor who was passing by and 
stopped at his home on the C.F. Draper ranch, as had been his usual custom. 
When Mr. Pettit entered the house -- a small tenement house on the Draper 
ranch -- he found the lifeless body in a pool of blood lying on the bed with 
the upper part of the body uncovered and a shot-gun under the covers where it 
had been kicked to the foot of the bed by the recoil of the charge. It was 
evident the gun was discharged by means of using his toe on the trigger. The 
charge entered the body directly over the heart causing instant death. Mr. 
Pettit at once notified Sheriff Jeffries who immediately went to the scene in 
company with County Attorney R.E. Haynes and Undertaker Glenn Landon who 
brought the remains to Lauers' Undertaking Parlor. As the evidence at hand 
showed clearly a case of suicide, no inquest was held. Domestic trouble is 
supposed to have been the cause of the rash act. Funeral services were held 
from the Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. The deceased was 33 
years of age and leaves a wife, a mother, one sister and one brother. 

Additional Comments:
Burial at Riverside Cemetery. ch

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