Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Mathers, Samuel T. 1915
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Payette Enterprise 8-12-1915
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, August 12, 1915

SAMUEL MATHERS COMMITS SUICIDE

CUTS HIS THROAT ALMOST SEVERING HEAD FROM BODY - LIFE EXTINCT WHEN BODY FOUND

On last Friday, August 6th, word reached Payette that Samuel Teets Mathers, 
who has been living with his daughter Mrs. William Wing, and her husband, on 
Big Willow, had committed suicide, at the Wing home. By authority of the 
County coroner the remains were brought to Payette Friday evening, at which 
time statements of witnesses were taken.

The following memorandum notes of Dr. J. C. Woodward, taken about 6 P.M., 
Friday evening, August 6, 1915, at J. A. Lauer's store, from the statements of 
Lloyd Pence and P.E. Miller, in the presence of Burt Venable, J.A. Lauer and 
Glenn Landon gives the facts fully.

Statement of Lloyd Pence:

"Sometime after dinner Violet Wing granddaughter of the deceased came to my 
residence and asked for the loan of a horse to go and notify Mr. Wm. Wing, who 
was working for Mr. P. E. Miller, that her grandfather had killed himself and 
that he should come home. Violet said that her grandfather had cut his throat 
with a razor. I notified Mr. Miller at once by telephone and Mr. Miller took 
Mr. Wing home in the automobile. Ike Carter and I then went to the Wing home. 
I found there Mrs. Wing and her sister, Miss Mathers, and I inquired where the 
body was and was informed that it was in the cellar. Mr. Carter and I went to 
the door of the cellar and saw the deceased lying dead in a reclining position 
against the unfinished portion of the cellar. He held the razor in his right 
hand and his throat was cut across. There was blood everywhere. Some of it had 
spurted up on the points of the house. Mr. Miller and Mr. Wing arrived shortly 
afterward and we four entered the cellar covered the body with a canvas and 
hung two quilts over the door. I then came home and telephoned the facts of 
the suicide to Dr. J. C. Woodward, who in turn notified the coroner who 
authorized me by telephone to remove the body to the undertaking rooms of J. 
A. Lauer and Bro. Accompanied by Mr. Miller we took the body by automobile to 
Payette and arrived there about 5:20 p.m. I found a letter near the body which 
I turned over to the daughter Miss Mathers. This letter was read by Mr. 
Miller. The body must have been dead over an hour when I first saw it. Death 
occurred on this day, Friday, August 6, 1915."

Deceased is survived by his wife and two daughters. Mrs. Mathers arrived from 
Oregon City Saturday noon. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon and 
interment was at Riverside cemetery.

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