Gold Hill Suicide
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C. S. Cooperperson
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a.k.a. Cooper
Judge Titusperson
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a.k.a. Judge Titus
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of the collar bone.
From ihe October 10, 1890, Issue of The Enterprise
Gold Hill Suicide
For a past week or so C. S. Cooper was on
a spree at Gold Hill. Tuesday he apparently
sobered up some and took a Winchester rifle
and went hunting. After he had been out a
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while he came into A1 Miller’s tent and asked
for a drink of water. He then laid down and
said he was going to sleep. Miller left him
went down town. Shortly afterwards a number
of shots were heard at the tent and it was de-
cided that Cooper was shooting his rifle, a
forty-four, and had set the tent on fire. Cooper
left the tent and started for the hills, shooting
his gun and acting strangely. It was apparent
that the whiskey was getting in its work and
that Cooper had developed a most decided case
of jimjams. Being armed as he was no one
cared to go out and tackle him. He was seen
to go into the grove, another shot was fired and
nothing more was heard of Cooper. Shortly
afterwards a number of men went over to in-
vestigate and found poor Cooper dead. He had
put the muzzle of the gun in his mouth, pulled
the trigger and blown out his left cheek and
eye and the whole back of his head. Word was
sent to Lordsburg and Judge Titus went out
and held an inquest in which were developed
the above facts. C. S. Cooper was a young man
between twenty-five and thirty and had always
borne a good reputation. He had lived at Gold
Hill about two years and was well liked. He
left no immediate family, but had a brother at
Willcox and another at Dos Cabezas. — Liberal.