Florence Hicklin |
| Posted 2018-09-12 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Arizona Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Friday, July 6, 1906, page 5, column 1 Jealous - Crazed Woman Suicides Florence Hicklin, a Woman With a History, Puts a Bullet In Her Brain At Blanchard, After a Quarrel With The Man She Loved In a fit of Jealous passion while crazed with drink, Florence Hicklin, a saloon woman, ended her life on Tuesday evening about 7 o'clock in the Grand View saloon at Blanchard by putting a bullet through her brain. The weapon used for the rash deed was a Colts' revolver of .45 caliber, the leaden missile entering the right side of the head a distance above the ear and completely destroying the upper portion of the skull. It appears that a short time before the hour mentioned she entered the place and engaged in a altercation with one of the visitors of the resort, threatening to take his life on account of some fancied grievance. Later she walked a short distance from the bar and pulling the revolver, fired two shots through the building, after which she seated herself by a card table in one of the corners of the place and resting her right arm carefully placed the muzzle of the cocked revolver against the right side of her head in close proximity to the right ear, and pulled the trigger, death resulting almost instantaneously. Justice of the peace Foley of McCabe was at once notified, and repairing to the scene to be at once impaneled a coroner's jury, which returned a verdict in accordance with the facts above stated. The remains were later taken in charge by the undertaking parlors of H. M. Maus & Col, and brought to this city, fro, whence the funeral took place last evening at 5 o'clock, interment taking place in the Citizens' cemetery, Rev.. Wheatley of the Marina street Methodist church officiating. Her tragic end recalls to mind many regrettable incidents of the two past years of her life in this community. On June 21, 1904, her brother, Fred Hicklin, shot and instantly killed Jud Molino, within less than a mile of the scene of her death, for, as she is said to have represent, insulting her. For the crime both were arrested and held to appear before the grand jury, which returned true bills against them. Fred Hicklin was tried and convicted on the charge of murder, and sentenced to serve 25 years in the territorial prison at Yuma, where he is now incarcerated, and a verdict of murder in the second degree was returned against her. Later, a motion was made by her attorneys for a new trial, which was granted, the second jury returned a verdict of acquittal. Some months ago she was married but apparently tiring of the monogamous life of being queen of the household, quit her spouse after spending one night under the roof he provided for her, taking refuge in the red light district of this city, where she was later the cause of many disputes, which almost culminated in bloodshed. She left her some months ago for the vicinity where she ended her career one month before the age of 21 years. Transcriber's note: Ms. Hicklin is buried in an unmarked grave at the Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona. |
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