STRAUSBURG, Albert

Arizona Daily Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Thursday, January 7, 1909, page 8, col. 4 City News In Brief Remains Interred The remains of Albert Strausburg, who was found dead Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock near the Fitzsimmons brickyard with a bullet wound in the center of his forehead, was interred yesterday in the Citizens Cemetery. The funeral was attended by a large number of the Hebrew residents of the city and their friends. ------------------ Weekly Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Wednesday, January 13, 1909, page 3, col. 3 Stranger Shots Himself At City Outskirts (From Wednesday's Daily) Lying amid a cluster of hill rocks at the western outskirts of Prescott, the neatly dressed body of a young man was found shortly after 9 o'clock yesterday morning by Pete Briato, an Italian workman. A Bullet hole in the center of the forehead blackened by powder stains and a revolver clamped in the right hand told the tale of another human entity that had looked upon the Eternal Sunrise. While the clothes of the body indicated by their quality and condition that the man had been no pauper, no money and nothing of value save an inexpensive watch was brought out by the reach of the coroner. A trunk check from Wiliams, however, was found in a pocket and this lead to the probable name of the dead man. From documents, principally naturalization paper, it would seem the name of the suicide was Albert Strausburg, but recently a garment maker in Denver. The naturalization papers found in the trunk disclose Strausburg, a native of Russia, was naturalized in this country, Oct. 31, 1903, in the Court of Common Pleas, Camden, N. Y. A union card states the same Albert Strausburg was a member of the Clothing Makers' Union, No. 16, Denver. An address, probably the dead man's Denver residing place, 1723 Jefferson street, was also learned. The Suicide was about 33 years old, weighing perhaps 160 pounds. His features were of Russian Jewish east. In the trunk was found considerable linen and outer wearing apparel, all in the best condition and clean. There were many photographs in which the dead man figured, probably taken at Denver. The suicide took place between 8 and 9 o'clock Monday evening. This is certain as rigor mortis had long since set in when the body was found. Moreover, the wife of Tim Fitzsimmons, who has his home and brickyard near the spot where the body was found, heard a shot about that time. The body was taken to Ruffner's undertaking establishment. No person in Prescott so far as was developed, knows anything of the suicide. He had not been seen about town by anyone who recalls the fact. When he arrived is also unknown. On account of the trunk having been checked from Williams it is thought he may have spent some time at that place. Inquiries will be made at that point. Transcriber's note: There is no headstone marking Mr. Strausburg's place of burial.