Horace Windfield Tilton |
| Posted 2016-05-11 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Weekly Arizona Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Wednesday, November 28, 1900, page 2, column 4 Commits Suicide Horace W. Tilton Recently of Prescott, Ends His Life By Stabbing Himself on a Train B. Tilton, the bicycle man, on Thursday, received two telegrams announcing that his brother, Horace Tilton, had died in Albuquerque, November 21. One of the telegrams was from a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at Dunsmuir, California, the other was from another brother, who is superintendent of a railroad in Mexico. No particulars were given in either telegram, each reciting the bare announcement of his death. The Albuquerque Citizen of November 20 gives an extended notice of it, saying that Tilton had stabbed himself eleven times in the region of the heart, while on a Santa Fe Pacific train on Monday, and his death occurred on the morning of the 21st instant. No cause can be assigned for the rash act, and although conscious before his death, he refused to give any explanation of the deed. Horace Tilton was a locomotive engineer about forty years old. He formerly run one the Santa Fe Pacific railroad between Albuquerque and Winslow, and his last railroading was out of Tucson on the Southern Pacific. He came to Prescott shortly after the big fire for a visit to his mother and brother, who reside here. He seemed pleased with the town and bought a lot adjoining the Scopel property on the south and put up a brick building on it. He spent most of his time in his brother's shop next door to the Journal-Miner office, since the latter moved there. He was of a very quiet, though affable, nature. On Sunday he left Prescott, saying that he was going to Mexico to visit a brother, who is a railroad superintendent there, and the news of his death yesterday was both a surprise and a shock to his relatives. Tilton had been engaged in conversation with the conductor of the train just previous to the commission of the deed. After leaving the conductor he went to the ladies' toilet, where he was afterwards found unconscious in a pool of his own blood, the blood still pouring from his wounds. The Citizen states that he had about $200 in his clothes. The B. of L. E. took charge of his remains while the brother from Mexico telegraphed the brother here that he would reach Albuquerque today to look after the body. B. Tilton telegraphed to have the remains embalmed and shipped to Prescott for burial. The only reason he gave for his act was that he was tired of living. Deceased was a man of steady and correct habits, and had saved a considerable amount of money from his earnings as an engineer. ------------------- Weekly Arizona Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Wednesday, May 6, 1903, page 4, column 2 The Local News of the City and County - The remains of the late Horace Tilton, who died about two and a half years ago will be taken up today and will be shipped tomorrow to Los Angeles for burial. His brother, B. Tilton will accompany them. |
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