Otto F. Ekeroth |
| Posted 2019-01-08 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Prescott Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Wednesday, October 28, 1914, page 2, column 7 Dead Body of Ekeroth Is Found Had Hung Within The City Limits More Than Six Weeks And Badly Decomposed (From Tuesday's Daily) Decomposed to the extent the joints were disconnected and the flesh slipping from the bones, the body of Otto F. Ekeroth was found Sunday morning at about 9 o'clock within the city limits of Prescott, and a mystery of over six weeks' standing was cleared up. The despondent man had hung himself with a necktie to a scrub oak bush, the ends of the tie being fastened to the oad (sic oak) not more than two feet from the ground. The spot where the self-inflicted death occurred is but about three hundred yards from the south end of Montezuma street, just in the brush near the pit where the city secures sand and gravel for street work, and it is probable many people had passed that way since the tragedy occurred. The grewsome find was made by W. J. Rosenberry, and in the discovery is a coincidence of peculiar character. Rosenberry is the man who last saw Ekroth alive. When the man came up missing Rosenberry reported that he saw him going down the street in the direction of where he met his doom. As soon as the body was found, Judge McLane, acting as coroner, was notified. He had the corpse identified by Harry Brisley, the druggist for whom he had worked, and the man who found it both giving testimony before a jury composed by J. F. Fitzgerald, A. P. Delaney, William Herndon and John Massing, who rendered a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to his death as the result of 'hanging by his own hand.' Mrs. Augusta Cressy, a sister of the dead man, who lives at Phoenix, and who had made a state-wide search for her brother, offering a reward of twenty-five dollars for the body, dead or alive, was notified, and she hastened here to make arrangements for the burial, which will take place today at ten o'clock from the Ruffner mortuary chapel. Mrs. Cressy, who is very much grief-stricken is stopping at the home of Mrs. Philip Hoover, 529 North Pleasant St. Deceased was about fifty years old. |
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