NEWSPAPERS: Ed Williams suicide, Medford, Jackson Co., Oregon *************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with United States Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by noncommercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *************************************************************************** Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elizabeth Corethers 26 Jan 2003 *************************************************************************** Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Monday, 6 Mar 1944, p. 1 ED WILLIAMS, 77, TAKES OWN LIFE WITH REVOLVER In poor health for some time, Ed Williams, 77, a roomer at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Spencer, 310 North Bartlett street, took his own life about 12:45 p.m. Sunday by firing a .38 caliber Colt automatic bullet into the left side of his head, city police and the coroner's office stated. Police, who were summoned to the house by Mrs. Spencer, who heard the shot wile she was downstairs, found the aged man lying across his bed in an upstairs room, fully dressed. The automatic was in his left hand. Mrs. Spencer told police that Williams had been ill for a long time and a local doctor who had been treating him quoted him as saying, Saturday night, "If I don't get better I'll take my gun some day and finish it up." The deceased had no relatives so far as can be determined and Coroner H. W. Conger said that, in a crude will he made out himself, Williams left his meager possessions to Mrs. Spencer and his pistol to Sheriff Syd I. Brown. Funeral arrangements were being made today. Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Thursday, 9 Mar 1944, p. 3 Services for Edward Williams, who passed away Sunday at his home, 310 N. Bartlett, will be held at the graveside in I.O.O.F. cemetery at 1 p.m. Friday with the Rev. W. A. Dawes officiating. Arrangements are in care of the Conger-Morris chapel. He was born in LaPorte county, Ind., Nov. 19, 1867. For the past seven years he had made his home in Medford. A daughter and a sister survive.