EPPERSON, ben

Longmont Ledger (Longmont, Boulder County, Colorado) Sept 1, 1899 Page 3 SUICIDE Ben Epperson Cuts His Throat With a Large Pocket Knife Delinem tremens is supposed to be the cause of this act, for Ben had been rather more than usually crazy through drink the past week or two. He had not only threatened his wife’s life a week ago, but had actually cut her dress. At half past four o’clock Thursday morning, Mrs. Epperson went to Chas. Cantonwine’s house across the road, both families living in the old Howze and Shier addition, and told Mrs. Cantonwine that she thought Ben was trying to kill himself. She then went to Mr. Sumpter’s house, but by the time he got there the job was done. The house has two rooms and Ben and evidently sat on a couch and stabbed himself around the heart five times, and then cut his throat, deep; he must have stood up and taken a step or two towards the kitchen and fell on his face, the knife with which he committed the act lying at his side, the jugular vein and windpipe severed. Mrs. Epperson thought one of the neighbors had a gang of men marching back and forth in front of his house, for the purpose of shooting him in the morning. Such are the crazy notions of a man with dehriem tremens. In the absence of the Coroner, E. G. Jones took charge of the case and after due examination of the premises and surrounding, decided that an inquest was unnecessary, removed the body to his undertaking rooms. Ben leave a wife and one little daughter seven or eight years old.