George West

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George West

Date of Birth: 1849

Born In: Michigan

Age: 65

Occupation: Shop Keeper

Marital Status: Married

Died: 21 Jan 1914

Cause of Death: Gunshot wound of leg; self inflicted

Death Location: Redwood City

Burial Plot: Redmen

FindaGrave ID: 234784008

George West

Obituary

GEORGE WEST
Redwood City Democrat, January 22, 1914
It was a severe shock to the many friends of George West yesterday when they learned that he was dead with a gunshot wound self inflicted and supposedly with suicidal intent. For several days West had been despondent and at different times had declared his purpose of killing himself, but his friends attempted to cheer him up and dissuade him from this course apparently succeeding.
Late Tuesday night he left his home and went to his office in the building on Washington Street, where he maintained a store room and rented rooms. Shots were heard at different times through the night by roomers in the building but no attention was paid to them. At 8 o'clock yesterday morning, Frank Austin, one of the tenants, asked some friends to assist him in investigating the matter and following a trail of blood, they found the dead body of West fully dressed on a bed in one of the rooms, with a revolver still grasped in his hand. The bloody trail led from the office where the shooting took place to a room in the third story of the building and indicated that after West had shot himself, he had walked up two flights of stairs to the bed and lay himself down to die The sheriff and deputy coroner were summoned and the body was taken to the morgue, where upon examination, the bullet wound was found in the left thigh, severing the main artery and causing death from loss of blood.

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