The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, April 1, 1909 Patterson Bevard, of Union Township, was in the Leader office, Monday, and had a letter stating how CHARLES LEACH had come to his death, out in Arizona An inquiry was made concerning his life insurance, but it seems if he had ever had any he let it lapse. He left two daughters, one in Des Moines and the other at Afton. When MR. LEACH left Ottumwa he went to Missouri and boarded with one lady five years, at Webb City, going from there to Ray, Arizona, with a drilling outfit and company, prospecting for copper. When he left he owed his landlady $50 but she says he sent it to her. After working a while in Arizona he became dissipated and finally was discharged. One day he told a companion he intended to commit suicide, and showed him a bottle of carbolic acid. This was taken from him but he must have had more for later he was found in his shack, dead, and the empty bottle near the bed. The first report which reached here was that he shot himself, but that is not the case, it seems. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert June 20, 2005 iggy29@rnetinc.net