Stephen Brown "Brownie" Hewes (1847-1879)

HEWES

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/5/2012 at 22:21:02

From Nevada Representative January 8, 1879

SUICIDE.--Another suicide is chronicled of one of the citizens of Boone last week. Mr. S. B. Hewes, a merchant tailor of that place for nearly ten years past, being the unfortunate victim. He started for Ogden on Friday morning last, to collect some money due him, failed to get it, and while in the River Land office of Mr. Browne shot himself with a pistol through the right temple. As far as any one has been able to learn yet, financial embarassment seems to be the only thing to which the rash act can be attributed.