Cox, James B.

50 years old, shot himself in the head at his home, 425 South Treece Street, Picher Oklahoma at 3:30 yesterday afternoon and died two hours later. Despondency because of ill health was given as the motive. The bullet from a .32 caliber pistol entered his head above the right ear. He was unconscious until he died. An investigation was conducted by Mayor Harley Jennings and Patrolman Herman Brewer, who said they found Cox on a bed with the pistol in his right hand. Mrs. Cox, who was in another room, heard the shot. Cox had been in ill health for the last two years, suffering from tuberculosis. He had lived in Picher 18 years and during that time was employed as a hard rock lead and zinc miner. County Attorney A. Clark was notified, and after viewing the body and advising with local authorities, stated that an inquest was unnecessary. Surviving relatives include the widow, Mrs. Grace Cox; a son, Homer Cox, and a daughter, Maxine Cox, at home, and two sisters, Mrs. W. G. Fagan of Joplin Missouri and Mrs. Ethel Stockberger of Springfield Missouri. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body is at the parlors of the Green undertaking company.