CHESTER CHARLES "CHET" BLANCHARD
CHESTER CHARLES BLANCHARD ENDS HIS LIFE WITH RIFLE
Chester Charles Blanchard committed suicide about 3:00 o'clock Monday afternoon by sending a 30-30 bullet into his left breast in the bunk house on the "Billy" Williams' ranch.
Sheriff Nicholson and Coroner Acheson were notified and left immediately for the scene of the tragedy, returning Monday night with the body.
Funeral services were conducted in the Wilkes Chapel yesterday afternoon, Rev. Edward White, pastor of the Community Church, in charge.
Chester Charles Blanchard was born in Chaffee County, Colorado, October 3, 1870 and was 59 years, 3 months, and 17 days old at the time of his passing.
He is survived by one son, Louis Blanchard, and two daughters, Mrs. E. H. Finch and Mrs. H. E. Cassatt, and seven grandchildren, all of Salida, Colo.; also two brothers and two sisters.
It was so clearly a suicide that Coroner Acheson did not hold an inquest. "Chet" Blanchard was last seen alive about 1:30 o'clock Monday at which time he left the Williams' ranch home for the bunk house, after eating his dinner. It appears from the picture that he packed his trunk, changed to a clean suit of underclothes, and after spreading a canvas on the floor, sat down upon it, placed the stock of his 30-30 rifle against a box against the wall of the bunk house, and after placing the muzzle of the rifle against his left breast, pushed the trigger with a stick about 18 inches long.
About 3:30, "Billy" Williams remarked to his wife, "Guess I'll go and cheer up Chet for a while." When he opened the door, he found Chet lying on his back, dead. Owing to the blizzard of Monday afternoon, the report of the rifle shot was not hear in the Williams' home.
Chet Blanchard had lived in this district for many years. About five years ago he left for Buena Vista, where he remained up to three years ago, when he returned and has made his home on the Williams' ranch.
He was a man that made many friends by his happy disposition and manly character. The cause of his act is believed to have been induced by a severe attack of flu some three weeks ago and from which he was suffering at the time of his taking his life.
Aspen Daily Times
Transcribed by Carol Moore
January 24, 1930
Aspen, Colorado
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CHESTER CHARLES BLANCHARD ENDS HIS LIFE WITH RIFLE
Chester Charles Blanchard committed suicide about 3:00 o'clock Monday afternoon by sending a 30-30 bullet into his left breast in the bunk house on the "Billy" Williams' ranch.
Sheriff Nicholson and Coroner Acheson were notified and left immediately for the scene of the tragedy, returning Monday night with the body.
Funeral services were conducted in the Wilkes Chapel yesterday afternoon, Rev. Edward White, pastor of the Community Church, in charge.
Chester Charles Blanchard was born in Chaffee County, Colorado, October 3, 1870 and was 59 years, 3 months, and 17 days old at the time of his passing.
He is survived by one son, Louis Blanchard, and two daughters, Mrs. E. H. Finch and Mrs. H. E. Cassatt, and seven grandchildren, all of Salida, Colo.; also two brothers and two sisters.
It was so clearly a suicide that Coroner Acheson did not hold an inquest. "Chet" Blanchard was last seen alive about 1:30 o'clock Monday at which time he left the Williams' ranch home for the bunk house, after eating his dinner. It appears from the picture that he packed his trunk, changed to a clean suit of underclothes, and after spreading a canvas on the floor, sat down upon it, placed the stock of his 30-30 rifle against a box against the wall of the bunk house, and after placing the muzzle of the rifle against his left breast, pushed the trigger with a stick about 18 inches long.
About 3:30, "Billy" Williams remarked to his wife, "Guess I'll go and cheer up Chet for a while." When he opened the door, he found Chet lying on his back, dead. Owing to the blizzard of Monday afternoon, the report of the rifle shot was not hear in the Williams' home.
Chet Blanchard had lived in this district for many years. About five years ago he left for Buena Vista, where he remained up to three years ago, when he returned and has made his home on the Williams' ranch.
He was a man that made many friends by his happy disposition and manly character. The cause of his act is believed to have been induced by a severe attack of flu some three weeks ago and from which he was suffering at the time of his taking his life.
Aspen Daily Times
Transcribed by Carol Moore
January 24, 1930
Aspen, Colorado
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CHESTER CHARLES "CHET" BLANCHARD
CHESTER CHARLES BLANCHARD ENDS HIS LIFE WITH RIFLE
Chester Charles Blanchard committed suicide about 3:00 o'clock Monday afternoon by sending a 30-30 bullet into his left breast in the bunk house on the "Billy" Williams' ranch.
Sheriff Nicholson and Coroner Acheson were notified and left immediately for the scene of the tragedy, returning Monday night with the body.
Funeral services were conducted in the Wilkes Chapel yesterday afternoon, Rev. Edward White, pastor of the Community Church, in charge.
Chester Charles Blanchard was born in Chaffee County, Colorado, October 3, 1870 and was 59 years, 3 months, and 17 days old at the time of his passing.
He is survived by one son, Louis Blanchard, and two daughters, Mrs. E. H. Finch and Mrs. H. E. Cassatt, and seven grandchildren, all of Salida, Colo.; also two brothers and two sisters.
It was so clearly a suicide that Coroner Acheson did not hold an inquest. "Chet" Blanchard was last seen alive about 1:30 o'clock Monday at which time he left the Williams' ranch home for the bunk house, after eating his dinner. It appears from the picture that he packed his trunk, changed to a clean suit of underclothes, and after spreading a canvas on the floor, sat down upon it, placed the stock of his 30-30 rifle against a box against the wall of the bunk house, and after placing the muzzle of the rifle against his left breast, pushed the trigger with a stick about 18 inches long.
About 3:30, "Billy" Williams remarked to his wife, "Guess I'll go and cheer up Chet for a while." When he opened the door, he found Chet lying on his back, dead. Owing to the blizzard of Monday afternoon, the report of the rifle shot was not hear in the Williams' home.
Chet Blanchard had lived in this district for many years. About five years ago he left for Buena Vista, where he remained up to three years ago, when he returned and has made his home on the Williams' ranch.
He was a man that made many friends by his happy disposition and manly character. The cause of his act is believed to have been induced by a severe attack of flu some three weeks ago and from which he was suffering at the time of his taking his life.
Aspen Daily Times
Transcribed by Carol Moore
January 24, 1930
Aspen, Colorado
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CHESTER CHARLES BLANCHARD ENDS HIS LIFE WITH RIFLE
Chester Charles Blanchard committed suicide about 3:00 o'clock Monday afternoon by sending a 30-30 bullet into his left breast in the bunk house on the "Billy" Williams' ranch.
Sheriff Nicholson and Coroner Acheson were notified and left immediately for the scene of the tragedy, returning Monday night with the body.
Funeral services were conducted in the Wilkes Chapel yesterday afternoon, Rev. Edward White, pastor of the Community Church, in charge.
Chester Charles Blanchard was born in Chaffee County, Colorado, October 3, 1870 and was 59 years, 3 months, and 17 days old at the time of his passing.
He is survived by one son, Louis Blanchard, and two daughters, Mrs. E. H. Finch and Mrs. H. E. Cassatt, and seven grandchildren, all of Salida, Colo.; also two brothers and two sisters.
It was so clearly a suicide that Coroner Acheson did not hold an inquest. "Chet" Blanchard was last seen alive about 1:30 o'clock Monday at which time he left the Williams' ranch home for the bunk house, after eating his dinner. It appears from the picture that he packed his trunk, changed to a clean suit of underclothes, and after spreading a canvas on the floor, sat down upon it, placed the stock of his 30-30 rifle against a box against the wall of the bunk house, and after placing the muzzle of the rifle against his left breast, pushed the trigger with a stick about 18 inches long.
About 3:30, "Billy" Williams remarked to his wife, "Guess I'll go and cheer up Chet for a while." When he opened the door, he found Chet lying on his back, dead. Owing to the blizzard of Monday afternoon, the report of the rifle shot was not hear in the Williams' home.
Chet Blanchard had lived in this district for many years. About five years ago he left for Buena Vista, where he remained up to three years ago, when he returned and has made his home on the Williams' ranch.
He was a man that made many friends by his happy disposition and manly character. The cause of his act is believed to have been induced by a severe attack of flu some three weeks ago and from which he was suffering at the time of his taking his life.
Aspen Daily Times
Transcribed by Carol Moore
January 24, 1930
Aspen, Colorado
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