Death due to gunshot wounds, self-inflicted, was the verdict of Justice Ben Fly's coroner's inquest into the shooting of Alex Utley Bransford, 35, found dead in his room at the Baker Hotel just before noon Friday.
Funeral services for Mr. Bransford will be at 3:30 p. m. Saturday at the chapel of Ed C. Smith & Bro., St. Paul and Ross. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Bransford, representative of Travelers Insurance Co., registered at the hotel Thursday morning from Houston. F. L. Strong, who occupied a room on the same floor, and John Patey, hotel carpenter, found his body after Mr. Strong heard a shot. They found him with a bullet hole in the chest and a pistol beside him. A sealed letter was addressed to a relative.
Mr. Bransford is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rowena Bartholomew Bransford; a son, Alex Bransford, by a former marriage; his father, the Rev. Samuel W. Bransford of Tennessee, now visiting in Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. Will R. Wilson and Mrs. Fred Leidecker, both of Dallas; three brothers, Horton Bransford and Tom Bransford of Dallas and John Bransford of Tennessee.
Dallas News
02-11-1933
D. cert: parents: Rev. S. W. Bransford, Willie Horton; spouse: Mrs. Rowana Bransford
Funeral services for Mr. Bransford will be at 3:30 p. m. Saturday at the chapel of Ed C. Smith & Bro., St. Paul and Ross. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Bransford, representative of Travelers Insurance Co., registered at the hotel Thursday morning from Houston. F. L. Strong, who occupied a room on the same floor, and John Patey, hotel carpenter, found his body after Mr. Strong heard a shot. They found him with a bullet hole in the chest and a pistol beside him. A sealed letter was addressed to a relative.
Mr. Bransford is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rowena Bartholomew Bransford; a son, Alex Bransford, by a former marriage; his father, the Rev. Samuel W. Bransford of Tennessee, now visiting in Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. Will R. Wilson and Mrs. Fred Leidecker, both of Dallas; three brothers, Horton Bransford and Tom Bransford of Dallas and John Bransford of Tennessee.
Dallas News
02-11-1933
D. cert: parents: Rev. S. W. Bransford, Willie Horton; spouse: Mrs. Rowana Bransford
Death due to gunshot wounds, self-inflicted, was the verdict of Justice Ben Fly's coroner's inquest into the shooting of Alex Utley Bransford, 35, found dead in his room at the Baker Hotel just before noon Friday.
Funeral services for Mr. Bransford will be at 3:30 p. m. Saturday at the chapel of Ed C. Smith & Bro., St. Paul and Ross. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Bransford, representative of Travelers Insurance Co., registered at the hotel Thursday morning from Houston. F. L. Strong, who occupied a room on the same floor, and John Patey, hotel carpenter, found his body after Mr. Strong heard a shot. They found him with a bullet hole in the chest and a pistol beside him. A sealed letter was addressed to a relative.
Mr. Bransford is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rowena Bartholomew Bransford; a son, Alex Bransford, by a former marriage; his father, the Rev. Samuel W. Bransford of Tennessee, now visiting in Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. Will R. Wilson and Mrs. Fred Leidecker, both of Dallas; three brothers, Horton Bransford and Tom Bransford of Dallas and John Bransford of Tennessee.
Dallas News
02-11-1933
D. cert: parents: Rev. S. W. Bransford, Willie Horton; spouse: Mrs. Rowana Bransford
Funeral services for Mr. Bransford will be at 3:30 p. m. Saturday at the chapel of Ed C. Smith & Bro., St. Paul and Ross. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Bransford, representative of Travelers Insurance Co., registered at the hotel Thursday morning from Houston. F. L. Strong, who occupied a room on the same floor, and John Patey, hotel carpenter, found his body after Mr. Strong heard a shot. They found him with a bullet hole in the chest and a pistol beside him. A sealed letter was addressed to a relative.
Mr. Bransford is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rowena Bartholomew Bransford; a son, Alex Bransford, by a former marriage; his father, the Rev. Samuel W. Bransford of Tennessee, now visiting in Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. Will R. Wilson and Mrs. Fred Leidecker, both of Dallas; three brothers, Horton Bransford and Tom Bransford of Dallas and John Bransford of Tennessee.
Dallas News
02-11-1933
D. cert: parents: Rev. S. W. Bransford, Willie Horton; spouse: Mrs. Rowana Bransford
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