From the Orleans Progress, September 22, 1892
Emory Cathcart, a saloon keeper at Stampers Creek shot himself last Friday evening and
came very near being the center of attraction in a first-class funeral. Emory likes a
drink of 'the stuff that cheers" and when once started is liable to get more than
he can manage. On this occasion he was pretty well filled up and taking his revolver stuck
the muzzle of it in his mouth and remarked that "there was not a man in the Burg had
grit enough to do that." The bullet went crashing through his head and before the
spectators had time to think Cathcart lay on the floor unconscious. His recovery is
considered doubtful and no one will possibly ever known whether he done the shooting
purposely or by accident.
LATER- He is now in a fair way to recover, the ball having struck his teeth, tearing out
eight of them and inflicting a painful wound in the mouth.