DESPONDENT MAN KILLS HIMSELF
Out of a Job and With Domestic
Troubles Ends His Life With Pistol Shot
Using a revolver of ancient pattern and propping himself against a bail of hay, after he had first carefully spread some newspapers beneath him, Edgar Myers, a laborer, 2309 South Twelfth street, shot and killed himself yesterday afternoon. The reason given by members of the family is despondency brought on by non-employment and ill health. This, coupled with domestic troubles, is supposed to have caused the man, who was but 25 years old, to take his life.
Myers was until recently in the employ of the Burlington railway. The family had finished the noon meal yesterday and young Myers was seen to leave the table and go to a barn. A few seconds later a pistol shot was heard and the elder Myers ran to the barn to discover his son writhing on the floor. He was carried to the house and Central police station notified. The wounded man was then sent in the police ambulance to St. Joseph's hospital by the attending physician, Dr. S. D. Packwood. He died an hour later.
(August 18, 1912 issue of the St. Joseph Gazette, St. Joseph, Mo.)
Out of a Job and With Domestic
Troubles Ends His Life With Pistol Shot
Using a revolver of ancient pattern and propping himself against a bail of hay, after he had first carefully spread some newspapers beneath him, Edgar Myers, a laborer, 2309 South Twelfth street, shot and killed himself yesterday afternoon. The reason given by members of the family is despondency brought on by non-employment and ill health. This, coupled with domestic troubles, is supposed to have caused the man, who was but 25 years old, to take his life.
Myers was until recently in the employ of the Burlington railway. The family had finished the noon meal yesterday and young Myers was seen to leave the table and go to a barn. A few seconds later a pistol shot was heard and the elder Myers ran to the barn to discover his son writhing on the floor. He was carried to the house and Central police station notified. The wounded man was then sent in the police ambulance to St. Joseph's hospital by the attending physician, Dr. S. D. Packwood. He died an hour later.
(August 18, 1912 issue of the St. Joseph Gazette, St. Joseph, Mo.)
DESPONDENT MAN KILLS HIMSELF
Out of a Job and With Domestic
Troubles Ends His Life With Pistol Shot
Using a revolver of ancient pattern and propping himself against a bail of hay, after he had first carefully spread some newspapers beneath him, Edgar Myers, a laborer, 2309 South Twelfth street, shot and killed himself yesterday afternoon. The reason given by members of the family is despondency brought on by non-employment and ill health. This, coupled with domestic troubles, is supposed to have caused the man, who was but 25 years old, to take his life.
Myers was until recently in the employ of the Burlington railway. The family had finished the noon meal yesterday and young Myers was seen to leave the table and go to a barn. A few seconds later a pistol shot was heard and the elder Myers ran to the barn to discover his son writhing on the floor. He was carried to the house and Central police station notified. The wounded man was then sent in the police ambulance to St. Joseph's hospital by the attending physician, Dr. S. D. Packwood. He died an hour later.
(August 18, 1912 issue of the St. Joseph Gazette, St. Joseph, Mo.)
Out of a Job and With Domestic
Troubles Ends His Life With Pistol Shot
Using a revolver of ancient pattern and propping himself against a bail of hay, after he had first carefully spread some newspapers beneath him, Edgar Myers, a laborer, 2309 South Twelfth street, shot and killed himself yesterday afternoon. The reason given by members of the family is despondency brought on by non-employment and ill health. This, coupled with domestic troubles, is supposed to have caused the man, who was but 25 years old, to take his life.
Myers was until recently in the employ of the Burlington railway. The family had finished the noon meal yesterday and young Myers was seen to leave the table and go to a barn. A few seconds later a pistol shot was heard and the elder Myers ran to the barn to discover his son writhing on the floor. He was carried to the house and Central police station notified. The wounded man was then sent in the police ambulance to St. Joseph's hospital by the attending physician, Dr. S. D. Packwood. He died an hour later.
(August 18, 1912 issue of the St. Joseph Gazette, St. Joseph, Mo.)
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