The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-10
THE PISTOL.
Lyman Shepard, Commit g Honss. "
mrs. Domaine BOnTdIss nOu'e

Lyman Shepard Commit f House.
MTa. DonIan,s BonTdiss nouSs.
40. . a,o,oer yesterday. morning
Apuus .,sTd, an artist In the employ
L ae.asasls. Brown & Higgins, photograph.
s ~ committed suicide nhiS room in Mrs.
DOMAINS boarding house, ohapline street,
by ahooting himself through the head
with o pistol. Shortly after ! o'clock Mr.
Shepard came home and sat down In his
room. his vito asked him II he was not
coming to bed soon, and he answered that
he thought he would read o little. BE
then began looking about the room, in
bureau drawers, ETC., as II In search Of
something. Upon his vile asking him
.whathe was looking for, he replied that
he wanted his pistol. She OF first refused
to tell him where 1t was, as lie had about
o week before threatened to shoot him
sell; but he declared that Il he could not
find 1.-THE would 60. out on the street and
get one. She then told him where ii was
concealed, and when. he had secured ii
asked him what he intended to do.
he sat down upon rockingham
with the pistol in his hand, say
ing, ~ won't hurt you. my dear r. and
Immediately held the pistol TO his right
temple and discharged it Mrs. Shepard
ran 10 DR.. Aliens room, directly across
the passage, telling him that her husband
had shot himself. The doctor found him
sitting in the rockingham in his bare
feet, dressed only in q night shirt and
pair Of pants, as If ready to retire. In
his right hand he still held the pistol
and his head was hanging over. his right
shoulder. he was already dead.
Soon afterwards r. q. Gillespy, Justice
Of the Peace for Madison township, sum-
moned the following gentlemen to act as
Jurors in an inquest upon the body OF Mr..
Shepard: B.. A. Galligan, foreman; r.
g Brown, Thos. ]. Finney, ]. F. Jones,
Thos. Ii. Darrah, F. Lange, John ID.
REYNOLDS, A. ]. Caldwell, Jas. Watson
W. J. W. Cowden, 81. E. Brown, ]. D,
Flynn, = Is e.
Dr.. B. W. Allen deposed as follows; ]
was awakened In the night by Mrs. Lyman
Shepard. who said thar her husband had
shot himself. Immediately came into
line room and found him setting In the
chair Just as he is now, and found that his
pulse was still beating, but that he was
evidently dying. About week ago his
wife came to me and requested me to
come into his room, for he had threatened
TO shoot himself. Invent to bis room, but
ho laughed and said there was nothing OF
| II and for me TO tell his wife TO come
back. I told her to come back, as / had
mart of the pistol and he could not shoot
himself II he wanted to. She then re-
turned, but came back afterwards for the
part OF the pistol had.
DR.. George Baird, after being sworn,
said: About the centre OF the right tenn.
ple on the line OF the eyebrows there Is
cunshot wound, which passed, by the di.
rection OF the probe, obliquely through
the brain, and produced fracture Of the
skull about one inch above the left ear.
The skin Is blackened with powder at the
edge Of the wound. The pistol Is still in
his right hand, and only one chamber Ia
empty-the other tour being loaded. The
wound as above described was necessari.
lly fatal, and was the cause Of his death.
The remainder Of the testimony elicit.
ed nothing Of importance more than the
facts mentioned above.
The verdict Of the jury is as follows:
State Of ". Va, Ohio Co, to 4ea::
An inquisition taken at the residence Of
Mrs. Mary Donlan, No. - Chapline
street, in the city Of Wheeling and coun-
| " OF Ohio, on the 9th day OF December
In the year eighteen hundred and seventy.
three, before r. 81. Gillespy, a Justice Of
the district Of Madison in said county Of
Ohio, upon view Of the body Of Lyman
Shepard, there lying dead. The jurors
sworn 10 inquire when, how and by what
means the said Lyman Shepard came to
his death, upon their oaths do say that
his death was caused by gun.shoi
wound in the right temple, inflicted by
himself with pistol found In his right
hand.
Mr.. Shepard came to this city from
Oneida, New York, about four years ago
He has been married two years, and leaves
a wife and child. He was probably thir-
ty two years Of age, and during his resi-
dence in this city has enjoyed the conf
dence and esteem Of large number Of
our most respectable citizens. he drank
occasionally, but never TO excess. &c
was employed as usual on Monday, and
nothing unusual was observed in his &C.
tons on that day or night. No definite
reason can be ascribed Tor the commission
Of the rash act.