Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-01-08
SUICIDE AT BARToNsvILLE.

About quarter to nine, Thursday
morning of last week, Bartonsville was
thrown into a most unexpected fervor of
grief and sadness by the announcement
that G. n Gould was shot. Mr.. G. had
but recently succeeded o. w. Fletcher
in the store and post Office in the place,
and as SO many dastardly acts are being
daily committed conjecture was rife of
foul play, but the sequel soon revealed
the fact beyond doubt, of suicide. No
potent reason is as yet assigned for the
deed. He was young man of much
promise and highly respected and es-
teemed by all who knew him and if the
remark be applicable to any one that
he hath not an enemy it is even so in
his case.
The circumstances, SO far as known,
are these: That he repaired to his store
at the usual hour in the morning, made
some complaint to his wife of his head
feeling bad, but she thought nothing
more of it, made the usual arrangements
such as building fire, sweeping, &c, and
delivered package of goods, sold the
day previous, in person, nearly half a
mile distant. l.. W. Adams called in on
his way to the depot after the arrival of
the s o'clock train. Mr.. A. thinks it
must have been fifteen or twenty min
utes past eight; he noticed then that the
gun had been moved from its usual
place and he remarked, Have you
been saluting any one this morning p"
Was answered, no. Some other casual
remark passed and Mr.. A. left for home
the last note we have of his being
alive. About twenty minutes to nine a
lad on his way to school called and
found the room filled with smoke and
no appearance of any one within. He
soon gave the alarm. Mr.. John Weston
was the first to enter the room and STUN
bled upon the lifeless remains of Mr.. G..
which he. found to be on fire. 1t was
soon extinguished and the alarm spread
rapidly As the smoke cleared a little
it was ascertained that he was shot
through the heart, the charge of shot
passing through and coming out little
to the right of the back bone. 1t had
the appearance of his holding the muz-
zle close to his heart and pulling the
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near, much besmeared with blood. His
pocket book, containing 5000 or more,
was found by his side, but so burned that
it is thought that the bills cannot be re-
cognized. His watch was somewhat
burned. Further investigation showed,
as it was an old army gun, that he had
taken common cap and enlarged it by
means of knife and stick, and remain
der of box of caps found on his writing
desk. He made two entries on his day
book, previous, that morning, and follow
ing the last, written in larger hand,
Amen" His wife says that on Christ
mas day he told her that he should have
shot himself that night if the gun had
been loaded, but she thought he was
feeling better and took no further note
of it, as he was often prone to despond-
ency.
In this bereavement it falls heavily
upon his wife and little one, as also upon
his adopted father and mother, @. NJ.
Dorand and wife, who had looked for.
ward with great promise in him, for aid
and comfort in their declining years and
to host of relatives, friends and neigh
bors, who deeply sympathize with them
in their affection. b.