Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-06
TRIED HARD TO KILL HIMSELF.
Louis Smith Attempts Suicide Because His
Wife Left Him.


Louis Smith Attempts Suicide Because His
Wife Left Him.
Louis Smith, carpenter, living at 15
Long alley, Allegheny, shot himself with
suicidal intent yesterday afternoon. He
used small revolver of % caliber and
placed two balls in his body, one in the
breast and one in the back of the
head. The latter fattened against his
skull, but the former penetrated his
left lung and may prove fatal.
Not five minutes after the shooting Lieu
tenant Thornton was notified, and going to
the house found Smith in the attic lying
upon the floor and the revolver still in his
hand. He had removed his coat and vest
and thrown open his shirt, exposing the
wound in the breast Two chambers of the
revolver being empty, the Lieutenant ex-
amined him and found the second wound.
He told the officer that he shot to kill him
self and he believed he would die.
The Lieutenant called the patrol wagon
and had him taken to the Allegheny Gen
eral Hospital There the ball in his head
was extracted, but that in his lung could
not be. His chance for recovery is very
slim one. Smith is 26 years of age and
married. He has not been living with his
wife for some time on account of his dissi-
patton, ii is said. He has been drinking
for some weeks, and yesterday met his wife
on the street and asked her to renew their
marital relations, but she refused. He then
returned to the house of his sister, Mrs,
Salzer, where the shooting took place and
where he has been living, and shortly after
shot himself, as stated. His wife lives on
Howard street.
A NfI;pan Church struck nv I,i1htpinV.
The Reformed Presbyterian Church, at
the corner of North Highland avenue and
Harvard street, East End, was struck by
lightning about o'clock last evening. The
lightning struck the corner of the roof in
front, tearing off some states and a piece of
the cornice. The current then evidently
passed to the electric light wire, which is
close to the roof of the church on Harvard
street, and was carried Off The damage
done was slight The church is the one of
which the Rev. o. r. Milligan is pastor,
who recently left the Reformed Presbyterian
fold for the United Presbyterian.
Snap Shots at City News
EDWARD BYRNEs, % years old, wandered in
to the Allegheny police station yesterday
and asked to be cared for, as he was sick
and weary. He was sent to the General
the State of Indiana, and that his parents
ItreG at Providence, r. l. He Is suffering
severely with malaria.
THE Allegheny County School Directors
Association will meet in room Is of the
county building Wednesday. Tho sessions
VIII be held at $50 A. M. and I'm. During
the day the election for officers will take
place, and County Superintendent Hamil-
toms report will be submitted.
HUMANE AGENT BERRYMAN was called to
Bedford avenue and Shelby street yesterday
afternoon to kill an old mule which, it is
said, had been left to die on the streets by a
negro, John James.
A POOR, hard-working man named Pratt
ley, living in the rear OF Oakland Terrace,
has within the past few weeks had either
stolen or poisoned no less than 56 chickens.
DIR. GEORGE PARKE, a well-known West
county physician, is in jail. He is
insane, and was picked up on Sixteenth
street.
CHARLES ANDERSON, who was injured by
falling metal at the Edgar Thomson works
Friday night, died yesterday morning.
A CHECKER tournament will take place at
the Eureka club rooms, on South Twelfth
street, to o-morrow evening.
ELMER METZ, the 5-year-old boy who fell
into q kettle Of catsup on Thursday, died
yesterday.