The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-11-07
A Young Attorney Recently from Hell
ena. Without Apparent Cause.
Suicides at the Park.
Found Dead in His Room with a
CHASTITY Bullet Hole Just Be-
low the Heart.

N'N'hiS' VIM Was ne. dSkcu IL
startled OF curious public. When did it
happen: Why did he do so: And all
Of these questions save one was easily
answered.
On Friday last Frederick S. Fish
registered at the Park from Helena. To
friends in the city he was known as a
young attorney of most excellent habits,
prosperous in business and well fixed in
the good things of the world. His in
tentiOn on his arrival was to settle in the
city with which he was more than
pleased. He seemed to be feeling cheer
full and not in the least d~ownhearted.
Business arrangements were already in
course of completion. On Monday even
ing for the first time he appeared just a
trife downhearted saying that he was
nervous and feared that a general break
ing down would compel him to take a
long vacation.
He retired Monday night and rose
again Tuesday morning. From this
time no one seems to remember anything
regarding him. The chambermaid saw
him 60 into his room at about nine in
the morning after which he was never
seen alive. Business went on about the
hotel and poor Fish was forgotten for
the time. Perfect stiffness reigned in
his room. He had an engagement to
,,,naf an f,nr1 -, H. ,Au~.. I..1 r.
course he failed to keep. Between three
and four this gentleman came to the
hotel. He vent to the room and
knocked but no answer came.
And then curiosity mingled with
alarm became rife at his long silence.
The door was locked with the key in.
side. Charles Mix, the porter, climbed
around the roof and entered a window.
And then came the solution to his long
silence. The man vas dead.
DR.. Sweat was called and at once re-
sponded, but Frederick Fish was gone
beyond all hope. BY this time it was
about > o'clock.
About 6 o'clock the coroner, DR.. Ladd,
arrived and the chamber of death was
again entered. In the bed with the
covers drawn tightly up to his chin lay
all that was mortal of the young attor-
ney. The face already bore the pallor of
death and looked yet more pale behind
a blonde mustache. The cover were
turned down and the body
found to be clothed in under
wear and shirt, outer garments
having been removed. The right hand
crossed over the breast was rigid and the
left lay extended upward by the left side.
Below this hand, muzzle pointing up
ward, was the instrument of death, a
double-actlon Smith ~ Wesson, No. IS.
But n chamber was empty. The
wound was on the left side, a little below
the heart, to reach which it took Il slant
ing course upward. He had raised his
linen. held and fired the revolver with
his left hand and the heavy bedclothing
had siiiled the report SO that no noise
was heard.
From his friends in the city it was
learned that Frederick S. Fish had been
in Montana about five years. His bro
ther Frank Fish was killed in a railroad
accident on the Northern Pacific at Gal
latin City over five years e and it was
to settle up this estate that Frederick
first came out. The estate was quite a
large one and placed the young gentle
man in comfortable circumstances. Its
settlement occupied him about two years
after which he practiced law in Helena
until quite recently. He was a graduate
of the Ann Harbor law school and is
said to have originally came from Gin
c%innati. His sister, Mrs. $. E. Spalding
nee Mrs. ID. Curtis resides in Helena.
In appearance he is of somewhat
slender build and apparently about five
feet six or seven. His face is not with.
out many traces of manly beauty, but
looks rather that Of a calm, cool man
than of a hot, passionate one. Friends
say that he is twenty-seven or twenty
eight years old. His habits we're said to
be excellent, He was strictly temperate
and in no way inclined to the sporting
side of life.
On the body was found a gold watch
and chain, from which hung suspended
a Masonic emblem, and in his pocket
about $40 in money. Neither letter nor
possible explanation could be found for
his dreadful act.
Why he did it is therefore for the
present unsolved in secrecy. Young
well fixed, no entangling affairs so far as
known, good habits and presumably a
clear conscience, the only solution
is insanity. For himself he has solved
the final mystery, but he leaves to Others
one deeper and far darker.
A. o.. L.. W.
Whereas, 1t has pleased the Supreme
Ruler of the universe to remove from
earth, by death. the devoted wife and
bosom companion of our esteemed broth.
or p. M. W., Chas. Wcgncr, therefor" bt
it
RrSoIrcd. That we as a lodge take this
manner of expressing our sincere sym
pathy and deepest regrets for our broth
er in his sad bereavement.
ResOlred, That a cop of these resolu
tons be spread upon the minutes Of the
lodge, also a copy furnished to each OF oul
daily papers for publication: also a copy
furnished to our brother and his family
G.. w. MooRHoUS,
j. X. CLARK,
A. c. Lux,
Committee.