The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-28
WAS TIRED OF LIVING
\. DrWOlf Shoots Himself
Through the Head iestcr-
day at Noon.
Tragedy Occurs w the W. q
.joucs Ranch About Three
Miles From Town.

y. DeWuif committed suicide by
bo,inp himself through the head a few
hutes before noon yesterday at the
O. Jones ranch about four miles up
4 on the other side of the Missouri
|er, The Information was brought to
i city by a ranchman named Arm
Ipng with whom DeWolf was stopping,
who cultivates about ten acres OF
ranch.
Armstrong told Coroner Ladd that he
Is talking with DeWolf in the loft .!
barn a short time before the tragedy.
Wolf said a man was better off dead
I'm alive or something to that effect,
shortly afterward went to the house.
noon Armstrong went to the house
dinner. and as soon AS he entered the
or SAW the following letter on the
BILE:
Mr.. Armstrong: Please mailthese let
Is, and you will please write the doc,
what has happened and see that all
E requests | make are carried out.
fGood bye. j. \. DEN"'F'
"Look in your room.
Armstrong Immediately looked into
q room AS directed and to his horror
scoyered DeWolf stretched out on the
d with his face covered with blood. "A
cond glance sutiiced to show that the
In was dead and without stopping to
Eestipatc further, Armstrong jumped
a horse and came to this city and no
led the coroner.
oDr. Ladd and County Auditor r.. A.
npwald drove out to the ranch, arrly-
. there shortly after 3 o'clock, Every,
inp tended to show that the act had
en- carefully planned.
kJt appears that after leaving Arm
ronp in the barn DeWolf went to the
kuse and wrote letters to his wife, Mrs
ssie DeWolf, and his father in-law
T.. w. Hoyt of Onando. Deer Lodge
nnty. also the letter printed above ano
othcr letter the contents of which he
uucsted should not be published. h'
70 wrote several notes, which were
Ind pinned on the walls Of tho house
several places. reading:
I'll anything happens to me notliy III
|oyt.'
AFTER completing his corresponding
4 evidently went to Mr.. Armstrong
Broom and carefully removed all tn.
= .clothcs anC. mattress from the bed
n then laid down on the wire sprini
I'D. placing the muzzlo of Il :}2-caiibc
4 1arlan revolver in his mouth, sent
llet into his brain. The bullet range
bward and backward and lodged in tn
hill. He evidently held the rcvolve
th both hands when he fired the fata
ot, as both HANDS were powder-burnet
hen found. however. the right han
III fallen across the body. while the le,
nj still clutchcd the handle OF tn
apon. After examining the boa
roner Ladd decided that an inqucs
unnecessary and Auditor Ringwal
Blk charge of the body for the county
FDeWolf was II years 9 months and
Tvs old and has a father living in Blu
Birth City. MINI. Auditor langwal
! tl~egraphed to the mayor OF that tow
Z king him to break the vows to til
lther of the dead man. From paper
Sund on his person it appears nat
rived in Company X. First regimen
lisconsin, from April III. 1861, to Augui
~, 1861. and was present at the battle
3&3thlling Waters. July ID OF the saa
}Sear. lie was a man Of education an
5}|Sfnement. as could be seen from Il
X1Dttcrs he wrote. Dependency was u
W bubtedly the cause of his rash act.
3{5 said that he recently separated fro
Us wife and that troubled him. I
s5oamG to Mr.. Armstrong; place about
Seek ago. having known him IN mo-
prosperous times. If word If not +
viewed soon from some of his rc,ltivcs
{fiends the body will be buried at II
{xpense of the county. In ole n
q kDttcrs DeWoif referred to some me !
sonrancc which he desired his wife
s5Avc bat did not say in what compai
ING life was insured.
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