The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-27
LIFE HAS NO CHARMS.
A Rejected Lover Seeks Con-
ISOLATION in Death.
BUT HE IS LIKELY TO RECOVER.
When His Sweetheart Says "NO," He
Sends . Bullet Towards His Heart
He weeps and Wants to Die.

Gution Paulson attempted suicide yesterday
morning about 10 o'clock, in the garrett of a
small house on Victoria, near Harrison street.
by shooting himself in the breast with A.
caliber revolver He said the cause was the de-
sertion of his sweetheart Gutjon Paulson is q
man about % years old, while Mrs. Dorathy
Johnson, with whom he was enamored, is per-
son several years his senior. They both live in
the vicinity OF Harrison street, in North Seattle
on the cliff overlooking the bay.
Three months ago Paulson fell In love with
Mrs. johnson, and desired to marry her. His
wooing went along smoothly until yesterday
morning about 10 o'clock, when he was seen to
come from Mrs. Johnsons house, looking much
disheartene1, and sit down in the yard. He
was joined by a friend, who tried to console
him, but the only reply given by the despond-
ent lover was q sorrowful shake of the head.
Paulson soon arose and went to his room in the
garnet of one-and-a-half-story house situated
on the edge of q ravine which runs down to
the beach.
Five minutes later Mrs Christie Johnson. who
occupies the ground floor of the house, heard a
sharp report and felt the house jar if some
heavy body had fallen to the floor above. F. II.
Goodman who was at the house, ran up stairs
and found Paulson stretched upon his back, ap-
parently lifeless. revolver lay upon the bed,
near his right hand, where it had fallen.
The patrol wagon called, the would-be
to Grace hospital. On the way to the hospital
he cried like child, and lamented that he was
not dead. When Dr. Sparkling examined him,
he found that the bullet had entered the ster
mum about two inches above the top OF the
heart, and in its passage had missed both lobes
of the lungs and had lodged in the vicinity of
the spine. Unless complications should set in
there is no immediate danger from the wound.
During the examination Paulson ke pit sobbing
and in reply to Dr. Sparkling, who asked him
what was the matter, he said that his girl had
gone back on him and he wanted to die. Super
intendent Tremaine endeavored to reason with
Pauson, but found it impossible to stop the flow
of tears. About O'Clock, however, he became
little calmer and told the story OF how he had
fallen in love with Mrs. johnson three months
ago and wanted to marry her. but she had
n Thrown him over" for man named Mort Bor-
stein, who was coming to Seattle in a short time.
Hewould not believe that he was going to re-
cover, and seemed determined to die.
Mrs. johnson, the woman who has SO COM
ple.ely won the affections of Paulson, lives in
small one-story house about block from where
the shooting occurred. She was very much op-
posed to saying anything about her relations
with Paulsor, but volunteered the information
that he did not shoot himself in her house.
'.Were you engaged to MIN and did you re-
ject him On account of any particular OBJ
jections?" was asked.
81 am the only one who knows anything
about that, and intend to keep it to myself"
Mrs. Johnson, like her unhappy lover, is an
Icelander, and is rather tiactive. She is
blonde, has light blue eyes and good figure. She
has lived in the neighborhood two years and
bears a good reputation She is Industrious
and, reportf are true, has 5000 worth OF prop