St. Paul daily globe., 1895-07-04
He HAD FAMILY TROUBLE,
AND WAS. DRINKING HEAVILY,
n FOR SOME DAYS v..
/. ~: E..t-.a PAST. Itfo1
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were His Last Words to His Little
Son Just Before He Fired
the Fatal Shot.


Martin Bartos, harness maker re-
siding at 412 Superior street, to his
young son last evening about 7:15.
The son turned away, and instantly
heard pistol shot The father had
shot himself. through the right tenn
pie. An hour and half later he was
|. dead: Until ten minutes before his
death he received no surgical atten-
/ dance. The distracted family de-
/ pended upon the. police. .>'a-t'
|; Officer J. F: Davis, who lives near
by, was beside the injured man five
minutes after the shot was fired.
The officer at once informed the
central police station. Returning a
few moments later, Davis thought
that Bartos was dying, and again
telephoned the station to notify the
| coroner. Thus, no surgeon appeared
until, at S:35, an hour and twenty
minutes after the suicidal act, a
neighbor succeeded in bringing DR..
NJ. T. Arslanides from the city hos
pital
The doctor saw that Bartos was
about to die, and stated that his life
| could have been prolonged by
! prompt treatment, but that the
wound would doubtless have proven
| fatal, nevertheless, within a few
! hours In this view Coroner Whit
| comb agreed. later
| While awaiting the arrival of the
surgeon, the slowly gasping suicide
| lay where he had fallen, against,
! the legs of a rough couch and upon
| the floor of the kitchen of his hum
BILE home. He was in his shirt
sleeves. His feet were without shoes.
By his side lay his corncob pipe and
his revolver-a 38-caliber American,
| bulldog with four chambers still
| loaded. His left arm was crowded!
| against the couch. His right lay
stretched out in a vast pool of slowly
! clotting blood that extended from his
CORY, DRIPPING HEAD
almost to his feet. The ball had en-:
tered in the right temple above and
in front of the ear. The adjacent
skin was blackened by powder. The
violence of the shock to the internal
structure of the skull had produced
a grewsome hemorrhage of the right
eye, which turned slowly black and
protruded out upon the cheek. Even
the cheek itself began to swell, and
soon the whole face was distorted
and of a livid gray. 80
! The man, was but forty years old
and naturally rather handsome, but
the vivid red blood throbbed forth
by the severed temporal artery had
gathered in the closely cropped brown
hair, and, trickling down the face,
| past the carefully twisted NOUS
tache, had turned countenance of
manly vigor into an object for
frightful dreams. Meanwhile the
pool of blood widened upon the floor,
the fingers of the right hand nervous
ly scratched at the bloody boards,
an occasional rattle shook the broad
chest; while the sobs of the afflicted
children in the next room were heard
at intervals between the groans and
| Shrieks of the frantic wife, the sub
dued buzz of the pushing, curious
crowd without the windows, and the
MUM VI Tic SlleiIo IiibI SoaIAlSiSt
around the warm blood and the dim,
smoking lamp.
For three or four days Bartos had
been drinking heavily, although he
was not an Incorporate man by habit
He had six children, ranging from Il
girl of three to another daughter of
seventeen, and including two sons. The
! eldest daughter had given her father
irlCr
a marriage which did not meet his
entire approval. Whenever Bartos
| came home, Of late, he
QUARRELED WITH HIS WIFE
about this and other domestic matters.
Since last Saturday he constantly
threatened to destroy himself. With
that end he purchased last week the
revolver with which he redeemed his
threats.
Bartos was harnessmaker, and fore
man of the collar making department
of Scheffer & Rossum, 174-17S East
Fourth street. He had continued work
ing up to o'clock yesterday. By his
constant industry he had long since
been able to purchase the one-story
residence where he died, and the lot
that it occupies. His health had been
excellent. No reason appears for his
desperation other than his heavy
drinking and his domestic discomfort.
All were about when he shot himself
except theI eldest of his two sons, John,
aged sixteen.
When Coroner Whitcomb arrived he
decided t. ;.old no inquest. The cause of
death was self-evident. At the re-
quest Of relatives, he ordered the re-
mains tal1n to Fred Dohm's undertak-
ing establishment at Seven Corners.
Bartos had resided in ST. Paul for the
past twenty years. He was a member
Of the c. S. P. s., the Bohemian SiAvon-
ian Mutual Aid society. He was him.
self a Czech.