The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-10
BULLET ended HIS life
Death Of Detective A. ScanlOn, at
His Home on Anthony Street.
MISSILE ENTERED HIS BRAIN
lie Lived for Ono and Onc.lIalf Hours
After the Fatal Shot Was Fired.
Causes That Led to tho Act
of Self. destruction.

Detective Anthony Scanlon, WHO
was a person of extended acquaintance
in this city and other cities of the state,
died Saturday afternoon by the agency
of a S2-calibre revolver handled by him
] self The rash deed was committed at
| 1.3O in his bedroom at his fathers
house, No. 1OS Anthony street, In the
Sixteenth ward. The bullet entered the
right temple and lodged in the brain;
the wound was jagged and from 1t Is
sued large quantity of blood, after
which the brain began to ooze slowly
out
The unfortunate man did not die In
stantly, he fingered an hour and q half,
but had not returned at any moment
in the interim to consciousness. Dr.
John O'Malley was called and he OBJ
served that the wound was fatal. Rev.
j. A. McHugh, of the cathedral, arrived
hastily in cab and administered con-
ditional absolution and extreme unc-
ton. At o'clock Scanlon expired.
Coroner j. A. Kelley decided not to hold
an inquest.
The deceased left no written state
ments assigning the cause that i'm
PEELED him to helf-destruction but his
mother says he was greatly depressed
and melancholic over certain attacks
made upon him in the Standard.
lie Was In Good Spirits.
Scanlon had been around town Satur-
day morning and appeared to be in
good spirits. He went home at noon
and told his mother that Che Standard
had his photograph in its issue then on
the streets and accompanying the pic
ture was a notice that meant to reflect
on his character. His sister, Mrs.
George Monaghan, was Also present
and advised that no attention ought to
be paid to the matter.
He ate hearty dinner, after which
he went upstairs to his bedroom, but
before he went he told his mother that
he would be better off out of this world.
Fifteen minutes later a shot wds
heard followed by a heavy fall, and
rushing to his room they found him
lying supne on the floor at the side of
the bed. The blood poured from the
bullet hole in the right temple.
When DR.. O'Malley arrived he band
from staining the room, which had al
ready been much bespattered by the
red fluid. He breathed heavily until
the last.
Dunn Case Settled.
Scanlon's recent trouble with Alex
Dunn, jr., had been amicably arranged
on Wednesday so that worriment over
that episode could 2ot have induced the
deed. Other troubles, the attacks of
the Standard, superadded by ill-health,
are placed as responsible.
On April Mr. Dunn, for hats and
gents furnishings purchased by the
deceased, called with a bill of $50 to
collect. There was a dispute Of 30
cents between them and 1t became so
animated that couple of shots were
fired by Scanlon. Arrest followed and
the recent grand jury indicted him for
the act. Last week the matter was set
tied and Mr.. Dunn agreed not to prose-
cute.
Sketch of the Deceased.
Scanlon was 3S years Of age and con-
Quoted detective agency in this city,
with an office over Phelps drug store.
He was appointed United States mar
shall for this district three years ago.
He was not married.
Years ago he was employed as clerk
in the prothonotary's office in Luzerne
county. afterward becoming mail car
rler under the late D. w. Connolly. then
postmaster of Scranton. Leaving the
mail force he became special officer
attached to Mayor Beamish's court,
and when he retired from that position
was a detective with license from
the court. He continued in that busi-
ness until his death, Anthony Scan
lon, night baggage-master at the Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western de-
pot, is his father.