The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-20
o. B. PAULINT'S SUICIDE
wELL-kNOwy LOUNGE MANUFAcT-
URER SHOOTS HIMSELF.
Found Dead In n Chair by a Young
Observation-Disclosures from His
Wife.

Otto B. Paulini, of the firm of ENRICH,
Paulini & Co.. took his own life, MONDAY
night, by shooting himself through the
head with a revolver, at his home, No. 81
South Meridian street. The act is supposed
to have been committed about midnight,
but did not become known until yesterday
morning, when Mr.. Paulini was found dead
in his chair by his daughter.
Mr.. Paulini lived with his two daughters,
Freda and Olga, having been divorced from
his wife several years ago. Monday evening
he came home as usual and spent the even
ing in the company of his daughters, APP
parently in the best of spirits. He sat in
the back parlor reading almost the entire
evening and was still there when his daugh-
tiers babe him good night and retired.
Their room is directly above the one where
Mr.. Paulini was sitting. and about midnight
the girls were awakened by a sharp SOUND
which they attributed to a chair falling
down, one of them remarking that perhaps
their father had fallen over one in going 10
bed. Nothing more was thought of the noise
and no one outside the house heard any
thing unusual during the night. About z
o'clock yesterday morning, Freda, the young
err daughter, aged seventeen, arose and went
down stairs. She noticed that the gas was
still burning in the back parlor and went
10 the door 10 ascertain kIG lCdcOI W ~,
when she was Mortified to see her father
still sitting in the chair where she had left
him the night before, but In his right hah ma
blood was still oozing from a wound In the
right temple where the bullet had been sent
The frightened girl ran back to her sister
and tried to explain what had happened.
The older sister was informed ana potn
girls then ran next door to the home OF DIR.
r. E. Culver, and that gentleman hurried
to the place, but quickly saw that Mr..
Paulini was past the aid OF a physician.
Word was Immediately sent to Coroner
Castor, who arrived in a short time. He
had the body removed from the chair and
the dead mans head was examined. There
was a hole in the temple about an inch In
had been placed close to the head when the
fatal shot was fired, which, perhaps, ac-
counts for the muffied report. Ihls IS SUP.
young ladies about midnight. The ball passed
entirely through the head, SCATTERING the
Gus death. The body had scarcely moved
from it's position after the trigger of the
revolver had been pulled.
note, written in German, fon one side OF a
piece OF note paper. The note was in a mel
ancholy strain and showed that the man
had been meditating suicide for some time.
In 1t he said: q am sorry to have to leave
be better off if he had never been born, and
l am sure that 1 would be better off dead"
In his pockets were found a few costly
AiithClo IL a cihi6i liiOoL VI hOAS
Mr.. Paulini was a half owner OF the
lounge factory of Emerich, Paulini & Co.,
on West street, and he is said to have been
worrying recently over the poor business
prospects. Mr.. Paulini was in comfortable
circumstances, however. His friends say
that he has never been quite himself since
his divorce from his wife, and that at times
he became exceedingly melancholy. Another
reason assigned as a motive for the deed
was that he has been suffering from the
grip lately and has never entirely recovered
from it's effects.
The daughters were Frustrated from the
shock accompanying their fathers sudden
death and were taken to DR.. Culver's house
where they were not permitted to see any
one. Later in the day they were removed
to No. 322 College avenue, the home OF Emil
Martin, president of the Indianapolis
Chemical Company. who is a brother-in-law
of the dead man. Otto p, Paulini was born
in Dantzic, Prussia, in 1912. IN 1867 he came
to America, spending one year in New York,
then coming West. he located In Indianapo-
lis. He was employed by the Western Furni-
ture Company until he went into business
for himself. He was a Member of no secret
societies, but was an earnest worker in the
Maennerchor Society, he was married in
1872, but was divorced in 1882, his divorced
wife now living at Terre. Haute. The two
daughters with whom he lived are his only
surviving children