The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-12-11
ANOTHER SUICIDE.
Arthur Wallace Ends His Lie
by Blowing Out His Brains
With a Shotgun.

by Blowing Out E1lS Drains st
With a Shotgun.
For the third time within the r.
past year, Corvallis has Deen Re: ::
by the tragic death OF one II n
of her C tizens. In each instance c
a airearm did the awful work, and
in each instance death resulted al c
most instantaneouSly. The latest n
occurrence OF lis kind took place
Friday night about IL O'Clock ana
the person to suffer the ienany
rnr his rashness was Arthur Wal !
l,re. Il bachelor, who has followed :
the carpenter trade i'll and around
Corvallis ior several years past.
Wallace came TO Oregon from 9,
the. sou,l, some ,llirty-three years
,r, and resid. Il in Benton county
ever since. Although given III
times ,oexcessive drinking, he Sas
industrious and bore good repu-
Ita,ion Several years ago he own
e,l - farm near Monroe, which he
lost through foreclosure proceed
mos. Since losing the iarii he
often threatened to kill The parties
TO the foreclosure aud then emu
his own lie. hut otherwise he Was
very peaceable and his threats
were generally regarded us oeihg
due largely TO the influence ol
liounr. He maintained that uhaae
advantage was taken OF his cir
tcpmstances in for"closinS the
mortgage Oh his farm and since
t losing it, WAS more or less despon-
v dent. aud often rallied against ia'e
/ as helm. to blame Tor all his mis-
J, fortunes.
) During the past few months he
v had been out oil employment pof-
il lions OF the time and during these
C nerioos. became very despondent
l. and frequently spoke OF ending
O his life. In TACT he had so repeat
edlv threatened his Lille, that lluie
notice was taken OF his remark
"a Friday evening that Il will furnish
r = Job for the coroner in the morn
m inrn He spent the evening al
er ..The Resort" in i, friendly game
st of cards, and if anything, seemed
e, in better spirits than usual. Alter
IL going home, he returned to the sa
;e. Ioons between IL and II o'clock
ir. and gave his watch 10 Jesse whey
ed requesting him to turn 1t over ''
lat his (Wailace's) brother-in-law,
Mr.. Anderson, who lives III Lill
r county. Becoming somewiia
~. M alarmed at Wallace's strange ac
~, tions. MIR. Wiley hunted up TN
~ - ni.h,watchman, Geo Emefict
60 60 and asked him to occasionally ca
re ,t Wallace's room during The nlgf
ne and see that he was all right. In
irm mf occurred about IL O'Clock, and
r.. G they walked down the street u
lof ward the Vincent Hotel, whel
i; Wallace roomed. they heard
'"e INC lnoise that sounded very much III
''". M the report OF gun and suspectf
NV that their fears were not altoge'n
eroundless. Fastening to the II
ears tel. they awoke the Williams b.
Il of who was asleep iii the Office, al
heir dispatched him upstairs TO ascerta
hat whether or not Wallace was Ill J
Joy. room. A moment later the b
heir came running back, nearly scar
lg a OUT of his wits and told them VI
e it thew already realized--that W
ung lace was dead. He had gone
are his room, seated himself in a en-
and and with a shot gun, had dello
the ately blown out his brains. =
} ex- Saturday morning Acting Y
oner Carlile held all inquest, IA
-. after the examination of seve
o;.' nv witnesses, the jury returned
40 following verdict:
|; ';nad @ We, the jury in the about nan
,neu ~ ~ coroners inquest, hereby render
~ ,as ~ verdict herein. We find his ma
i"J., ~, was Arthur Wallace. He has D
Dnt In a resident of Corvallis for SO
;, Nv Nv wears past. He came to his de
= ,r;na M in Corvallis, Ore son, on Decen
9 nI7 5th. 1896, at about twelve oci
IN neho Az by reason of gunshot wound
80 10 n fiicted by his own hands, with
'SS,ya sasta own shotgun. Dated at Corva
ill be Oresoh' De'enoo.
pros I. MAsoN,
j. w. VINEYARD,
:, 3D.. S. N. LILLY,
ance J. III. ALBRIGHT,
ne VI J. G. WE'LL,
ion Of - IouN ARMsrRoN
is, the .o,,,,t.hle re
,,a;mg the burial took place after
n;sht' Saturday night. During the
70 will brother of the deceased arl
No ON. from Albany and took chars
medy the remains, but made no
merry rangements for funeral ser,
at 10 and though but eighteen
after had elapsed after the iaiai
!, cos was fired, the body was tak'
, The the Odd Fellows cemetery
nod bv buried. The corpse was not
WON ed nor redressed. 1t was s.
nailed up in plain box
showed into the ground. Hs
relatives not taken charge {
;u remains, the citizens of 20
l.n ,..na would have seen that al
was mortal of poor old