The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-14
HE SENT A BULLET
THROUGH HIS BRAIN
George Fassbold Fouud Dead 10 Ills
Bed Yesterday.
DAUGHTERS HORRIBLE DISCOVERY
When She Went to Call Her Father
She Found Him Dying in Bed with
Blood Flowing from Two Holes in
His Head--No sufficient Cause Can
BE Assigned for the Act--was a
Prominent South Side Citizen.

George Fasshold, the we'll known
hotelkeeper, of 51S Pittston avenue, died
Yesterday morning to all appearances
by his own hand.
He was found in his bed room at II
o'clock with a bullet hole in his head
and a 3s-callbre revolver lying beside
him. He lived only few minutes
after being found.
According to his usual custom he
came down stairs about 8 o'clock and
after taking little lunch returned
again to bed to make up for being up
late the previous night.
Mrs. Fasshold, assisted by one of the
neiShbora. Mrs. Hartman, was doing
the washing. About IL o'clock she sent
for her daughter Lena, who was clean
ing up the harroom and told her she
would have to assis: III the washing
as 1t was unusually large and 1t was
desired to finish by noon. She said
"all right" and called her father from
the foot Of the stairs to come down
and look after the hotel.
She received no answer from him,
but supposirg he would be down in due
time went out to the rear of the house
to help her mother.
About half an hour later when the
father had not yet come down, Mrs.
Fasshold sold her daughter she had
better call him again.
RECEIVED NO ANSWER.
The girl ran up stairs and rapping
at her fathers door shouted for him to
get up. When no answer came back
she pushed open the door and looked
in.
To her horror she saw blood oozing
from her fathers mouth and heard
him gaspinE and emitting from his
throat a gurgling sound as if choking.
Rushing down stairs she summoned
her mother crying out father has a
hemorrhage."
When Mrs. Fasshold and the neigh
bors reached the room he was breath
ing his last and inside of five minutes
after being discovered he was dead
Dr. Haggerty was sent for at once
but death had come before his arri-
val.
When found, the unfortunate man
was lying on his back, his eyes fixed
| on the ceiling.
Blood was flowing from two holes
| in his head, one at the top of the right
ear. the other just above the left
| temple, showing where the bullet enter
ed and came out. He was also bleeding
| from the mouth and nose.
The bullet, after passing through the
head, travelled the width of the bed
and cropped to the floor, where it was
| found some time after
At his side, lying within few inches
| of his clutched hand, in the bed, was
| a 32-calibre revolver, with one empty
shell and four loaded ones.
MOTIVE NOT APPARENT.
What prompted Fasshold to his rash
| act no one can even imagine.
Even his most intimate friends are
at loss, they say, to account for it
lie was in good health, and no family
troubles, and what seems strange in
the light of his deed of yesterday, he
has only recently gotten on his feet
| financially after a hard struggle OF
seven or eight years.
He was doing a nice business, and
all in all would seem to be the last
man who would even contemplate such
| ar act.
He was 43 years of age. and leaves
a wife and eight children.
| He was member of Comet Lodge
| Knights of Pythias, Roaring Brook
| Conclave Of Heptasophs, Scranton
Saengerrunde, Century Hose company
GnS the Firemen's Relief association
Coroner Longstreet empanelled a
| j,ny consisting of Christian Storr. A
F. Schneider. Harry Klauminzer
Henry Crockenberg, Richard Heffen,
niger and Jacob Rosar. who, after re.
viewing the remains, adjourned to meet
| Friday night to find verdict