The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-05-17
Mr.. A. G. BAUER SUICIDES
LEFT A NOTE GIVING DIREC
TIONS ABOUT HIS BURIAL.
WILL REST BY THE SIDE OF HIS WIFE
Supposed that the Deed Was Committed in a
Fit of Temporary lnsanity--Re Was
an Architect of Much
Ability.


'Rauer has killed himself.' This
news convulsed the town early yesterday
morning like an electric shock. 1t was
about 9 o'clock in the morning that Mr..
VIII Linehan went up to Bauer's apart
ments over his store, in the Holleman
building. to see how the latter was get
ting on.
Bauer has been drinking quite heavily
for about two weeks, and rs he had not
been seen for two or three days, Line
ham had become uneasy about hin
1t was not unusual to find Baue ~ door
locked. but when he could gai,u "a re
SponSe to his vigorous knocks the
door, or get any answer to his r-.An, he
became thoroughly alarmed and decided
to make an entrance by the window of
the room which opens towards the west,
on the yard in the rear of the building,
by means of IL ladder With the assist
ance of Pink Ray. John Cross and Elvin
Fleming, n ladder was placed at the
rear window and Linehan climbed
through into the working room of the
pa ''ilS w i' I'i iiNIN' "hANh
separates the work-room from the sleep
ing room. Linehan beheld a CHASTITY
sight. There in his bed, half covered
with the tumbled bedding. robed in his
Hnderclothes and a laundried shirt, the
white sheet and pillow-cases soaked and
hesIattercd with blood, lay the unfor
tunate man. He was stone dead. The
cold body already Stiffened with the
riGor morris showed that the fatal deed
had long been perpetrated. probably,
sometime during the afternoon before or
early that night. The head was slightly
turned to the left. and in the right tenn
pie CAPPED the wound of Il pistol ball,
around which the dark clotted blood was
~conGcalcd, discoloring the face and Civ
ing Il g%roteSqnc, sinister expression to
the face of the dead, upon which the
t1lCkerlng flame of an oil lamp threw IL
yellow gruesome light, while through the
half darkened windows the bright sun
light cast Il gray pail.
The left arm lay bent across the
breast, and in the bend of the elbow lay
the pistol with which the desperate
deed was committed. 1t was of cheap
American make, 30 calibre. Five of the
chambers were loaded. while the sixth
was smutted and blackened with the
faithful discharge. Near the left elbow
lay a small hand mirror, which the de-
ceased had evidently used for q sure and
accurate aim. On the right side of the
bed lay a copy of Shakespeare, which
the deceased had evidently been reading
shortly before he took his life.
Linehan Immediately notified Chief of
Police Norwood. DR.. Ellis, the coroner,
was also summoned, but he deemed an
inquest unnecessary, as the cause of
death was perfectly apparent. a small
leather memorandum book was found
on a able i'll the room in which was con
tanned the following, in the handwriting
Of The deceased:
Il am just now in sound mind, and
before | am otherwise, | wish to say
that if /, by violence to myself should
die, | wish to be buried by the side of
my wife, in Raleigh, Y. c., where l have
so long ~sojourned and among the South
ern people | have liked so WE'LL
Then follows in with a different and
harder pencil thus:
Some friends of mine seem to bc
discOntented that | did not wait and get
10000 or 500, 900 out OF the Southern
Railroad. | wish to tell them hat | was
content with M compromise. anything
to the contrary. Notwithstanding. | was
not specializing to make Il financial hit"
1t will be remembered that about two
years ago Baue was struck by Il train
while crossing the tracks near the
depot in Durham. in company with Mr..
Chas. I'll. Morton, and both We're serious
~ injured. Bauer'S mind was seriously
affected by the injury, and for some
months thereafter he was in the insane
asylum here. Norton afterwards recov-
cred Judgment against the Southern Rail
road for $4,000.
1t was not long after this accident
that Bauer lost his wife-a Miss Rachael
Blythe-the mother of the two children
who survive him. One Il girl about 4
years of age. who is living with Bauer's
sister, in Bellaire, Ohio; the other Il boy
about ? years Of age, who is with his
mothers people in Cherokee. in this
State.
Bauer often complained of pains in his
head. and it is generally thought that
he took his own life in Il period of tenn
pOrary insanity. due to the railway acct
dent. His note confirms this theory.
About the middle of the morning,
Squire Maroon, the public administra-
Tor, qualified as such and took possession
of the effects of the deceased. Nothing
but a few matches and his latch key was
found in his clothes, and an enquiry at
the banks did not discover any deposit to
his credit. He at one time had kept a
deposit at the National Bank of Raleigh.
but it was very unusual for him to pay
by check.
He was last seen alone by the negro
%janitOr, Jerry Petty, who took him Il
bowl Of soup Wednesday morning. .Jer-
ry said that it was the only thing
Bauer had eaten since Monday night.
Bauer'S full name is Adolphus Gusta-
vuS Bauer. He is the well known ar
chitect of this city. and the buildings he
mas designed, ornament the cities
throughout the State. He was of Ger
man parentage. about SO years Of age,
blond. > feet , inches in height, weighing
about 1871 pounds. He graduated at
bethany college, West Virginia. in June,
1879. and afterwards studied portrait