The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-13
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--He Was
an Architect of Much
Ability.

news convulsed the town early yesterday
morning like an electric shock. 1t was
about 8 o'clock in the morning that Mr..
| Will Linehan went up to Bauer's apart
ments over his store. i'm the Holleman
building, to see how the latter was get
| ting on.
Bauer has been drinking quite heavily
| for about two weeks. and as he had not
| been seen for two or three days, Line
! ham had become uneasy about him.
| 1t was not unusual to find Baue"G door
! locked, but when he could gaiM W re-
! Spouse to his vigorous knocks ~, the
door, or get any answer to his GAkAg he
became thoroughly alarmed and decided
| 10 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 ladder. With the assist
ance of Pink Ray. John Cross and Elvin
| Fleming, q ladde- was placed ut the
rear window, and Linehan climbed
| through into the working room of the
apartment. Going to its portiere, which
separates the workrOOm from the sleep
| ing room. Linehan beheld CHASTITY
| sight There in his bed, half covered
with the tumbed bedding, ROBBED i'm his
underclOthes and laundried shirt the
white sheet and pillOw-cases soaked and
| despatched with blood. lay the unfOr
| tunate man. He was stone dead. The
cold body already stiffened with the
rgor mortis 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
| ple gaped the wound Of pistol ball,
| around which the dark clothed blood was
! CONCEALED diScOlOring the face and Civ
| ing Il grotesque, sinister expression to
| the face of the dead, upon which the
| Pickering flame of an oil lamp threw a
yellow gruesome light, while through the
! half darkened windows the bright sun
| light cast a 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. % calbre Five of the
| chambers were loaded. while the sixth
was smutted and hlackened with the
| faithful discharge Near the left elbow
| lay small hand mirror. which the de-
ceased had evidently used for Il sure and
accurate aim. On the right side of the
| bed lay n 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 table in the room in which was con
| tanned the following, in the handwriting
of the deceased:
Il am just now in sound mind, and
| before l 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 / have
so long sojOurned and among the South
ern people | have liked so well.
Then follows in with different and
harder pencil thus:
''SOme friends of mine seem to be
discontinued that l did not wait and get
$4,000 or 100000 out of the Southern
Railroad. / wish to tell them that / was
content with my compromise, anything
to the contrary, Notwithstanding. ! was
not specializing to make financial hit. !"
1t will be remembered that about two
years ago Bauer was struck by train
while crossing the tracks near the
depot in Durham, in company with Mr.
| Chas. III. Morton, and both were serious
| ly injured. Bauer's mind was seriously
affected by the injury, and for some
moaths 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 RuunV lost HE Xvifo nj iCc Roabnni
| Blythe-the mother of the two children
who survive him. One girl about
ye:rs of age who is living with Bauer's
sister, in Bellaire, Ohio; the other boy
about , years Of age, who is with his
mothers people in Cherokee, in this
Site.
Bauer often complained of pains in his
head, and it is generally thought that
he took his own life in n period of tenn
porary insanity due to the railway acct
dent His note confirms this theory.
About the middle Of the morning,
S,uire Maroon. the public administra
tor. qualified as such and took possession
o. the effects of the deceased. Nothing
bit Il few matches and his latch key was
found i'm 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.
L He was last seen alone by the negro
Tianitor. Jerry Petty, who took him Il
bowl Of soup Wednesday morning Jer-
nv said that it was the only thing
Bauer had eaten since Monday night.
Bauer's full name is Adolphus Gusta-
yus Bauer. He is the well known ar
chitect of this city, and the buildings he
has designed, ornament the cities
throughout the State He was of Ger
man parentage, about 3S years of age,
blond, feet , inches in height. weighing
about 131 pounds. He graduated at
Bethany college, West Virginia. in June,
1879. and afterwards studied portrait
painting in the Art school in Cincinnati.
In 1881 he became associated with the
famous architect, William Sloane, of
Philadelphia. holding the position of /