Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1898-09-30
ANOTHER SUICIDE.
Louis Bartholomew Of Cockren Township
Kills Himself with Pistol After
a Quarrel with His Son,
Lucius.

Bartholomew, a well-to-do farmer and
good citizen of Cockrell township, had
committed suicide al his home about
2 I-2 miles southwest of Bynumville.
DR.. G. NJ. Dewey, coroner, accom-
panied by Constable F. NJ. Veatch Of
KeytesviIle township, left early We'd
nesday morning for the scene of the
tragedy for the purpose of holding an
inquest, which was done before the
following jury:
THE JURY.
B. R. Collet, E. J. Atterberry,
Milburn Minks, J. T. Hinkle,
w. E. Fitzgerald, John Frazier,
of which B. r. Collet was made fore
man.
The following testimony was taken
down in writing by Constable F. NJ.
Veatch:
loe Gatterman testified:
| reside in Cockrell township, Char
iton county, Mo. About seven or eight
O'Clock on the 27th day of September,
1903, heard Mr.. Bartholomew bell
and went down there to see what was
the matter, and when got there his
son, Lucius, came out and sal-! 'Pa
is dead" We then went to the back
door and saw Mr.. Wescott, and he
said: ''Mr. Bartholomew is dead" l
saw his body. l saw the pistol under
his arm. After the doctor came help
ed to carry the body into the house. |
saw bullet-hole above his right ear.
/ live about thIee-quarters of a mile
west of Mr.. Bartholomew Was well
acquainted with him. / had never no.
ficed that there was anything wrong
with the man.
DR.. 7. S. Vandeventer testified:
1 reside in Cockrell township, Char
iton county, Mo. On the night of Sep
tember 27th, 1898, about IL O'Clock,
/ was called to the residence of Mr..
Bartholomew. | found Mr. Bartholo-
NEW lying in the north room of his
residence on some plank. He was then
dead. Mr.. Wescott brought the light
and showed me the wound in his head
l assisted in the b0St-m0It6m examina-
ton today. In introducing the probe it
went directly toward the center OF the
brain. In following the direction of the
ball the probe would easily enter seven
or eight inches. AS medical man I
think this wound would produce IN
slant death. l did not see any pistol.
Lucius Bartholomew testified:
1 reside in Cockrell township, Char
iton county, Mo. On the 27th day Of
September, 1898, was here at my
fathers until we had little quarrel |
This was about seven o'clock. My father
and myself had some words about !
some hogs that he had that were both
ering the neighbors; the words were
not especially angry. He did not like It 7
because 1 would not fix the fence
around my place and take the hogs !
there. | then left the house and went
over to Bee branch bridge and
told him that | could not sleep and l
would go over and cut corn. 1 sat
there until some folks passed over the
bridge to keep them fom seeing me.
I just felt SO BAD that l came back
and went In the barn 10 sleep there
last night. l felt blue and thought that
l was mistreated. l was lying there
and said to myself: 4 can't stand
this; l will leave and stay away" Hell
was in the barn when | went there,
Out l did not know 1t. Don't know
whether he was watching me or not.
My father said: I can't stand this"
told him that would go away and
stay away, as 1 was tired of fussing. He
said: 'Well, / can't stand this, either"
went out on the road about one-half l
mile, and heard pistol shot. I did
aot know whether it was a pistol shot (
Or the outside door shutting, but l {
came back to the gate. I listened to /
near my mother hollo if it was a pis-
ol shot, but did not hear her [ saw
Ter upstairs with light, apparently
lressing. as l.a.ht. 7 -. E-4