The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-13

dictate Avenues.
| The dead body of Simon Koldzeij, for
merly proprietor Of a saloon at the corner
| OF carroll street and Harrington avenue,
was round yesterday forenoon at II
O'Clock In grove near the corner Of Day
ton and Syndicate avenues, in the Mid
way district A bullet hole Immediately
below the heart. showed that the dead
mans threat to his wife. to take his life,
! was made in sober earnest and had been
carried out The remains were taken to
the county morgue and afterwards to the
| Nagel undertaking rooms.
On Tuesday Mrs. Koldzeij found a note
in her husbands room, stating that he
| had tired of life and had determined to
| end his existence. He gave no special rea-
| sons for the wish to die, except that he
had found 1t would be better for him were
he dead His wife found the note, and
was greatly worried about the occurrence,
believing that her husband would carry
out his threat. She reported the affair to
the police, and they made a search for
the man, but were unable to find him.
After leaving home Koldzeij was not
seen again alive. No one knows where
ne went or what he did. He was Of a ret
1cent disposition and was not in the habit
of making condolences to his friends. IIe
told no one of his determination, and, so
Tar as can be learned, was not seen after
he left the note in his bedroom for his
wife.
little before noon yesterday a lady liv-
Ing at some distance from the place where
ha ndxyr
the ground, and had notification sent to
the Prior avenue substation by telephone
coroner Nelson was notified at once, and
visited the spot finding the body lying as
mad been stated, q revolver near by and
dark blood spots underneath, showing
that the man had lost considerable blood
from bullet wound almost Immediately
underneath his heart. The fatal shot had
been fired from a 32-caliber revolver and
the ball traversed the section below the
heart, coming out in the back, near the
spine. Death must have been instantane-
OuS
The remains were sent to the morgue at
once and prepared for burial The cor
oner decided that the evidences of suicide
were so strong that post mortem and
inquest could be dispensed with At the
| request of brother of the dead man, the
remains were transferred later to an I'M
| dertak1ng establishment and will be
| buried from there
AT the time the body was found there
were indications that it had lain without
HE for several hours, and the coroner and
his assistants were Of the opinion that the
| suicide occurred about 9 o'clock yester-
day forenoon. The district lying near
Dayton avenue at that point is thinly
| settled, and there~are no houses in anv
| direction for q hi
| would easily account for the fact that no
| one heard the shot which ended Koldzeii's
| life Lying on the ground as 1t did. and
| some distance from the street, the body
would not have attracted the attention
| Of passers.
Koldze1j has been a resident Of st. Paul
Tor number of years, and for several
| months past had conducted the saloon at
| the corner Of Carroll street and Earring
| ton avenues Previously to locating there
| he had saloon at 744 st. Anthony avenue.
where he was in business for more than
ten years. When he first came to the city
he was employed in different saloons as a
| bartender, but being of a thrifty dispo-
| s1tion soon established a place of bust
| ness Of his own.
| Mrs. KoldZeij was notified of the death
| OF her husband by Coroner Nelson early
| yesterday afternoon. She states that for
| some time he husband had not seemed to
| be In his usual good spirits and had
seemed to have a care on his mind of
which he did not tell his wife. Though
| she could not give definite reason for
her opinion beyond a general impression,
she stated that she had feared his mind
| was affected and that trouble would re-
| suit from his fits of unrest and gloomy
| views of life. So strong was her intuition
that when the note from the dead man
| was found, stating that he desired to end
| his life, she accepted the threat as made
| In good earnest, and made every effort to
| trace him and save him from himself
The knowledge impaired by her fear was
| more trustworthy than the opinion held
| by the police. who did not take the threat
| seriously, but thought that in the course
| of few days the missing man would
either return to his home of his own &C.
| cord or be found safe somewhere about
| the city.