The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-01
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Mystery of the Attempted
Suicide of Stockholm.
ON DAY OF HIS MARRIAGE
Secret TO a Friend
Who viii Not DivuIge 1t

WIN VIII mol UlVulS6 liz
Arkansas City, Kan, April So.-Giving
fun particulars of the attempted suicide
Of Charles Stockholm on the day Of his
marriage. the Arkansas City Traveller
says:
yesterday morning about S:45 Charles
! Stockholm attempted suicide by shooting
/ himself through the lower muscles of the
heart with a 3S-caIibre revolver. He had
I been a resident of the city for a number
OF years and has been in business with
/ his father on North Summit street, where
/ they ran a small fruit stand.
THE attempted suicide occurred at the
/ home Of his parent at GIG North Fifth
street. Mrs. Stockholm was out in the
yard and Miss Bertha was at work in
the kitchen. The father was just about
TO leave the house when he called to his
son and asked him If he wanted to go to
| the store any time during the day. He
replied:
- No. am going over to see Jennie.
Goodbye. Pa
His father answered goodbye" and
stepped out of the house. he had not
gone more than a few steps from the
door when he heard q shot from the in
side Of the house. He ran in through
the kitchen and into his sons room,
where he found Charles citing on the
edge Of the bed, the revolver having fall
len to the floor. The father took hold OF
the young man and asked him what was
the trouble. As he did so the young man
leaned forward and the blood gushed
from his mouth.
Quite a crowd Immediately collected
and DR.. Teller was called. The wound
was examined and it was found that it
would not be Immediately fatal, if fail
at all.
THE wounded man was conscious and
talked to friends after the wound had
been dressed There is no apparent rea-
son why he should try to Kill himself.
VHe was to have been married today to
Mrs. Jennie AIcPeck, a widow, whose
husband died in Colorado some time ago.
All arrangements for the marriage had
been made. They were to go to Winfield
today and be married there. He bought
his wedding suit Saturday and evidently
had no intention Of taking his life until
yesterday morning. After he was wound
ed Mrs. Peck went into the room and
asked him if anything she had done had |
caused him to take his life. He told her
that she was not to blame and that he /
loved her as wei as ever, but he added: !
There is one secret in my life that has |
caused all of this"
He also told her when questioned that |
no one at home was concerned in 1t. He |
refused to tell any more concerning the 4
secret and all efforts TO get him to talk |
on the subject were useless.
"a reporter interviewed the father ana |
he said that his so nhad never been away /
from home more than two months in his |
entire Ilfe He said that he knew moth |
ing in the life of his son that would cause |
him to want to end it. He was a young |
man Of good habits and his father is en- /
tirely at loss for q cause to assign to
his action.
It is a fact. However, That during The
past two weeks the young man has been
doing considerable thinking and it has
caused his parents and also his fance to
notice it. He seemed to have something
on his mind that he would not tell and
when questioned about it always replied
that it was nothing. Mrs. McPecl not
iced it and think that perhaps he did not
wish to marry her, told him that if such
was the case. he would be instantly re-
leased from thE engagement. Lie insisted
that there was nothing wrong.
THE revolver belonged TO flI5 elder
Stockholm but was usually carried by the
young man when going home at night
from the store. He is . years of age.
"The young man IS still alive today, |
but it is not believed that he will re-
cover. The bullet pierced one of the mus
cles of the heart which would not pro-
duce instant death.
Last night, his cousin, Walter Pies,
was with him and he talked to him con-
corning his reason for attempting suicide
Stockholm finally told Piles his secret,
which the latter says he viii keep to him
self unless the other dies, in which event
ne VIII tell it. a reporter talked with
Piles this morning and asked him the
question:
is this so-caned secret OF such q char
acter that it would cause you to commit
suicide if it was in your nfe?'' and he
replied that it would not. He also said
that the secret does not in any way con-
Germ the wedding that was to be or had
anything at all to do with his matrimon-
ial plans. Further than that Piles re-
fused TO tell.
Stockholm has said a number Of times
that he does not want TO get well and
in case he does he Will try again. He
said once that he would use a rope and
hang himself next time so that he would
be sure he has repeatedly said he
wished he had been more careful and his
aim had been better.
Mrs. Stockholm is Frustrated with
grief
Mrs. 0TcPeck. the woman 70 whom he
is engaged, is widow and the mother
of two children. Her husband died a year
ago last fall."
MIGHTY GOOD ADVICE.