The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-08
FIRED BULLET Close
TO TROUBLED HEART
Frank Finegan, Aged q, At
tempts Suicide.
LIFE EBBlNG OUT SLOWLY
Family Sorrows Drove Him to the
Verge of the Grave.
WAS GIVEN EXTREME JUNCTION.
Believing He Could Not Live, He Asked
for a Priest-BalI Tears Through
His Breast and Lodges in Back.
Says No Sweetheart's Way
wardness Behind RASH
ness and Despair.
WAS GIVEN EXTREME JUNCTION.

Frank Finegan. aged twenty-one, at
tempted to commit suicide last evening
by shooting himself in the left side Of
the breast.
Finegan fired the Shot about 6:15 o'clock.
standing near the little bridge that spans
Racon's Quarter Branch at Second Street.
lie states the cause of the attempt on ms
life as family trouble but declines to
,al, the nature of the sorrow that has
been pressing upon him. He is now at
the City Hospital in so precarious a con-
dition that the chances are agalhSl ms
getting we'll.
Finesan is nephew of Police Oficer
Finesan and is quite well known IN lhe
neiehborhood of his mothers home ne
has had employment at work recently at
the Reservoir. and was once empioSeo
at the Hoen's lithography. For snort
while ne has not had Work, SO IL was
learned last night.
WAS IT PREMEDITETED?
Yesterday afternoon he went out walk
ing. going out Second Street towards bar
ton Heights. He stopped at the mouse VI
Mrs Parsons in the ravine between the
CITY and Barton Heights. Alter taihilis
with Mrs. Parsons a little Whlie ne con
tinued his walk. His conversation at .iie
house had nothing in it to lnolcate ,.ial
he COnte .dDHS tdhiiiS Ai''H
He had gone ABOUT a hundred yaros pc
yond ,he house when the shot was hreo.
The hall which made large hole, en-
,e-ad the left side of the breast an iiicii
and a half to the left of the heart.
The repert of the pistol attracted at
tention TO the direction Of the young man,
who had fallen. Fully conscious nu'
bleeding freely. he was borne oach ,i, 70 ',S nf
parsons home DR.. r. w Miller =.
hastily sent 1OT anu
Barton Heights, was hhs'"S
gave treatment.
PRIEST WITH HIM
II ms thought that the wound wouiu
80, nroye fatal and Finegan hlmseii
ssl,ed for a priest. Druggist f,aaS u
parton Heights. phoned to MT. .., rnai.A
El;Iey to get a priest. and Nl'. bil,es ~, ,
Win Father Hannigan, Went d. 80 ee
to the house. Finesan co. Eatber
en- serious that the Reverend ats. Iat..s. !.
,ra r,ie confession and sadmlnlsteteUu U
a,-,rs-oe unctioa. as in case OF persons
believed to be dying "a
The ambulance WAS also sufiliiioilsu MI I, ~
and DR.. Sandidge. responding, toSh ..e
nstient to the City Hospital. NO a.
.en,pt was made last night 10 ~. "a.
bullet. as the injuEed man couio 'io'
stand it E;,.r,n CON
so;ars and asked him why he hao at
.sr,-,t.a 10 kill himself. he repieo
~, be had family trouble" He Wouio
saw nothing more about It.
NO GIRL" HE SAID.
T. vas reported that there was an un-
,ron,isinr love affair back of the rash-
pess p. e.i and that Finegan had gone out
to see the young lady Continued :, y,
pulses were alleged to have drlyen y9a MN MN
r. the muzsle of the pistol. he was
asked about this, but said there was iio
truth IN it. wet c.ry street
~ 49, eaIher was notified of the shoot
t,E ,,ts as soon as he was taken to the CITY
ing q. She came to see him at once
l1os s ra,,,,ined through the night with
him, hin, He has not lost consciousness s,nes
shnot,ng himself, but is danserousiy'
nrobably fatally. hurt 1t VIII take sev,
eral days to decide inns aIest,ot ao
deeply affecting him ano ms