The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-28
WITH REVOLVER IN MOUTH
WILSON BLEW OUT
HIS BRAINS
Clad in His Night Clothes and With His Sons
Pistol CIutched Firmly in His Right Hand
Aged and Highly Respected Citi.
EenPuIled Trigger and Ended
His Life in An Instant.

said that he had no pain, but that his
| head just felt wrong. He remained for
! some time on the bed, apparently in
| stupor. Not being able to arouse him
| from his lethargic condition. Mrs. Will
son sent for Rev. C. A. Jackson, the
minister of the congregation to which
! she and her husband belonged.
Visited by Minister.
Rev. Jackson remained but a short
| time. as he found the sick man resting
wen. He saw nothing in his appear
anCe TO cause alarm. and his visit had
soothing effect upon the soicitous
wife. The minister felt the old gentle
mans pulse and noted his respiration,
but the sleeping man did not awake.
He left the house, little dreaming that
few hours later he would enter upon
mission of death.
When Mr.. Wheeler Wilson returned
from work in the evening he found his
father still unwell, but there was moth
ing in his appearance or demeanor to
arouse alarm. He said that unless he
felt better he would not go to his daily
duties on the next day.
Wife Preparing supper.
little after s o'clock, Mrs. Wilson,
who had been by her husbands side
all day, ministering to his every want
and repeatedly questioning him as to
how he felt. left the room for a few
minutes for the purpose of having a
dish of hominy prepared for her hus-
band. She was down stairs in the
kitchen, when, few minutes later she
heard the shot fired.
Mrs. Wilson thought at the instant
that the explosion was caused by the
bursting of a bottle of beer which had
| been placed on the ice earlier in the
evening. The suppressed sound was
accounted for by the fact that the shot
was fired while the pistol was in the
mouth of the desperate man.
! Mrs. Wilson recalled, after the trag-
edy, that she had found her sons dress
er drawer open and in a dsordered con-
! dition shortly before the deed was
done. She took little notice of it then,
| but merely pushed the drawer to. 1t
was this drawer in which the pistol was
kept, and at that very time, it is
thought, the pistol was resting under
the pillow of the detected man, idly
waiting its deadly mission.
MIR. Wilson Well known.
Mr.. Wilson was born in Efingham
county, Feb. %, 1897, being &C years
of age at the time of mis- death. He
had lived in Savannah nearly all his
| life. For more than eighteen years
| he had been bookkeeper for Solomon
| Sheftall, and in that capacity at all
! times rendered efficient and thoroughly
satisfactory service. He had appear
| ed in the best of spirits at his work.
and his employer was surprised when
he heard of his sudden death by sui
| eide
For several years Mr.. Wilson had
been in i'll health His condition was
I at no time alarming, though he was
often respondent and apathetic. For
! the past two months he has attended
! his business duties regularly, though
his health had been bad He had new
er, however, said a word of ending his
/ unhappy life.
Besides wife and son, Mr.. Wheeler
| Wilson, who both live in Savannah at
| the home of the deceased, the dead
man leaves a son, Mr.. George G. Will
son, Jr., who is now in the government
| employ in Washington. He formerly
| lived in Savannah, where he was at
times associated with the daily pa
pers. He has been notified of his
fathers death.
The funeral will take place this
| afternoon at 5 o'clock from the res
| idence. Rev. c. A. Jackson will Off
ciate. The interment will be in Laurel
Grove Cemetery.