Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-09
CARL PAULY FOUND DEAD
The Second Time That the Chef Att
 tempted Suicide.

Carl Pauly, a man about GO years old, committed suicide last night by hanging himself in the rear. of the Me- chanics' hotel, 259 South Main street. Until a week ago Pauly was employed as assistant chef at the hotel, and boarded at the Salvation army shelter, where he was quarantined with twen- ty-five or thirty others during the smallpox epidemic He was a, pretty, good fellow, when he took care of him.
 but once in while he stepped off
 narrow path and before he got
 Elk he usually made things interest
 for himself and others.
 This morning about 5:30 o'clock, E.
 Eillman, who works for MT Brior, pro-
 brietor of the hotel, went out into the
 back yard and noticed MT Pauly lean Ting against the stairway having a sleep, as he supposed. On re-entering the kitchen Tillman remarked that Carl was having a sleep outside, and MT BfiOr said not to disturb him, that he needed it. A little later 1t was mo- ticed that Pauly was dead, and upon examination a rope fastened to the stairway leading to the upper story of the building was found about his neck. His feet were on the ground. Medi- cal Examiner Crane was notified and ordered the body cut down and re moved to the morgue of Martin Ber- Gn's Sons. It is believed that the man planned to do away wit. himself and when everything was quiet he secured the rope, fastened it to the stair way, then tied it around his neck while Standing on the ground and tried to sit down or fell asleep, thus bringing the weight of his body on his neck and strangleds himself.
 M1. Ky nt,io and when out of sorts set but little value upon human life. On January l, 1897, when he was an employe of the Plume & Atwood Manufacturing Go and boarded at the Mechanics hotel, he came near killing Emil Gan gler, a we'll known local coachman, and also shot at himself. He was talking to Mir Gangler in the dining room, but the latter, then In the enl- ploy of Austin x Sackett. hadn't time to listen to him and was about to leave the place and pass on to his work when Pauly pulled revolver and fired. The bullet hit Gangler over the heart. but glanced off and lodged in the wall, leaving but slight abrasion of the skin on the fellows breast. Pauly, evidently thinking that he had killed Gang1er, disappeared along Grand street to the lots In the rear of the Highland division station, where he turned the weapon towards his own head and ploughed a bullet through his skull He remained there for some time and finally regained consciousness and worked his way back to his room. where Detective Ga hey and Officer Ha1pin found him the same night. He was removed to the hospital in precarious condition, but he pulled through all right and man. aged to keep out of the public eye since that time until this morning when it was given out that he had put an end to his career He had a wide acquaintance among the German peo- pie and was well liked. Those who knew him Intimately say that since the death of his wife several years ago he was subject to fits of melan- cholia and that when laboring under the influence of one of these spells he wds not responsible for what he said or did. He was at the shelter on South Main street while 1t was sguar- antined and came i'll handy as chef for Captain Richardson and his boarders He was the first man to appear on the landing when the quarantine was lift ed and immediately set to work to collect something from the city for his service as chef while the shelter was under the direction of the board of health. He had poor success in that direction. getting but very little remuneration for his service, if any thing at all.
 Mir Pauly is survived by one son.
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