The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-27
Tragedy In the Home Of
R. l. Grove.
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ScHooLBoY DIES
BY PISTOL SHOT
Left Alone to Study, Youth Played
With Revolver.
FOUND by His Mother sitting Upright
I'm Chair with CHASTITY Wound I'm
Head--onIy Child Of Popular
L. q N. Engineer.

Returning from the montgomery
Theatre a few minutes after IL O'Clock
| last night Mrs r. L. Grove. of %
North Hull street, found her only son,
Emmett Grove, fourteen years old,
| a student at Starkes University school,
| sitting upright in chair dead. He
| had been killed by the discharge OF
pistol in his own hand.
lie required only short walk OF
three blocks to plunge Mrs. Grove VINO
Is the wife of an engineer on the Mo
| bile division of the Louisville ana
| Nashville Railroad Company, from the
pleasures and joyous good nature OF
attendance upon the play to abjeet
misery and espair.
| ITnon her return from the play at
the MONTGOMERY Thheatre last night
where she had gone with MISS heeo,
a friend. to while away the evening
during the absence from the city OF
her husband, Mrs. Grove found the
lead body of her only son. already
| growing cold in death, sitting in the
chair where she had left him early In
| the vening in the preparation OF MS
lessons for today's school
| The boy had accidentally, so far as
could be judged by circumstances snot
/ himself Just to the rear OF the right
temnle. the bullet entering the skull,
| and apparently causing instant death.
Emmett Grove was sitting in the
chair where he had been studying. His
books were scattered about him. but
he had apparently tired of them, ana
began playing with his fathers Der.
| ringer pistol, which he had secured
| from a drawer in the room.
| Boy Died Alone.
The boy was alone In the house, and
| lust how the accident occurred will for
ever remain a mystery. But in some
manner the lad drew the trigger. The
bullet entered the head on the right
| side, and 1t Is believed that death re-
suited instantaneously. as the body,
| when the mother found 1t, was still in
the chair, with one leg thrown care
| lessly over the arm of the wicker rock
err, and the right arm, which had held
the pistol, resting on the back of the
chair. perhapS eighteen inches from
his head.
The bullet tore its way through the
boys head, his skull having been frac-
| tured. The life blood of the youth
was spattered all about, saturating the
shirt he wore. and forming a great
pool on the carpet In the center of the
floor. at the side of the rocking chair
| where he was sitting.
Mrs. Crows was entirely alone during
the first few seconds of her sudden and
overpowering grief. She and Miss
Reed who resides next door, had part
ed on the sidewalk In front of the
Crooks residence upon their return from
the theatre, and Mrs. Crows had en-
tered her home alone. AS soon as she
saw the body of her son, and realized
than an accident had befallen him that
had cost him his life, she began scream
. ing 1t was these screams which first
attracted the attention of passersby to
the tragedy that had been enacted.
No Sign Of Life.
But while she was distracted and al
| f,o. - trrah bar
did not lose her presence of mind. The
first arrivals upon the scene called for
a physician, and DR.. r. N, Pitts re-
sponded without delay. Even at that
time theer was not the faintest sign
of life, and the body of the boy was
cold in death. Theer was absolutely
| nothing that could be done.
neighbors and friends came and led
the stricken mother to another room
while Conorer W. H. Tice and DR.
Pitts, assisted by the members of the
police force. and friends of the fam
lily, did what was necessary for the re-
mains.
: The pisto THAT caused the death Of
young Grove was a 41-calibre. double
barrelled Derringer, of an old pattern
: 1t was kept in a drawer in the sitting
room. wher the boy had been left &c
prepare his lessons for school. The pis'
toll had fallen. after the shot, TO the
| Hnnr at
Z Emmett Grove was born between Il
) and IA years ago In Louisville, Ky.
whence the Groves came to Montgom
: erv aboutei ght years ago. The COY wal
/. a atudent of Starke's School on Dexter
avenue, a block away from his nome
having Just COMMENCED his second tern
of school there.
:, Mar employee of the Louisville anC
Nashville. For eight years. since thu
FAMILY moved to Montgomery, he ha
had a run as engineer on the Mooile an
Q Montgomery division OF that road n
was out on the line, inthe performance
4 of his duty atthe time MS son met M
death He arrived In Montgomer!
( from Mobile after midnight, his en-
). gtna nuIlinR tho second section o
n Srstebt train No 70. The train dis
i natcher's office had been notified OF TN
e terrIbIe accident and arranged maj
( tsrs 40 that he could go at once 10 nj
hor,e 70 learn at first hand of the trag
!. n S,i and 70 aid in comforting his striek
e en- wife.
: Many Friends Respond.
t D,,s Of the terrible accident trav
l, oiad FAST and even before the arrNa
AZ Mr. Grove, many friends OF III
family. who are held in high esteem
mad gathered from many portions o
the city to do what they coulu lot IN
q father ana AZ
t. Young GROVE was a bright. activ
10 how His sudden and tragic death VII
leave a vacant place in his schoolroor
= where he was popular with student
and faculty.
The time when the fatal shot wa
:. ared cannot be fixed, but 1t was short
u Iv after 10 o'clock, perhaps as late
Il 1890 o'clock. -
: was attended by Mrs. Grove was con
> clnded AT almost exactly IL o'clock
= and as her home Is only three block
distant. she should have reached Their
= about 1l:1O o'clock. 1t is said that
= single shot was heard in the neighbor
: hood some three-quarters of an hou
= hefore the screams of Mrs. Grove at
n tracted the attention of neighbors. an
fba condition of the remains at tn
. time of the arrival of the physician an
. tho others who were called in would in
a dicate the lad had been dead about tina
police Captain Smith and Corone
= Tice were called to the Grove resi-
II dence soon after the body was found.
y II is probable that the body of youn
q Grove will be shipped to Louisvill
% mis- evening for interment