The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-18
Believing His Victim Dead Heart Torn Husband and Father Blew Out Own Brains Man He Intended to Kill Is Probably Not Mortally In jured According to Phy-
 sicians Wife Whose Constancy He Suspected Had Caused His Arrest for Assault and Had Begun Proceed
 ings for Divorce
Dead Man Before the Trag- edy Visited School and Kissed His Two Boys Good Bye Was An In dustrious Husbandman

Gossipping tongues which connected the name of his wife with that of John Eckersol, caused Joseph Naj- mani, a resident of F,airfield to at tempt the life, of the former this morning and then to bio&.out. his own brafns.g, The principals were neigh bors and the tragedy occurred at the home of another neighbor, George varga, who resides on the .Danbury read. varga is a tailor and lives in a little two story cottage difectly fac ing the road The front room of his house he uses as a work. room and it was in this room that the tragedy took place. Varga was the only wit ness Nearly a quarter of a mile up the Aroad is the home of Charles Reyes. It is alleged that remarks made by him concerning Eckefsol and fair. .
 Eckersol came to visit varsa about 10:30 this morning. The taflor was at work in his little room and Ecker- sol sat in a bay window which faces the road. Najmani lives directly across the street and from the win dows of his own house Najmarli could see the man whom he thought had de- spoiled his home.
 He slipped big bull dog .38 calibre reVCdVor- lfhtO oIllS sPOShCl adlAo S1 OooCu the road to the Varga house. All the parties in the affair are Austrians and it is their custom to pass freely back and forth from each others houses. Ma jnani entered Vagas house with out knocking stepped directly into the front room where he faced EckersoI.
 According to the story of Varga, the only eye witness, the men faced each other for second without speaking. Then NaJnant IsAId; T have some tFning t9 say to you Fekersol come
 Eckersol refnafHed seated and look ing Najmani s44arely in the eye re- piled f"If you hAee anything to say to
 me say it here iii the presence of wit nesses." S
 take this'' aBefore Eckersol could move, NajnlafH tore the revolver out of his pocket, showed it into the face of his intended victim and pulled. the trigger, With a choking cry Ecker- ol collapsed and fell forward on his lace on the floor. still holding the smoking revolver Naimani stepped back clear of the wounded man. Var ga seized. a pair of heavy tailor shears and sl.rped through rear door to screamins from the house to warn the neighbors.
 , Najnanf made no attempt either to escape or to harm anyone else. He pls ced the 3uzzle of the revolver against his right temple and fired the head, Scattered his brains on the walls of the room and was dead be- fore his body struck the floor. He fell in such a posture that his body lay partly across that of his victim.
 Varsa says that the would-be mur- derer did not movesonce after he had fallen. Q Fackersol's limbs we're twftch- ing and he began to groan. Varga turned him ove--. on his face.~ found that life was not yet extinct. and then was sent to Sheriff. David Burr. Prose- cutting Attornev Clitus King and Town Clerk J. l. Flint. They all hurried to the scene. State Policeman Frank VireIli also heard of the shooting and he procured an automobile and with Interpreter Brill was on hand almost as soon a. the Fairfield officers. The officers made record breaking time in reaching the. house where the tragedy took place. but the man who was re- spcnsible had taken a route of escape over which no police officer might fol- low With blood trickling from gap ing wound in his temple he lay stiff and stark his sightless eyes staring up at the eeiling, his earthly troubles ended. ffaH
 From the Fairfield town offices a telephone message was sent to the Emergency hasp pital with a request for the auto amhulance. It reached the srot in niue minutes after the request was made. Eckersol was bundled in and with Sheriff Burr and Prosecutor King was rushed to the Bridgeport hospital. An examination there show | ed that the bullet had struck his left | cheek bone and deflecting downward had followed the line of the upper jaw and passed out the roof of the mouth. | The wound is not necessarily mortal and it is believed Eckersol wifi re- cover. It is believed that the -bock
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