Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-04-23
GEORGE SWINSON is
VICTIM OF SUICIDE.
INSANE SOME TINE
Shot Himself In
Temple With
Revolver.
IN BED ROOM

In a fit of insanity George
Swinson, thirty-one years old, of 162
Brighton avenue, committed suicide
at his home this morning by shooting
himself in the head with .32 calibre
revolver He was found by his wife,
still alive, lying across bed in his
room. DR.. G. w. Fithian was sum
moned. but Swinson died shortly
after the physician reached the
house.
The shooting occurred some time
between ] / and HAS o'clock. Mrs.
Swinson, returning from the yard of
the house, where she had been since
IL o'clock, missed her husband and
went in search of him. In a room
which he occupied she found his
body, fully clothed, stretched across
the bed, gaping bullet wound in his
right temple. Beside him on the bed
lay the revolver. Despite the fact
that his brains were scattered on the
cover Of the bed, there was still life
in the body.
Mrs Swinson ran into the street,
where she found Arthur Schroeder,
q painters doing some work on a
building on the opposite side of the
street. Almost fainting, she informs
ed him of her husbands act, and as
there was still hope of saving the
man, Schroeder summoned DR. Fifth
ian. When he arrived, however,
there was found to be no chance for
recovery and the injured man ex-
pired short while after
AS far as can be learned, Swinson
had no previous intention of taking
his life. No note or writing of any
kind has been discovered to show
why he killed himself. 1t is thought
that in a fit of insanity, to which he
was subjected, he pickedup therevol-
yer and blew his brains out. Only
eone chamber of the revolver had been
discharged. 1t could not be ascer-
tanned whether or not the barrel had
been recently filled, or whether the
cartridges had been in the gun for
any length of time.
Coroner Ferd Garretson was sum
moned and after viewing the body
and learning the details of the
shooting, pronounced 1t case of sui
eide. He carried away with him the
revolver with which the act was
committed.
Swinson has been subject to last
Ing fits of insanity for some time.
Several times he has been placed in
the State Hospital for the Insane,
and on numerous occasions he has
been sent to the county Jail for acts
committed while demented. 1t is
only a few weeks since he was ar
leased from the state hospital, where
he had been confined since Januery.
On the thirteenth of that month he
was arrested for breaking several
bones in his aged fathers body 1t
was claimed at the time that while
his brain was affected, he had as
saulte1, his parent, knocking him to
the floor Of small grocery In Cor
don street, which he managed, and
kicking him almost into insensibil-
ity. For years he has been known
about town as an odd character,
committing actions of an insane ma
ture. On the day following the last
city election, he went to New York
with several hundred dollars, the re-
sGlt of electica bets, and squandered
1t all, returning with only an expen-
sive necktie, for which he had no
use. A few months ago he made
business of peddling novelties, but
his recent trip to the state asylum
compelled him to abandon that pur-
suit.
Swinson is survived by a widow
and two children. He has living a
father, Peter Swinson, but since the
time of the aforementioned assault
there has been but little Intercourse
btween them. The body cf the dead
man was taken to Coroner Garrett
sons morgue.