The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-14
z SUICIDES SUNDAY
G.S. Gould of Montpelier and
Antonio VelroveTo ook Their
Own Lives
GOULD HANGED HIMSELF

Through the Head Because of Des-
pOndency, But the motive OF Mr..
Gould Is Not knOwn-BOth, Men
Well known and Respected.
Gustavus S. Gould, prominent
citizen of this city and a Civil War
veteran, committed suicide Sunday
by hanging himself at his home in
Wrightsvile.
The last seen of him was in the
morning when he drove the cows to
pasture but as he often spent Sun
days with his brother across the riv-
er. his family did not look for him
until chore time, about 1880 o'clock,
when he was found hanging by a
hitching rope from rafter in the
barn.
There is no known reason for his
act as he was in the best health and
had seemed to be in the best of spir-
its at hoD.r although the neighbors
had notice. in the last few days that
he acted v strange
Mr.. GoulL served in the Civil War
in Company E, 18th Vermont Regi
ment, and since then had followed
the trade of carpenter, besides carry
ing on farm. He had always lived
in Wrightsville and his parents were
among the first settlers of the town.
He is survived by a widow and
four sons, Fred, Lewis, Lester c, and
Walter E., a student at the Univer
sity of Vermont, and one daughter.
Besides these he is survived by his
mother, who is over 80 years of age,
one brother, Wilbur Jerome, of
Springfield, Mass, and one sister,
Mrs. Jackson Blodgett of this city.
Gustavus Gould was the son of Jo-
seph and Lucinda Gould and was
born 81 years ago on the farm that
his family now lives on.
Suicide in Barre.
Antonio Velrove of South Barre, a
teamster employed by Edward Witham
committed suicide Sunday forenoon
~bY shooting himself through the head
in East Barre. His body was discov
cred there an hour later, and taken to-
the undertaking establishment of M.
J. Whitcomb.
Volrove was very Respondent the
greater part of the week and told Mr..
Witham Wednesday that he thought
he would have to have an operation
performed on his eyes. The next day
he asked for his pay, saying that he
intended going to DR.. E. e. Sprague's
office in Barre and that probably he
would have to travel to Montreal to
have the operation performed. He did
not return to South Barre that night
and Mr.. Witham supposed that he had
gone to an hospital but heard the
next day that he had been in East
Barre and that he had told some one
that the doctor had advised his going
to Boston for an operation.
This was the last heard from him
until the announcement of his death
yesterday. Yesterday morning lit
tie after II o'clock William Crowley
was on his way past the old water
tub in East Barre when he found the
body of the dead man. Volrove was
lying on the ground when found, with
his head on an old box and the revol-
yer with an empty chamber beside
him His valise was at his feet where
he had left it all packed up ready to
90 to the Boston hospital, Health
Officer E. IL. Bailey was called and
ordered the removal of the body
to an undertaking establishment. The
dead man has been in this country
for six years and is 22 years of age
He comes from Portugal. Mr.. With
am said that he was a good workman
and we'll liked among the men, but
that of late he had been very despon-
dent because of the trouble with his
eyes. States Attorney Benjamin
Gates and DR. Stone will Investigate
the case this morning