The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-11-03
SELF INFLICTED
SHOT PROVES FATAL
Had Carried on Small Install.
ment Business and Did His Col
Letting at Night-Kad
Spoken of Financial
RIG HIM Nd. VA.-SpeciaI.-

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Apparently starting out with the
intention Of shooting himself through
the heart and then losing his nerve.
Jacob Bloom,' OF 217 North Eighteenth
Street. at o'clock Wednesday shot
nlmseif in the shoulder inficting a
wound from which he died at the City
Hospital shortly before 3 o'clock
anna, m shot was the cry that
aroused his wife. sleeping in their
. partment upstairs. She ran hastily
if,,wnstairs. from where she had heard
IN cry and found her husband. part
y dressed, lying in a pool of Blood
on the dining room floor. with his
revolver near his side.
The city ambulance, was ,surnmoned
and DR.. Thurston had the man. re-
moved to 1.-The hospital, where DR.
II enson performed operation II
was discovered that the bullet had
severed one OF the main arteries and
the loss OF. blood had been great. The
wounded man saWaS unable to with
stand the loss of. blood and the shock
OF the. operation. and died within a
short time. from what is considered
an unusual wouRd. .....
Bloom has lived, in Richmond for
number of years and is well known.
he was thlrty-eight years of age and
leaves wife and three children. He
was Tor long time employed as a
collector, but about three years, aisu
went into business in O.. a small way
TOR himself. He conducted an install
ment business from his residence and
business, and financial troubles are
given by the. peuce+ Tor his act 49,.
lnNaStlSauon by, the police today
shows that Bloom has been despond-
emit for several days and had enaadp
statementsistO friends Indicating his
despopdency. and worry over financial
matters. At the hospital before being
operated on he is said to have; made
reference to some banking matters.
but his remarks were not intelligible
The. family and friends allege that
the shooting must have been aociden-
tai and state thai there is no reason
financial or i, Otherwise-that could
have caused him to deliberately shoot
himself 1t was stated, at the house
this morning that Bloom did his col
lecting at night. As most OF his. Gus
/ toners. are working people who are
engaged during the day. he called
upon them in the evening and being
out late at nights with money on his
person. he carried a revolver.
IT is his habit, IL was stated. to,clean
this revolver every morning and place
1t in drawer of the sidebOard in the
dining room. The theory advanced is
that in booking at the revolver i'm
preparing te clean it. it was acciden-
tally discharged and the ball lodged
in the shoulder.
At midnight last night Bloom had
not returned home and when some
neighbors, who had been spending the
evening at the Bloom home, left Mrs.
Bloom expressed some uneasiuess at
the absence of her husband She re-
tired, however, and went to sleep be
fore ne came in. This morning she
stated that she does not know what
time he came in. No one knows
whether he had just come in before
the shooting or if he came in earlier
in the morning.
The first report made to the police
was accidental shooting. but the po-
lice estigatiOn develops circum-
stances that lead to the suicide theory.