St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-11-08
WOMAN, ILL AND DEsPONDENT.
SHOOTS HERSELF.
Mrs. Sadie kretzky Attempts Suicide
While Husband is Away
From House.

Mrs. Sadie Kretzky Attempts Suicide
While Husband is Away
From House.
New Orleans, Nov. 3.-With body
and mind racked by prolonged III
ness, Mrs. Sadie kretzky, thirty
/ three years old, wrapping pistol in
the folds of her skirt to muffle the
report. shot and seriously wounded
herself Monday afternoon in her
nome. 9O4 Constantinople street.
While her one-year-old son cooed
and Kicked up his little heels on q
bed IN the same room, Mrs. Kretxky
lay bleeding on the floor, conscious
Dut st01cal as q wounded Spartan.
The pain was greater than !
could bear" she said simply when
her husband came home and knelt
beside her, his frame shaking with
sObs.
The wife and mother was taken
to Touro Intirmary, where DR.. Ran
dolph Matas performed the necessary
surgical operation. The woman's
condition was said to be extremely
critical.
STORY OF SUFFERING.
Mrs. kretzky's act was the culm1-
nation OF pathetic story of suffer-
Ing, with q husbands self-sacrifice
and devotion to his mate in the back.
ground. She had been i'll for two
years. Last spring her husband. J.
kretzKy, sold out his little business
Tor what he could get for it on thu
spur OF the moment, and took his wife
to California in the hope that she
would regain her health In the sunny
cline Of the Pacific coast.
That was last May. The children.
Harry, aged 5, and Paul, now aged
l year. went with their parents.
Mrs. Kretzky's condition apparently
improved. and month ago her hus-
band decided they would return
return home so he could resume his
BUSINESS. With forced good spirits
Mrs. Kretzky agreed to return. To-
her the Western climate was more
than Offset by the thought Of being
again with her relatives and friends
in New Orleans.
But after they had come back Mrs.
kretzky's condition once more un-
derwent change for worse. Her
husband was planning to return tic
the West with her. But suffering
and the thought of leaving her
friends for strangers again 20 prey
ed upon her mind that she decided
10 end all. From her bureau she
removed .38-caliber pistol, kept in
the home for protection. She did
not tell her husband of her intention.
and waited until she was alone with
her baby to fire the shot.
SHOT NOT HEARD.
The house Is on q busy corner, a. |
Magazine and Constantinople streets. |
Mrs. A. Muniero, living with hel
children in the other side of the
house, failed to hear the shot, and |
knew nothing Of the tragedy until
the husbands cries of grief came to
her ears. Mrs. Kretzky's intention |
20 mutiie the pistols report had sue
,eeded SO we'll that she was almost |
lead from loss of blood before she
vas found.
Entering the abdomen, the bullet
'anged acutely upward, penetrating
he liver and right lung, and was re-
moved from the upper right 0s.m.
Or. Matas, whom the sick woman had
listed several months ago, said the
hot might have been fired by either
he left or right hand. He also said
hat the greatest injury was from the
Internal hemorrhages, and that Mon
lay night probably would decide hei
hances Of surviving.
Take good care of the baby"
'ere Mrs. Kretzky's last words be-
ore the ambulance carried her
way to the hospital, where her hus-
and paced the corridors restlessly
trough the long night.
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