The Alaska citizen., 1917-05-28

III order that some light mig. Commissioner Hcilig stated over the effects of the man an inquest on Monday.
 "Little Nick" as he was best known on account of being rather small in stature. will be best re. membered by those not well ac- qualnted with him by the fact that he has oluclated as door man at Thorue's theatre for a number of years Always of a joyial disposition he was a familiar figure to the nov ing picture going public of Fair banks During the past winter, how ever, he Was missed from his ac customet place "on the door" a great many tmes. once during a period of three weeks. when he was in the hospital with stomach trouble. And lt is now believed that his condi- ton caused him to take his own life in if Of mental aberratton.
 Nick did not show up at Thorne's for work last night as usual, which fact was d cause for surprise, for the reason that he had never be fore remained away from duty with out notifying the management. The result was that when Gabe VendettI c'Two-fer-a-Quart@ , arrived at the theatre, Mir. Thornc asked him to go ,0 NIck's cabin and s"" what could be- preventing him from show ing up. Gabe went and tried the door o1 the house, but was unable 10 get in. He then went around to the back door and tried to gain entrance to the house there, bUt found that 1t also had been locked
 Coming around again to the front Gabe knocked, then listened to tr5 to find out fl anyone was in the cabin 1t wa5 then that he heard the gurgle that afterwards proved To be the death rattle and, becon ing alarmed he called to Dan Band man and Monk" Murphy, who Wer" passing on their way to band prae tice at the armory across the street At this juncture William Brodhagen, who lives next door, came out of his house, and the four of them proceeded to force the back door, suspicioning that something was wrong.
 When they reached the front room almost the first thing they saw was the body of Mongelli lying between the bed and the stove in a space approximately two feet wide. See ing that the condition of the man was serious, Sandman rushed to a telephone to call a physician. and succeeded in getting Dr. NJ. F. Hall to the scene. He then went back and discovered the pistol, but it was not until the four men had placed Mongelli on the bed that they dis covered that he had sustained gun shot wound in the right temple. Sandman then examined the pistol and saw that one chamber had been fired.
 The foregoing incidents happened at about TAO o'clock A few mo- ments later Dr. Hall arrived on the scene and, with the assistance Of Mrs. Harry Edwards, who has been a professional nurse, and who lives nearby, did all in his power to re store res spiration All of the efforts of physician and nurse, however, were of no avail, the final pronounce ment of death coming at about S:10 o'clock.
 Since the time he spent three weeks in the hospital during the winter Mongelli has been noticed to be of a Respondent nature, He did not complain to any great ex- tent of being seriously ill. but was heard at various times to make re- marks regarding not having any friends and others to the same eff feet
 He worked all yesterday afternoon with Sofe knutson, the picture ma |chine operator at the theatre. un- packing films at Thorne's warehouse |Knutson said last night that he had