Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-07-24
AGENTS WIFE
DIES FROM
GUN WOUND
>(From Tuesdays Daily.9

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Mrs. Floyd L. Main. 227year-old wife
OF the Northwestern station agent at
Evansville, is dead, victim late Mon
day afternoon of a bullet from a %
automatic reyolyer-a suicide, or
murdered?
According to the story Of the hus-
band, it was suicide.
Two small children, a girl of and
boy of 2, are motherless, and members
of a well-known family overcome with
sorrow this morning as the result Of
the death.
Lived at Cottage
Mr.. and Mrs. Main with their two.
children and Mr.. and Mrs. John Stair
have been living in a cottage on Lake
Gibbs, which is about six miles from
Evansville. Stair is a printer con-
nected with the Evansville Review
and the Antes Printing company.
The men working in town drove out
each evening and remained with their
families at nights and over Saturdays
and Sundays. Mains hours at the
station were from o'clock in the
morning until 4 o'clock in the after
noon.
Monday he drove out to the cottage
as usual, arriving shortly before 5
O'Clock. Accompanied ~ his wife, he,
drove to the Dooley farm about mile
up the road east to where they got
the water for the camp. They were
supplied with large water can. While
at the house they had also purchased
some eggs.
According to Mains story, an argu-
ment ensued on the way back his
wife threatening to get out OF the.
automobile and walk back to the
cottage. He says he told her to stay
in the car as there was no use of her
walking back.
Reaching in her coat pocket. she
produced the small revolver and shot
herself, the bullet entering her right
side between the fourth and fifth
ribs passing through her body coming
out between the eight and ninth ribs
in her back. She died instantly. That
is Mains story.
He drove to the cottage and she,
was Immediately brought to Evans
vile. This occurred between 5:15 and
$50 o'clock.
1t is known that Mrs. Main had
been in poor health for some time.
Only recently she was taken to Ro-
chester by Mr.. Main and received
treatment from the Mayo Bros. She
was not operated upon at the time. b
The couple have been married
about seven years, living in Evans
vile, the brides home ever since the
marriage. Main formerly lived in
Brooklyn and had worked for the
Northwestern there before coming to
Evansville He is about % years old.
The mother Mrs. Walter Gollmar,
is the widow of former husband
named McCart. She is also related to
the late Col c. w. Hall, a circus man
who died years ago. Fred McCart "a
brother of Mrs. Main formerly was
employed in a BaraboO garage. His
grandfather McCart was of vaudeville
fame. Walter Gollmar was a member
Of the Gollmar circus firm and has
resided at Evansville for some time.
The Gollmar circus was sold some
years ago.
Authorities Notified
I, Fred Gilman, chief of police, notified
Rock county authorities Monday night,
who came to Evansville to hold an
examination, Sheriff Fred Beleym,
Acting District Attorney Charles
Pierce, and Coroner Whaley we're in
the party.
A medical examination of the body
was conducted by R. G. Smith and DR..
Clifford Purcell of Evansville, who
stated the woman had died instantly.
The coroner's examination was ad-
journed until Thursday afternoon at 2
o'clock.