The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-15
FETTERER
EN!DSLIFE,
WITH GUN
Music Teacher, Fires Bull.
let Through Right
Temple.

Commodore Peary Fetterer, 80
Ninth street, aged 81 years. music
teacher and curiosity shop keeper,
shot himself at 1870 o'clock this
afternoon in the living rooms back
of his small store room. He died
at 2:15 at St. Anthony's hospital.
Intoxication, during which he
magnified fancied wrongs, is be-
lieved to be the cause Of his act.
The family had just finished
luncheon, during which Fetterer
had been as talkative as custom
airy. He had reproached Mrs. Fet-
terer's mother, Mrs. Festina
Squires, Joliet, visiting them, about
her dislike for him, as she had
been quiet. - :
Shortly after they. finished the
meal, Mrs. Squires stepped out
side the house. Mr.. Fetterer pro-
duced a 80 calibre revolver from
some place, put the muzzle to his
right temple and. pulled the tris-
ger. He fell partly through q door
way into a rear room down one
step from the dining room. his
head and shoulders down into the
/ rear room, where blood gushing
from the wound, formed a large
pool in which he. lay.
The police were notified and the
Knox ambulance and DR.. Joseph
De Silva hurried to the house. The
physician found Fetterer yet alive
and breathing .gaspingly. Fettefel
was hurried to St. Anthony's hos
pital where he died ut z:15 o'clock.
Hsd Been Drinking.
| Fetterer had been drinking dur'
| ing the morning, his wife said. Lit
| tie other information could be OBJ.
I, tanned from her, as she was grie1
stricken.
I'VE were getting along al
right" she was able to say. =
don't know what on earth mad'
him do it"
! Their two weeks old son, Burne
/, Leone, lay near her in his crib. l
was for the infants coming tina
Mrs. Squires, the mother OF Mrs
Fetterer, had made the trip iron
Joliet several weeks ago.
Gave Violin Lessons.
Fetterer was 81 years old, an
lived in Davenport for some tim
prior to coming to Rock Islam
about three years ago. Before sell
! ing his property at S29 Fourth ave
nue., three months ago, he had op
Grated tree nursery, novelty an
grocery store, combined, for tw
years at that location.
Since then lie has operated tn
little novelty shop at 80 Mint
street, also tutoring pupils in tn
violin.
, Mrs. Squires believes that
! stroke Of paralysis which he sui
fered two years ago impaired hi
mental powers.
+ HE has mot been the sam
since she said. Last night be pre-
cured some liquor, brought
, home, and drank from the suppl
at intervals up to noon today.
Examination of the wound afte
his arrival at the hospital Shove
that the bullet had entered tn
! right temple, travelled upward
the skull and lodged under the Ski
at the center Of the Head.
Besides the infant son. Mr.. Fe
terer is survived by . daughte
Flossie, aged 2 years.
Upon heating the sound OF u
shot neighbors rushed to the Fe
tefer home. Clarence Anthony. q
Eighth street, found the revolvt
lying near the dying man. ~
: placed the weapon on the q
o stove. Three of the i've cartridg:
2 had been discharged, two probab
: 1t an earlier date.
81 Statements by neighbors AZ
d members of the family, includi.
n Mrs. SQuires herself, lead to Il
opinion that Fetterer was obsesss
with the idea that she disliked hir
Il He was talkative, she intimate
1 while she is taciturn. . woman
few words. He has accused b
l several times of wilfully refusfl
to be cordial to him, and also vi
gossiping outside >of the hou
about the affairs Of ME Fetterers.