Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-12-07
|U1S ARTERY
y ACCIDENT;
SELF
R. Hanson, City Meat Mar
|ket Proprietor, Telephones
flor Physician After Mishap
Relief He Would Bleed to
death. Butcher Chooses
Bullet Route; Help Near

fter accidently slashing an artery
his left wrist with a razor-edged
;fe while cutting meat in the City
eat market, Charles R. Hanson, At
srs old. proprietor of the market,
besdav morning shortly after s
{elock. fired through his head a bull
from a 32-caliber automatic re-
liver, and died instantly.
| Mr. Hanson. who assumed charge
the market on December l, was
ktting steak when the accident
kcurred. He had cut the steak to the
bne, ready for saving, when the
hife slipped, inficting a deep cash
| his wrist, and completely severing
e artery. He was alone when the
kcident occurred.
CALLS DOCTOR BY PHONE
With blood gushing from the
bound. Mr.. Hanson went to the tele-
hone and called the residence of DR..
S. Stockton, saying he had cut
wrist, and summoning the doctor
Immediately. Mr.. Hanson then called
IS wife, who was at the family resi-
ence on Hall street, telling her of
De accident.
From the telephone, was a trail of
eood to a sink, in a rear room of the
|arket, indicating Mr.. Hanson had
Pne to the sink and applied cold
later to the wound, hoping to stop
be flow of blood. From the sink,
be sanguinary trail led to market Of
Zee. In a compartment above the
|fice desk, the revolver was kept in
drawer.
Blood spattered on the drawer in
ieated the wound was bleeding pro-
uSely when Mr.. Hanson reached for
be gun and fred the shot which, it
! declared, ended his life. His
ody was found on the office floor.
DR.. Stockton, who imfediately he
Tas notified of the accident, rushed
rom his home to the market, was a
lock from the market when he heard
he shot, but a moment before the
hysician reached the shop, Mr.. Han
ms son, Kenneth, had arrived.
Then DR.. Stockton entered the mar
ct, MIR. Hanson was gasping his last.
he bullet entered the mans right
nipple, and came out the left side of
IS head.
SHOT TO END SUFFERING
Greatly weakened by loss of blood
ON the wound in his wrist, Mr..
anSon is believed, because of the
'avy flow of blood, to have been Of
e opinion the injury was of such
i1ure that it would be only a few
l1utes until he would bleed to death,
"a chose death by a bullet instead.
ME the wound was serious, it was
united out that it probably would not
we proven fatal, for help was near.
rlOrs.
araglc death of Mr.. Hanson cast a
Il OF gloom over the city. The fam
is well known and popular here.
MI; Hanson had been. employed in
q atty market at various times
ct period of several years. For
LAST few months, he had been in
: market, and only week before
qulred the business under lease from
Hn Callan, owner of the market.
BORN IN CALIFORNIA
Mr. Hanson was born in San Fran
'cO' cal, on Aug. 16, 1875, and when
months old came with his parents
lided. "0 ""u 'in'o
TOT FOR many years, Mr.. Hanson was a
,mer on Camas Prairie, and in 1918
I ~ with his family to Grange
him are his widow, Mrs.
'n Hanson, two sons, Claire and
'n na' and three brothers, w. G.l
,nsoh' Grangeville; Henry Hanson,
VISION and George Hanson, Koos-
uaeral services were held Thursday
lung at II in the Maugg pariors,
= D were largely attended. The Rev.
o y, Martin, pastor of the Federated
w. nVl' ofleiated. Burial was in Fair
Nv Cemetery