Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-04-29
GARAGE MANAGER
TAKES OWN LIFE
NORTH OF CITY
Stanley j. Palubicki Found
Dead in Automobile
Tuesday

Ill one Vi tue HOSl tragic Idldl-
tiles reported in our community for
many years, Stanley j. Palubecki,
~37-year-old garage owner, met death
at his own hands Monday.
Leaving behind him a carefully
penciled message TO his devoted
wife, a tender and apologize ex-
preston of affection for his aged
parents and instructions for
Strengthening out a tangled web Of
financial obligations. the youthful
citizen sought respite from a torn
and harassed mind in death.
"Stan," as he was best known by
hundreds of friends who had seer
him grow from a lad of seven to
manhood in P%lentywood, left the
city in his car Monday morning to
take machinery repairs to his par
ents' farm north of town. also to
make a trip to outlook. Inasmuch
as he had expressed an intention of
possibly going to Wolf Point in the
afternoon, no concern was aroused
on his failure to return to the ga
rage or to appear the following
morning.
c. n. Mccoy, living on a farm
eight miles northwest Of Plenty
wood, had noticed a car moving
about on the Palubicki farm, ad-
joining, Monday afternoon. The fol-
lowing day, when the car was
standing in the same location, Mr..
Mccoy finally decided to investigate
and upon going to the automobile,
found the lifeless form of young
Palubicki slumped behind the
wheel.
The sheriff. Hans Madsen. and
coroner. Martin Nelson, were inn
mediately notified. A pint bottle,
half-flled with s%trychnine, was ly-
ing in the car, giving mute evidence
of the means employed by the dis
tracted man to bring certain and
sudden end to his mental anguish.
recause of this evidence and he
note found in his possession, cor
oner Nelson held unnecessary the
calling of any official investigation
by a jury.
Both from information contained
in the note he left, as well as that
confided to some of his closest
friends, the only motive known for
Palubicki's act was financial diff
culties and his inability to secure
further credit in the purchase of
new cars for delivery TO customers
with whom negotiations had already
been completed. IL have cried for
two days" he frantically wrote,
land this is the only way out"
Mrs. Palubicki, known by a host
of Plentywood friends as Cora Fris-
void, who was married to Stanley In
1888, was in Eau Claire, Wis, at
the time of the heartbreaking in
cident. where she had been visiting
the past month with her parents.
Sc had also made a visit with par
ents of her husband in Milwaukee,
where they have resided the past
two years with another son DR..
Theodore Palubicki.
Funeral Arrangements Pending
Funeral arrangements are pend
Ing the arrival of relatives. His wife
was to arrive this morning and his
mother and father and brother The
odore left Milwaukee by car Tues
day evening. They are expected here
this morning.
Three sisters. living n California,
will arrive in Plentywood Saturday.
Obituary
Stanley j. Palubicki was born at
Yorkton, Sask., Canada. March 20.
1901. When a lad he moved with
his parents to Perham, Mimi. and
in 1916 came to Montana with his
parents, settling northwest of Plen-
tywood.
He attended the Plentywood high
school and upon completion of his
high school studies entered st.
Johns college at st. Cloud, Mimi.
In 1927 he became proprietor and
co-owner of Kavon's garage here.
The garage was under his manage
ment until the time of his death.
On oct. rs, 1898, he was united
N marriage to Cora Frisvold, of
Eau Claire. Wis.
Relatives who survive are his
wife, mother and father, Mr.. and
Airs. NJ. j. Palubicki; a brother, DR..
Theo. Palubicki, all of Milwaukee,
Wis; four sisters, Mary, Seattle.
Wash, Rose, Piedmont, Calf, Ell
eano and Julia, Oakland, Calf.