Notes:
Newspaper dated June 2, 1910
Dudley E. Wilhelm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wilhelm, of
No 822 Berwick Street, South Easton, committed suicide on
Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at his home by shooting himself in the
head with a revolver. He had just been served with a warrant
on a charge preferred by a South Easton girl and despondency
over his arrest led him to commit the rash act.
Wilhelm, who was 19 years of age, was employed in the Lehigh
Valley erecting shops. He worked all day on Tuesday and was
eating supper, when Constable James Rogers knocked at the
dining room door and was admitted. He had a warrant for yhoung
Wilhelm's arrest on a charge preferred by Miss Jennie Fahls,
daughter of Mrs. William Hank.
The constable proceeded to read the warrant to Wilhelm and
asked the young man to come with him. Wilhelm said he would
like to change his clothes and the officer gave his consent.
Wilhelm then went up stairs to his father's room and asked
the latter to go his bail. Mr. Wilhelm refused and the constable
told Dudley to come on that he (Rogers) would find bail for
him. Dudley then took a 32-calibre revolver from a bureau
drawer and going to his own room fired a bullet into his
right temple. Death followed in about ten minutes.
Dr. W. A. Eynon, who was at the home of the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Eynon, at 818 Berwick Street, was the first
to respond to Mrs. Wilhelm's call for assistance. He went
up stairs and found Dudley's body on the floor of his bedroom.
From the location of the wound, Dr. Eynon saw that Wilhelm
was beyond medical aid. He summoned Drs. E. W. Richards and
A. H. R. Guiley, but Wilhelm passed away just as the two
physicians were coming up the stairs.
Besides his parents, Wilhelm is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Frank Brink of Centre Street, and Irma, living at home.
The deceased was a popular young man and his untimely end
caused many expressions of regret among those who knew him
and were daily thrown into contact with him.
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