The Tragic End of Arthur Hislop

Arthur B. Hislop blew his brains out in a chicken house near his residence at Tekoa at an early hour Monday morning. The shot was from a bulldog revolver and entered the right temple. It passed straight through his head and lodged beneath the skin of the left temple. Death was no doubt instantaneous. The gruesome discovery of the body was made by the suicide's wife an hour or two after the deed. Mrs. Hislop was satisfied that her husband suicided. The pistol with which it was done was one bought by him for her as protection against tramps. No one except he and herself knew where it was kept. The lady says her husband was some years ago badly injured in a railroad wreck, and that since that accident he had often suffered with severe pains in his head. Throughout the night previous to his suicide the man had complained of severe pains. At an early hour Monday morning Mrs. Hislop was suddenly awakened from a sound sleep and found her husband standing beside her bed. He said nothing, however, and she again fell asleep. She knew nothing more of him until her finding of his body some time later. She now thinks she was aroused from sleep by her husband kissing her.