Darrow, Chas. died 1891

DARROW

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 2/2/2022 at 09:03:40

Elkader Register, Thur., 5 Nov. 1891. Strawberry Point column.

Saturday night Chas. Darrow a young married man of this place about (looks like 36 or 38) years of age committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. Domestic trouble coupled with too strong a love for liquor was the cause. The shooting occurred as near as be learned at half past ten in the evening and the testimony given at the coroner's inquest held here yesterday shows that Darrow and his wife together with a nephew staying with them went home from town about ten o'clock. Darrow being somewhat under the influence of liquor. After reaching home all parties retired for the night when it appears that Darrow and his wife had a quarrel, ending in his getting out of bed and going for the revolver saying at the same time that he was going to shoot himself, his wife endeavored to get possession of the revolver but failed and fearing violence at his hands ran out of the front door to the side of the house where she entered the cellar through the window remaining there for nearly an hour until after the shooting and until parties from town appeared. The nephew, a young man about 20 years, who has been living with them at intervals for the past six years, ran out of the back door down through the garden taking in two barbed wire fences and after an absence of about fifteen minutes came back to the house and called for Mrs. Darrow. She answered him from the cellar and told him to get the night watch as she was afraid Charley had shot himself. He hastily dressed himself and notified the night watch, who accompanied by several other parties found Darrow dead in the barn just at the rear of the house with a bullet wound in the right temple and the examining physicians testimony before the coroner was that the revolver must have been placed directly against the temple, death being instantaneous.