From The Buffalo Times, Buffalo, New York, Dec. 12, 1910, pg. 4
May Die From Wound
Martin Holbrook Shot Under the Heart - Well Known
Cattaraugus, Dec. 12 - Martin Holbrook, a well known man of Otto, three miles from this place, is hovering between life and death from a revolver wound under the heart.
Holbrook is about 50 years of age and has been well to do. During the strife between the John C. McMahon and United Natural Gas Co., interests when gas was struck here about ten months ago, Holbrook became a heavy buyer of leases for the McMahon interests. The field where he bought leases has not promised well.
Reports this morning are that Holbrook is still alive with chances about even for recovery. He is popular an dextremely well liked and has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He is married and the father of a large family of children.
From The Buffalo Courier, Buffalo, New York, Dec. 17, 1910, pg. 7
Gun to Shoot Owl is Turned on Self
Illness and Financial Worries Cause of Otto Man's Suicidal Act
Martin F. Holbrook is at the Point of Death
Salamanca, N. Y., Dec 16 - Martin F. Holbrook, one of the most prominent men of the town of Otto lies at the point of death in his home in that village as the result of an attempt to commit suicide the first of the wekk when he shot himself in the breast near the heart. Some of the physicians who have been called in consultation say that he has a chance for recovery, others that they do not see how he can live.
Mr. Holbrook it is said, had been suffering from melancholia induced by financial worries and his attempt to end his life was due to that condition. He is conscious but apparently has no desire to live.
On the day of the shooting Mr. Holbrook was about the house as usual during the day and in the afternoon walked to the home of a friend and borrowed a revolver, saying that he wanted to shoot an owl that had taken up an abiding place in his barn. The revolver was given him and he returned home and went to the barn. It was then 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Some time passed and Mrs. Holbrook wondered what kept her husband so long. Finally she went to the barn and found him lying on a pile of hay on the floor. In the dusk she did not see that he was wounded and enquired if he were ill. He replied in the negative. Mrs. Holbrook then went to his side and found that he had shot himself. Doctors were summoned and Mr. Holbrook was carried into the house.
May Die From Wound
Martin Holbrook Shot Under the Heart - Well Known
Cattaraugus, Dec. 12 - Martin Holbrook, a well known man of Otto, three miles from this place, is hovering between life and death from a revolver wound under the heart.
Holbrook is about 50 years of age and has been well to do. During the strife between the John C. McMahon and United Natural Gas Co., interests when gas was struck here about ten months ago, Holbrook became a heavy buyer of leases for the McMahon interests. The field where he bought leases has not promised well.
Reports this morning are that Holbrook is still alive with chances about even for recovery. He is popular an dextremely well liked and has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He is married and the father of a large family of children.
From The Buffalo Courier, Buffalo, New York, Dec. 17, 1910, pg. 7
Gun to Shoot Owl is Turned on Self
Illness and Financial Worries Cause of Otto Man's Suicidal Act
Martin F. Holbrook is at the Point of Death
Salamanca, N. Y., Dec 16 - Martin F. Holbrook, one of the most prominent men of the town of Otto lies at the point of death in his home in that village as the result of an attempt to commit suicide the first of the wekk when he shot himself in the breast near the heart. Some of the physicians who have been called in consultation say that he has a chance for recovery, others that they do not see how he can live.
Mr. Holbrook it is said, had been suffering from melancholia induced by financial worries and his attempt to end his life was due to that condition. He is conscious but apparently has no desire to live.
On the day of the shooting Mr. Holbrook was about the house as usual during the day and in the afternoon walked to the home of a friend and borrowed a revolver, saying that he wanted to shoot an owl that had taken up an abiding place in his barn. The revolver was given him and he returned home and went to the barn. It was then 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Some time passed and Mrs. Holbrook wondered what kept her husband so long. Finally she went to the barn and found him lying on a pile of hay on the floor. In the dusk she did not see that he was wounded and enquired if he were ill. He replied in the negative. Mrs. Holbrook then went to his side and found that he had shot himself. Doctors were summoned and Mr. Holbrook was carried into the house.
From The Buffalo Times, Buffalo, New York, Dec. 12, 1910, pg. 4
May Die From Wound
Martin Holbrook Shot Under the Heart - Well Known
Cattaraugus, Dec. 12 - Martin Holbrook, a well known man of Otto, three miles from this place, is hovering between life and death from a revolver wound under the heart.
Holbrook is about 50 years of age and has been well to do. During the strife between the John C. McMahon and United Natural Gas Co., interests when gas was struck here about ten months ago, Holbrook became a heavy buyer of leases for the McMahon interests. The field where he bought leases has not promised well.
Reports this morning are that Holbrook is still alive with chances about even for recovery. He is popular an dextremely well liked and has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He is married and the father of a large family of children.
From The Buffalo Courier, Buffalo, New York, Dec. 17, 1910, pg. 7
Gun to Shoot Owl is Turned on Self
Illness and Financial Worries Cause of Otto Man's Suicidal Act
Martin F. Holbrook is at the Point of Death
Salamanca, N. Y., Dec 16 - Martin F. Holbrook, one of the most prominent men of the town of Otto lies at the point of death in his home in that village as the result of an attempt to commit suicide the first of the wekk when he shot himself in the breast near the heart. Some of the physicians who have been called in consultation say that he has a chance for recovery, others that they do not see how he can live.
Mr. Holbrook it is said, had been suffering from melancholia induced by financial worries and his attempt to end his life was due to that condition. He is conscious but apparently has no desire to live.
On the day of the shooting Mr. Holbrook was about the house as usual during the day and in the afternoon walked to the home of a friend and borrowed a revolver, saying that he wanted to shoot an owl that had taken up an abiding place in his barn. The revolver was given him and he returned home and went to the barn. It was then 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Some time passed and Mrs. Holbrook wondered what kept her husband so long. Finally she went to the barn and found him lying on a pile of hay on the floor. In the dusk she did not see that he was wounded and enquired if he were ill. He replied in the negative. Mrs. Holbrook then went to his side and found that he had shot himself. Doctors were summoned and Mr. Holbrook was carried into the house.
May Die From Wound
Martin Holbrook Shot Under the Heart - Well Known
Cattaraugus, Dec. 12 - Martin Holbrook, a well known man of Otto, three miles from this place, is hovering between life and death from a revolver wound under the heart.
Holbrook is about 50 years of age and has been well to do. During the strife between the John C. McMahon and United Natural Gas Co., interests when gas was struck here about ten months ago, Holbrook became a heavy buyer of leases for the McMahon interests. The field where he bought leases has not promised well.
Reports this morning are that Holbrook is still alive with chances about even for recovery. He is popular an dextremely well liked and has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He is married and the father of a large family of children.
From The Buffalo Courier, Buffalo, New York, Dec. 17, 1910, pg. 7
Gun to Shoot Owl is Turned on Self
Illness and Financial Worries Cause of Otto Man's Suicidal Act
Martin F. Holbrook is at the Point of Death
Salamanca, N. Y., Dec 16 - Martin F. Holbrook, one of the most prominent men of the town of Otto lies at the point of death in his home in that village as the result of an attempt to commit suicide the first of the wekk when he shot himself in the breast near the heart. Some of the physicians who have been called in consultation say that he has a chance for recovery, others that they do not see how he can live.
Mr. Holbrook it is said, had been suffering from melancholia induced by financial worries and his attempt to end his life was due to that condition. He is conscious but apparently has no desire to live.
On the day of the shooting Mr. Holbrook was about the house as usual during the day and in the afternoon walked to the home of a friend and borrowed a revolver, saying that he wanted to shoot an owl that had taken up an abiding place in his barn. The revolver was given him and he returned home and went to the barn. It was then 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Some time passed and Mrs. Holbrook wondered what kept her husband so long. Finally she went to the barn and found him lying on a pile of hay on the floor. In the dusk she did not see that he was wounded and enquired if he were ill. He replied in the negative. Mrs. Holbrook then went to his side and found that he had shot himself. Doctors were summoned and Mr. Holbrook was carried into the house.
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