Melvin Lindsey Believed Suicide
Ex-Marine Apparently Used Pistol To Shoot Self In Yard Of Home
Melvin Lindsey Jr., 23, 519 Mill street, is believed to have committed suicide by shooting himself through the left lung with a German pistol in the yard of his home about 5 pm. yesterday, police reported this morning.
A suicide note was found in his pocketbook, officers said, but the content was not released.
Lindsey was taken to the Huntsville hospital shortly after 5 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 7:45 p.m. by Dr. E. V. Caldwell.
The gun was found at his feet after the shooting, police stated.
Lindsey was a factory worker. He served in the U. S. Marines during the war as a medical technician.
Officers recalled he attempted to kill himself last Fall in the county jail by cutting his legs with a razor blade.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Margie Lindsey; his father, R. Q. Lindsey; one brother, Garland Lindsey; five sisters. Mrs. Mavine Watts, Mrs. Ozell Lawler. Mrs. Ira Lou Bragg, Mrs. Helen Whitaker, and Miss Wanda Jean Lindsey.
Funeral services will be announced later by Laughlin-Service funeral home.
Originally published in The Huntsville Times on Monday, February 3, 1947 Huntsville, Alabama Page: Column:
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Ex-Marine Apparently Used Pistol To Shoot Self In Yard Of Home
Melvin Lindsey Jr., 23, 519 Mill street, is believed to have committed suicide by shooting himself through the left lung with a German pistol in the yard of his home about 5 pm. yesterday, police reported this morning.
A suicide note was found in his pocketbook, officers said, but the content was not released.
Lindsey was taken to the Huntsville hospital shortly after 5 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 7:45 p.m. by Dr. E. V. Caldwell.
The gun was found at his feet after the shooting, police stated.
Lindsey was a factory worker. He served in the U. S. Marines during the war as a medical technician.
Officers recalled he attempted to kill himself last Fall in the county jail by cutting his legs with a razor blade.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Margie Lindsey; his father, R. Q. Lindsey; one brother, Garland Lindsey; five sisters. Mrs. Mavine Watts, Mrs. Ozell Lawler. Mrs. Ira Lou Bragg, Mrs. Helen Whitaker, and Miss Wanda Jean Lindsey.
Funeral services will be announced later by Laughlin-Service funeral home.
Originally published in The Huntsville Times on Monday, February 3, 1947 Huntsville, Alabama Page: Column:
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Melvin Lindsey Believed Suicide
Ex-Marine Apparently Used Pistol To Shoot Self In Yard Of Home
Melvin Lindsey Jr., 23, 519 Mill street, is believed to have committed suicide by shooting himself through the left lung with a German pistol in the yard of his home about 5 pm. yesterday, police reported this morning.
A suicide note was found in his pocketbook, officers said, but the content was not released.
Lindsey was taken to the Huntsville hospital shortly after 5 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 7:45 p.m. by Dr. E. V. Caldwell.
The gun was found at his feet after the shooting, police stated.
Lindsey was a factory worker. He served in the U. S. Marines during the war as a medical technician.
Officers recalled he attempted to kill himself last Fall in the county jail by cutting his legs with a razor blade.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Margie Lindsey; his father, R. Q. Lindsey; one brother, Garland Lindsey; five sisters. Mrs. Mavine Watts, Mrs. Ozell Lawler. Mrs. Ira Lou Bragg, Mrs. Helen Whitaker, and Miss Wanda Jean Lindsey.
Funeral services will be announced later by Laughlin-Service funeral home.
Originally published in The Huntsville Times on Monday, February 3, 1947 Huntsville, Alabama Page: Column:
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Ex-Marine Apparently Used Pistol To Shoot Self In Yard Of Home
Melvin Lindsey Jr., 23, 519 Mill street, is believed to have committed suicide by shooting himself through the left lung with a German pistol in the yard of his home about 5 pm. yesterday, police reported this morning.
A suicide note was found in his pocketbook, officers said, but the content was not released.
Lindsey was taken to the Huntsville hospital shortly after 5 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 7:45 p.m. by Dr. E. V. Caldwell.
The gun was found at his feet after the shooting, police stated.
Lindsey was a factory worker. He served in the U. S. Marines during the war as a medical technician.
Officers recalled he attempted to kill himself last Fall in the county jail by cutting his legs with a razor blade.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Margie Lindsey; his father, R. Q. Lindsey; one brother, Garland Lindsey; five sisters. Mrs. Mavine Watts, Mrs. Ozell Lawler. Mrs. Ira Lou Bragg, Mrs. Helen Whitaker, and Miss Wanda Jean Lindsey.
Funeral services will be announced later by Laughlin-Service funeral home.
Originally published in The Huntsville Times on Monday, February 3, 1947 Huntsville, Alabama Page: Column:
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