Arthur Elwood Loos
Kentucky Post, Monday, 10 July 1944, page 1
A suicide verdict was given Monday by Acting Coroner Ralph A Heringhaus in the death of Arthur E Loos, 55 year old war plant worker, who fired a bullet into his right temple late Saturday after assaulting his wife, Minnie in their home at 21 W Sixth street, Newport. Mr. Loos died Sunday at Speers Hospital attaches reported the condition of Mrs. Loos as fair. She sustained a possible skull francture and multiple bruises when attacked with a blackjack and a frying pan by her husband.
Mrs. Loos, Detectives Dave Donnelly and Al Bauermeister reported, ran into the rear yard and collapsed. Neighbors hearing her screams summoned police. Mr. Loos, after assaulting his wife, then walked into a bedroom and fired a shot from a .32 caliber revolver into this head. The bullet emerged from the top of his head. Police reported the victim engaged in a domestic quarrel with his wife and the assault and fatal shooting followed. Police have been unable to learn details of the argument becasue of the condition of Mrs. Loos.
Dr. Heringhaus said he learned Mrs. Loos, a veteran of World War I, had been despondent over ill health. He worked in a Cincinnati war plant and he and his wife also conducted a rooming house at the Sixth street address. Besides his widow, Mr. Loos is survived by one brother, Clarence, Newport, and three sisters, Mrs. Lucille Beck, Cincinnati and Mrs. Stella Steward and Mrs. Luelle Gould, both of Newport. A former employee of the Diakel Chemical Co. Cincinnati, he leaves Carl Beck, College Hill, one niece, one nephew and two grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday for Mr. Loos at the Dobbling funeral home, Bellevue. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.