Frank Timmerman
Kentucky Post, Friday, 17 March 1905, page 5
MYSTERY CLEARED UP
The mystery surrounding the death of Frank Timmerman of Newport,
an account of which was published yesterday in The Post yesterday, has been
cleared up. A disposition on the part of the children of Timmerman to suppress
the fact that he caused his own death mystified the authorities. The
investigation of the death by Coroner Higgins and Dr. Joseph Back, who had been
Timmerman's regular physician, showed that his death was caused by a bullet
wound in the head made by a 22-caliber revolver. The two children, Edna and
Frank, at first denied that they had seen any revolver or any other weapon with
which their father might have taken his life, but later both admitted that when
they first saw him, he had a revolver clutched in his right hand.
The daughter also admitted that she had taken the weapon away to conceal evidence of suicide. The deceased was a widower and leaves three children, two daughters and one son. He had often made threats to end his life because of continued illness. It was learned that he asked Dr. Black for some chloroform with which to end his sufferings. He was to undergo an operation for Brights disease within a few days and it is thought that this my have hastened his determination to take his life. A verdict of suicide was rendered by Coroner Higgins.