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From: Lisa Perry <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Wilcox
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:21:15 -0500

Undated article; original source unknown. Extracted from the newspaper
article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of Madison,
Missouri.



G.W. Wilcox Commits Suicide.



"Last Wednesday afternoon about 2:30 o'clock, G.W. Wilcox seated himself
in a chair in front of a small mirror in his office and fired a bullet
into his brain, death resulting instantly. Dr. Bassett, whose office is
in an adjoining room heard the report, but thought it was the falling or
breaking of a plank by some carpenters who were working in Mrs. Hayden's
millinery store across the hall and so paid no attention to it, until,
on stepping into the hall for a few minutes and then coming back into
his office, smelled powder smoke. Instantly he opened the door leading
into Wilcox's office and found him sitting upright in his chair, the
blood trickling down the side of his face from a bullet side of his face
from a bullet hole just above the right ear, his hands resting on the
arms of the chair and the pistol lying on the floor between his feet.
Thinking from the position that life yet remained Dr. Carver was sent
for, but life was extinct, the end coming so quickly after the shot was
fired that the muscles had not even relaxed, which accounted for him
remaining in a sitting position. The body was at once taken to his
home, where the wife, almost crazed by horror of the tragedy, awaited
his coming. Only a short time before he committed the deed, he had
phoned her that he was not coming home to dinner but that he 'would be
there after awhile.' (Unable to read next line.) Corwine on Friday
morning after which the Masons took charge of the remains and he was
buried with Masonic honors.

The only enemy that George Wilcox had was himself. For years he fought
against an inherited appetite, occasionally gaining the victory, but
finally going down in defeat. There was never a kinder hearted man than
he was. Good to all, always trying as best he could in his own way to
help some body, he was especially kind to little children. Perhaps
losing his own boy, his only child, who died when just arriving at
manhood's estate, made him live more and have a deeper sympathy for
other young men. No citizens of Madison but what tells a personal loss
in the death of George Wilcox, and the whole town is sad and depressed
over the manner of his going."



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