SUICIDE AT THE COUNTY CAPITAL JOHN S. TROWBRIDGE KILLSHIMSELF IN A FIT OF TEMPORARY INSANITY.
WAS A BROTHER OF WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE, TREASURER OF CARROLL COUNTY.
From The Carroll Sentinel.
The National house in this city was the scene of a terrible tragedy on Sunday, when John Trowbridge, brother of the county treasurer, discharged the contents of a revolver in his brain, resulting in his instant death. The body was discovered, at about nine o'clock in the evening and a coroner's jury was summoned, bringing out the following facts:

One witness said that he roomed across the hall and that after he heard of the finding of the body he remembered of having heard something that sounded like a pistol shot at about 11 o'clock Sunday forenoon, but paid no attention to it. This is the only evidence introduced to show what time the shot was fired. Joseph Hutter, proprietor of the hotel, testified that he called Mr. Trowbridge for breakfast in the morning, but he did not come down. Shortly afterward Hutter and his wife went to the country and did not return until evening. During the day the girls tried to enter the room to do their chamber work, but the door was locked. Mr. Hutter wanted to put some one in the room for the night and went up at about 9 o'clock to arrange for this. He could not open the door and climbed up and looked in through the transom. Seeing a body lying partly on the floor and leaning against the bed, he started at once for the sheriff, knowing something was wrong. Sheriff Nestle, the marshal and night watchman returned with him to the hotel and the sheriff climbed through the transom. Unlocking the door, the others entered and found that the unfortunate man had long before breathed his last. A 32-calibre revolver was lying on the floor, partly under him and the bullet that had ended his existence had entered the right temple, passed through head and was lodged just under the skin on the opposite side. Death must have been almost instantaneous. The coroner was called, and at about o'clock on Sunday night he summoned a jury. After hearing the evidence the jury found that "the deceased came to his death from a revolver shot fired by his own hand."

The deceased was 47 years of age, had been married 21 years, and leaves a wife and five children to mourn his dreadful act. The children are all boys, the eldest being 21 and the youngest 8 years of age.

For a long time the family has known that he was subject to temporary fits of abstraction, and it was undoubtedly while suffering that he killed himself. Only last week his brother consulted with physicians and the insane commission as to the advisability of placing him in an asylum. His wife however, dreaded this thought, so nothing was done. A short time ago he mounted a pony, which belonged to one of his sons, and rode away, being gone five days. He returned without the pony, and said that he had given it to some children. Mr. William Trowbridge has looked after his unfortunate brother and his family for 20 years past. The bereaved wife is a noble, hardworking woman, and the boys are bright and capable.