The Monroe News-Star - Thomas J. Feibelman Shoots Himself Date: Dec. 1999 Submitted by: Lora Peppers ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Monroe News-Star Tuesday, March 22, 1910 Page 8, Column 1 TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. Prominent New Orleans Man Used Pistol on Himself New Orleans, March 21.-Thomas J. Feibelman, member of the well known mercantile firm of E. Feilbleman & Sons, and president of the Globe Coffee & Molasses Co., Ltd., sent a bullet through his brain in the lavatory in the rear of his store No.531 South Peters streets this afternoon about 3 o'clock. Feibleman was a man of about 48 or 49 years of age and a man of family. He had been a sufferer from nervous prostration and it is supposed that in a sudden fit of depression he ended his life. He went to lunch this afternoon apparently in good health and spirits. When he returned he immediately entered the lavatory. No one in the store seems to have heard shots. The discovery a Derringer pistol, with which the deed was done, lying out side the door of the lavatory, led to the finding of the body. His business associates say there was absolutely no reason other than mental trouble due to his physical condition, that could account for the suicide. Feibleman was highly successful in business and was well lik- (sic) by those who knew him. The ball entered the skull just above and behind the right ear. Coroner O'Hara viewed the body and gave permission for its removal. Has Relatives in Monroe. Thomas J. Feibelman, mentioned in the above special to the Shreveport Times from New Orleans, had several relatives in Monroe. He was a first cousin of Mrs. Sig Marx and was distantly related to Messrs. Jake and Alfred Feibleman. # # #