STARK COUNTY OHIO - OBIT:  MONNOT, Frank (d. 1893)
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TOOK HIS OWN LIFE
FRANK MONNOT LEVELS A GUN AT HIS BREAST WHICH HE FIRES OFF,                   
CAUSING INSTANT DEATH

     This morning at about seven o'clock, Frank Monnot, living about a mile 
and a half from town, commited suicide by shooting himself through the breast 
with a gun. It was after breakfast that his wife went out to do a few chores 
around, leaving her husband, who has been in rather poor health for some 
time, in the house. On her return, she found her husband stretched out on a 
lounge, his face very white, his shirt front open, and a very large bloody 
spot upon his chest. Becoming thoroughly frightened, she ran to a neighbor 
who resides just across the road, and asked him to go back with her to the 
house, as her husband was lying so quiet and looked so strange that she was 
afraid he was dead. The neighbor, who is a cousin of the deceased, returned 
with Mrs. Monnot to the house where a terrible sight met their eyes. On his 
back, on a lounge, his coat and vest, boot and stocking of the right foot 
removed, chest bare with a hole as big as a hand torn in the region over the 
heart, lay the remains of Frank Monnot. The wearing apparel which he had 
removed previous to taking the fatal step was lying on the floor near the 
foot of the lounge. The gun lay on the floor aside the lounge, and it would 
appear from the position of the gun and his bare right foot, that he had 
discharged the gun by placing his toe upon the trigger, with the muzzle to 
his heart, and likely occupying a sitting position, and as he fell back the 
gun dropped to one side in the position found. No reason can be given for the 
horrible act, except it be that he had been unwell for a long time, and 
constant brooding over his sickness likely affected his mind and in a fit of 
mental derangement he committed the act. 
Louisville Herald      Date of death   15 Feb. 1893      Submitted by Anita