Multnomah County OR Archives News.....Leaves His Bride Alone August 4, 1904
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Morning Oregonian August 4, 1904
Victor Goodman,Six Weeks Married,Committs Suicide
Shoots Himself In Head With Revolver While Mentally Deranged- Operation Was 
Imminent
Victor Goodman,a barkeeper of good habits,shot himself in the back of the head 
in the bathroom at the Castle lodging house, 372 Washington street, at 7:30 
yesterday morning with a 38 caliber revolver. He had been married six weeks 
and had no domestic troubles.The cause for the act,given by his brother,Leon 
Goodman,and his former employer,William Winters,of the Log Cabin Saloon,is 
mental derangement incidental to an elevator aacident in San Fransisco four 
years ago. It was necessary for him to have two operations since that time and 
a third was apparently imminent when he killed himself.He was a native of San 
Fransisco and was 25 years old.
The wife of only six weeks standing,Mrs.Minnie Goodman,heard the shot shortly 
after her husband left the room yesterday morning,and rushing to the bathroom 
found him lying in his blood.Leon Goodman,coming from the floor above,led the 
woman away and arousing the house soon had the patrol wagon as the handiest 
conveyance to carry the wounded and unconscious man to the St.Vincent's 
Hospital where Dr.A.Tilzer and Dr.J.D.Sternberg attended him until his death.
The suicide was premeditated,for the shot fired from a revolver taken from the 
saloon the night before.His conduct of late has been noticeably nervous and 
though he has been affable in manner as usual,he was apparently weighed down 
with a burden of despair which caused him to take his life deliberately.
William Winters said yesterday that Goodman had spoken to him several times 
recently of having been unable to sleep and of not feeling capable of work.He 
was more than usually nervous Tuesday afternoon and went home early,taking 
with him the revolver which ordinarily lay behind the bar,as discovered 
afterward.
Goodman's body was removed to the morgue yesterday afternoon where at the 
autopsy it was ascertained that the bullet had entered the back of the head 
and lodged in the brain.
Leon Goodman was the only relative of the dead man living in Portland.He had 
another brother,J.Goodman,in Walla Walla,and two brothers living with his 
parents,Mr. and Mrs. A.Goodman,in New York.
That Victor Goodman,the bartender,who committed suicide yesterday morning was 
a good fellow,is vouched for by the fact that the newsboys call him their 
friend,and hearing what he had done sent a note of condolence and a bouquet of 
flowers to his widows.

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