OBIT:  AMOS, Frank; 1908; Hastings, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 3 Jan 1908
Volume 42, Number 1


Suicide at Hastings! 
Frank Amos, After Breaking Pledge, is Filled with Remorse 
and Sends A Bullet Through His Head

"Dear Frank, behave yourself and I will bring the children 
home to spend Christmas with you."

The above is a brief extract of a letter written by Mrs. 
Frank Amos to her husband in Hastings.  Mrs. Amos had been 
visiting with her parents in Houtzdale, Clearfield County. 
Those words and the Christmas presents from his two little 
children was more than Mr. Amos could bear after thinking 
over what he had done wrong the past week or more and he 
sent a bullet through his head.  Instead of bringing her 
children home to spend Christmas with the husband and 
father, Mrs. Amos arrived at Hastings in company with her 
father, Thomas Martin, only to gaze on the cold face of the 
dead man.  Mrs. Amos did not bring along her two babies, 
one two-year-old and the other only one year.

Frank Amos was a suicide.  The finding of his dead body 
took place Christmas morning about 8 o'clock. The man had 
been missed on the streets by residents of the town and 
relatives inquired at the Martin household in Houtzdale if 
he was there. He was not.  An investigation followed, 
resulting in the discovery of his dead body.  Amos was last 
seen on Sunday and it is believed he killed himself that 
night.  Some one looked in the window on the first floor of 
his home Wednesday morning, saw his body lying in blood 
soaked bed clothing, the revolver in one hand, the empty 
bottles lying around him.  He had not undressed, but had 
pulled some of the bed clothing over his body.

Mr. Amos, who was a Frenchman, and about twenty-two years 
old, worked as a coal miner and a bar clerk. He drank 
heavily for a time but two months ago took the pledge for 
six months.  He broke his pledge, received the loving 
letter from his wife, his heart was filled with remorse and 
in this condition, he killed himself.