OBIT: Eugene EISLER, 1941, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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EUGENE EISLER

Ends Romance with .22 Bullet
Eugene Eisler's Dead Body Found on Porch At Girl Friend's Home

  Eugene Eisler, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Eisler of Somerset, killed 
himself with a .22 calibre rifle on the front porch of the Clark Younkin home 
just outside the Rockwood borough limits, at one o'clock Friday morning.  
Disappointment in love and ill health is said to be responsible for the suicide.
  Officers investigating the case said young Eisler had been forbidden to come 
to the Younkin home to call on a daughter, Miss Eloise.  Among the contents of a 
suitcase, lying at the side of his dead body was a fireman's badge and whistle, 
and an envelope, addressed to no one, stating: "I wanted you to have this but 
not until I was dead."
  Young Eisler had just returned from a trip to Philadelphia early Thursday 
morning.  He discussed the trip with his family during the day and in the 
evening attended a movie.  Miss Eloise Younkin and a girl friend also attended 
the movie and talked with Eisler in the theatre but he did not accompany Miss 
Younkin to her home.
  He went to his home after the movies but again left at about 11 o'clock, at 
which time his father said, he noticed Eugene was carrying a suitcase.  
Presumably he was carrying his brother Charles' .22 caliber rifle in the 
suitcase, the weapon with which he ended his life.
  Mr. Younkin said his family had been in bed for some time when they were 
awakened by the report of a gun, and heard a thump on the front porch "as though 
it were falling down."  Quickly descending the steps, Younkin went out of the 
back door of the house, and called the help of a next door neighbor, A. C. 
Meyers, owner of a small store in Black Township.  Together the two men rounded 
the Younkin house and there found the body of Eisler on the porch.  Motor police 
at the Somerset substation were notified and an immediate investigation was 
begun.
  Coroner F. E. Sass of Boswell stated only one shot in a hundred, one in the 
same manner, would produce instant death.  The .22 caliber "short" had 
penetrated his brain through the right temple.
  Eugene Eisler was a son of Conrad and Minnie (Bittner) Eisler.  He is survived 
by his parents and by these brothers and sisters: Steward, Harvey, Russell, 
George and Charles Eisler, Mrs. Earl Wright and Dorothy Eisler, all of Somerset.
  The remains were prepared for burial at the Walter S. Hoffman Funeral Home, 
where services were conducted Sunday afternoon.  Interment was in Somerset 
County Memorial Park.

Meyersdale Republican, March 6, 1941