110 YEARS AGO: John Paddock, aged about 54 years, a carpenter by trade, living at 63 Gilbert Street, where he conducted a lodging house for railroad men, took his own life about 7 o’clock Tuesday morning by shooting himself twice in the head with a .32 caliber revolver. Paddock was alone in the house at the time. When Paddock’s wife, accompanied by Mrs. Edward Aylsworth, a neighbor, entered after hearing the shots, he was found lying on the floor of the kitchen. Paddock had been a heavy drinker for many years and when under the influence of liquor often pounded and otherwise abused his wife. Monday afternoon, after becoming intoxicated, he went home and unmercifully pounded and beat his wife, blackening her eyes, tearing her ear and bruising her body. Mrs. Paddock has always been a hardworking woman, slaving night and day for the man who repaid her with curses and beatings and no one blames her. May 1915