Martin H. Hellerich

The Malone Farmer, January 19, 1910

Martin H. Hellerich, 69 years of age, shot himself in the forehead with suicidal intent in his cigar factory at Saranac Lake Saturday afternoon. He was found still alive but frozen to the floor in a pool of blood Sunday morning. Physicians revived him and he gave family troubles as the cause of his act. He came to Saranac Lake ten years ago and has a wife and three married children in Syracuse. He was reticent about his past, and was known as "Old Pop" to his customers. The bullet did not penetrate the brain but pressed a part of the skull against the cerebral artery and a hemorrhage of the brain was feared if it should be removed. The revolver had been held so close that his forehead was burned and blackened by the powder.

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Chateaugay Record and Franklin County Democrat, January 21, 1910

Martin H. Hellerich, a cigarmaker aged 60 years, attempted suicide by shooting on Saturday at Saranac Lake. Hellerich lived alone, and neighbors noting his absence, informed the police, who broke into his apartment Sunday morning and found him frozen to the floor in a pool of blood which had dripped from a gunshot wound in the forehead. Physicians revived him so that he was able to talk and he stated that [he] had attempted suicide on account of family troubles.