CARROLL, Hubert Allen - Putnam

KILLS SELF AFTER WRECKING CAR

Crawfordsville, Dec. 24 – Hubert Allen Carroll, 39, showed his wife how he could pull the trigger of a shotgun with his toe Sunday, then actually did it while his wife called for help, Coroner Fred Blix said. Blix issued a suicide verdict, saying he was told Carroll was worried about damage to his car in a Saturday accident. Carroll, who lived four miles south of here on State Road 43, returned home about 10:30 p.m. Saturday and was morose because he had had an accident and overturned his 1951 car, Mrs. Carroll said. He told his wife Sunday morning that she “had better call someone” because he “was going to leave her.” He then showed Mrs. Carroll how he would kill himself by pushing the gun trigger with a toe. While she was telephoning for help she heard a gun blast and found her husband dying of a shattered face. Carroll was a graduate of New Market high school and was a veteran of World war II. He served in the European theater of operations 22 months and since his discharge Jun 14, 1946, had been employed by the Ready-Mix Concrete company. Survivors besides his widow, formerly Dorothy F. Brown, are his mother, Mrs. Ladofka Carroll, and a brother, Byron, of Noblesvillle.