I don't think he's your guy. He was a plumber
The Brooklyn Citizen
Brooklyn, New York
Thursday, August 01, 1918
Page 2
SHOOTS SELF IN CELLAR OF HOME
Plumber Quits Family Gathering to End His Life.
Telling his children that he was going down into the cellar for some tools last evening. George F. Reid, a plumber, 40 years old, of 1807 Avenue W, committed suicide by shooting himself through the right side of the head with a .38-calibre revolver. Reid's wife was visiting friends last evening, and their three children, George, 15; Wilson. 13, and Violet, 8, together with their father, were seated around a table when be said that he was going downstairs. A few minutes later the children were startled by the report of a revolver, and the eldest boy running into the cellar found hit father lying on the cement floor with an army pistol, that he had used In the Spanish-American War, alongside him. The screams of the children brought neighbors, who summoned Ambulance Surgeon Levine, of the Coney Island Hospital. He pronounced Reid dead. Reid had been a plumber in the Aheeptheid Bay section for the past ten years, and for a short time in 1007 was a member of the New York Fire Department. He had been ill for the pest month, and it is believed that this affected hit mind.
