Tuesday April 21, 1931
Death Takes E. F. Hopkins in Marshall
Longview Man, Veteran T. and P. Conductor, Dies in Hospital

Eugene F. Hopkins, 65 years old, resident of Longview for several years and one of 
the oldest conductors of the Texas and Pacific railroad, died Monday night at 9:30 
o'clock at the Texas and Pacific hospital at Marshall from a gun shot wound in his 
head. 

Mr Hopkins stustained the gun shot wound early Monday morning at Mineola, Texas, 
when the call boy at a Mineola hotel went to Mr. Hopkins room to call him to go out 
on his run, he found the aged conductor lying on the bed, a revolver wound in his 
head and the weapon lying on the floor beside him.

The boy summoned help and Mr Hopkins was rushed to the Markham hospital in Longview 
where his condition was pronounced critical. After this wound was treated here, he 
was rushed to the Texas and Pacific hospital in Marshall, by the ambulance of the 
Welch Undertaking company.

At the Marshall hospital his condition grew steadily worse and early Monday night, 
his family here was notified that the end was near. His wife and children were at 
his bedside, when death came at 9:30 o'clock.

His home is at 106 North Sixth street in Longview. He is survived by his widow and 
two children, Eugene Junior, 18, and Mary 13. He is survived by two brothers of 
Denison, Texas, but no sisters.

The funeral services were to be held at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home of 
Mrs Jesse Cravens, 107 Sixth street, with Father L.L. Myers of the Catholic church 
officiating. Burial was to be in Grace Hill cemetery.