The late Captain Paul Arthur Curtis offed himself in a NYC apartment during the last years of WW2- with his 1911-A1 Colt in .38 Super- one shot to the right temple- Bada Bing--Hemingway used a 12 bore Webley & Scott live bird gun in July 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho- put both muzzles in his mouth and tripped the front trigger, ventilating the roof of his mouth and spraying what was left of his cerebal cortex all over the foyer- Mary Welsh Hemingway, his fourth and last Frau- must have tossed her cookies big time when she saw the blood and gore all over the wall and ceiling- Suicide ran in the Hemingway clan, Don Ernesto's father, Dr. Clarence Edward Hemingway, shot himself in the head a la Paul Curtis- in Dec 1928- with his father's Colt Navy cap and ball pistol- after losing his ass in bad Florida real estate schemes- left a note, which neither Paul Curtis or Don Ernesto did-this was right about the era when Ernest became known as a force majeur in the literati world of the Roaring 20's- with his success in the sale of his novel "A Farewell to Arms"- his Mother, Grace Hemingway, a equal [censored] to Gertrude Stein, according to Hemingway, sent him the gun with a rather cryptic note about how "Ernest would want to have his Grandfather's Civil War pistol-not one word about the loss of her husband-
