Suicide by Hanging
HOME-SICKNESS THE CAUSE
George Roos, JR. and Carl Roos, two boys, left their home in Germany and came to this country. George stopped a few months in Ohio. Carl came two years ago this summer with Mr. George Nagle, when he returned from a visit to his native land, and came to Canton, where in a short time his brother George followed him, and the two have been employed in Drake's barber shop.
In Germany, all young men must serve three years in the army and the parents of these boys preferred they should leave that country before they came of age to go into the army.
The absence of her boys, two steady, industrious, fine-looking young chaps, caused the mother to reach after them with a longing heart. She pined for the loved ones who were separated from her by the broad waters of the Atlantic.
There was yet another younger boy under the home roof. He in a few years would be taken from Mother and home and placed in the army, if they remained in the father's land. And so the father gathered his family, crossed the waters, and joined his oldest boys in Canton.
They have lived here for about thirteen months. The youngest son is employed at Swearingen's east side store, and the other boys have good-paying engagements with George Drake. Their earnings are not squandered or frittered away in foolishness, but every week, according to their early training in the father country, are handed to their father.
He has not succeeded in securing employment since he came here, yet the family has been and is in comfortable circumstances.
But the failure of Mr. Roos to secure employment preyed upon the mind of his wife and she dwelt upon the possibility of their coming to want. She could not speak English and therefore there were but few persons here with whom she could associate and converse.
She became homesick for old scenes, old companions, and old ties until her mind became unbalanced and she felt life was too great a burden for her. She blamed herself for the family coming to this country and brooded over her imaginary troubles.
Sunday morning, last, the people of this city were startled by the announcement that sometime between one and four o'clock on that morning Mrs. Roos committed suicide by hanging herself in the small barn on the lot on which the family resided, on Cole Street, second house west of the old woolen mill property.
Her remains were buried in Greenwood Cemetery Monday afternoon, Rev. A. R. Mathes officiating. Mrs. [Mary] Roos was 48 years old.
An inquest was held by Esq. Stearns Sunday morning, at the residence of Mr. George Roos, with the following persons in the jurymen: Isaac A. Johnson; Edward Sanford, D. H. Palmer, Wm. Donn, Jr., H. W. Sebree, J. B. Fleming.
After hearing the evidence the jury rendered a verdict that Mrs. Mary Roos came to her death by voluntary suicide by hanging herself with a rope fastened to a post in a barn on George Roos's lot; and hanged by the neck until she was dead. That Mrs. Roos at the time of hanging herself was laboring under a fit of temporary insanity.
George Roos, the husband, testified he last saw his wife about 1 o'clock Sunday morning; she left his bed at that time, and went to the bed where the children were and laid down by them; he asked her why she did so, and she replied she had pain in her body; she was very quiet, but much depressed and cast down; Mr. Roos went to sleep and about 4 o'clock awoke again, when he found the back door open and his wife gone; he could not find her in the house and going to the barn, found her hanging there, dead; he cut the body down and laid her as she was found by the jury; she was still warm, but life was extinct; she was very much home sick; they were in good circumstances in Germany and she seemed to think it was her fault they were here and did not have things; for the past fifteen years she has expressed herself that if anything happened she would take her life; never had any difficulty; noticed lately she had not seemed to be in her right mind; have five children, all here and all home at present; have been in this country about thirteen months.
George Roos, Jr., one of the children, testified there was no difficulty between his father and mother; she had not been right for some time and said she was afraid she would not have enough to eat; there was no cause for such an idea; she cried at times here, which she did not do in the old country.
Carl Roos, another son, said his mother had been very homesick and seemed to think she was the cause of their coming to America; they were all satisfied with the change but her; she was dead when he first saw her in the morning.
Mrs. Geo. Nagel said she had known Mrs. Roos since she came to this country; saw her about 9 o'clock the evening before; she said she was very tired. Mrs. N. thought for some time she was not in her right mind; she was home-sick and seemed to think it was her fault they came to this country; she had said she could not live here long.
Dr. Howard and two or three other witnesses were examined, but their evidence is substantially as above.
Fulton County Ledger, May 14, 1885:
Transcribed by Judy Churchill
HOME-SICKNESS THE CAUSE
George Roos, JR. and Carl Roos, two boys, left their home in Germany and came to this country. George stopped a few months in Ohio. Carl came two years ago this summer with Mr. George Nagle, when he returned from a visit to his native land, and came to Canton, where in a short time his brother George followed him, and the two have been employed in Drake's barber shop.
In Germany, all young men must serve three years in the army and the parents of these boys preferred they should leave that country before they came of age to go into the army.
The absence of her boys, two steady, industrious, fine-looking young chaps, caused the mother to reach after them with a longing heart. She pined for the loved ones who were separated from her by the broad waters of the Atlantic.
There was yet another younger boy under the home roof. He in a few years would be taken from Mother and home and placed in the army, if they remained in the father's land. And so the father gathered his family, crossed the waters, and joined his oldest boys in Canton.
They have lived here for about thirteen months. The youngest son is employed at Swearingen's east side store, and the other boys have good-paying engagements with George Drake. Their earnings are not squandered or frittered away in foolishness, but every week, according to their early training in the father country, are handed to their father.
He has not succeeded in securing employment since he came here, yet the family has been and is in comfortable circumstances.
But the failure of Mr. Roos to secure employment preyed upon the mind of his wife and she dwelt upon the possibility of their coming to want. She could not speak English and therefore there were but few persons here with whom she could associate and converse.
She became homesick for old scenes, old companions, and old ties until her mind became unbalanced and she felt life was too great a burden for her. She blamed herself for the family coming to this country and brooded over her imaginary troubles.
Sunday morning, last, the people of this city were startled by the announcement that sometime between one and four o'clock on that morning Mrs. Roos committed suicide by hanging herself in the small barn on the lot on which the family resided, on Cole Street, second house west of the old woolen mill property.
Her remains were buried in Greenwood Cemetery Monday afternoon, Rev. A. R. Mathes officiating. Mrs. [Mary] Roos was 48 years old.
An inquest was held by Esq. Stearns Sunday morning, at the residence of Mr. George Roos, with the following persons in the jurymen: Isaac A. Johnson; Edward Sanford, D. H. Palmer, Wm. Donn, Jr., H. W. Sebree, J. B. Fleming.
After hearing the evidence the jury rendered a verdict that Mrs. Mary Roos came to her death by voluntary suicide by hanging herself with a rope fastened to a post in a barn on George Roos's lot; and hanged by the neck until she was dead. That Mrs. Roos at the time of hanging herself was laboring under a fit of temporary insanity.
George Roos, the husband, testified he last saw his wife about 1 o'clock Sunday morning; she left his bed at that time, and went to the bed where the children were and laid down by them; he asked her why she did so, and she replied she had pain in her body; she was very quiet, but much depressed and cast down; Mr. Roos went to sleep and about 4 o'clock awoke again, when he found the back door open and his wife gone; he could not find her in the house and going to the barn, found her hanging there, dead; he cut the body down and laid her as she was found by the jury; she was still warm, but life was extinct; she was very much home sick; they were in good circumstances in Germany and she seemed to think it was her fault they were here and did not have things; for the past fifteen years she has expressed herself that if anything happened she would take her life; never had any difficulty; noticed lately she had not seemed to be in her right mind; have five children, all here and all home at present; have been in this country about thirteen months.
George Roos, Jr., one of the children, testified there was no difficulty between his father and mother; she had not been right for some time and said she was afraid she would not have enough to eat; there was no cause for such an idea; she cried at times here, which she did not do in the old country.
Carl Roos, another son, said his mother had been very homesick and seemed to think she was the cause of their coming to America; they were all satisfied with the change but her; she was dead when he first saw her in the morning.
Mrs. Geo. Nagel said she had known Mrs. Roos since she came to this country; saw her about 9 o'clock the evening before; she said she was very tired. Mrs. N. thought for some time she was not in her right mind; she was home-sick and seemed to think it was her fault they came to this country; she had said she could not live here long.
Dr. Howard and two or three other witnesses were examined, but their evidence is substantially as above.
Fulton County Ledger, May 14, 1885:
Transcribed by Judy Churchill
Suicide by Hanging
HOME-SICKNESS THE CAUSE
George Roos, JR. and Carl Roos, two boys, left their home in Germany and came to this country. George stopped a few months in Ohio. Carl came two years ago this summer with Mr. George Nagle, when he returned from a visit to his native land, and came to Canton, where in a short time his brother George followed him, and the two have been employed in Drake's barber shop.
In Germany, all young men must serve three years in the army and the parents of these boys preferred they should leave that country before they came of age to go into the army.
The absence of her boys, two steady, industrious, fine-looking young chaps, caused the mother to reach after them with a longing heart. She pined for the loved ones who were separated from her by the broad waters of the Atlantic.
There was yet another younger boy under the home roof. He in a few years would be taken from Mother and home and placed in the army, if they remained in the father's land. And so the father gathered his family, crossed the waters, and joined his oldest boys in Canton.
They have lived here for about thirteen months. The youngest son is employed at Swearingen's east side store, and the other boys have good-paying engagements with George Drake. Their earnings are not squandered or frittered away in foolishness, but every week, according to their early training in the father country, are handed to their father.
He has not succeeded in securing employment since he came here, yet the family has been and is in comfortable circumstances.
But the failure of Mr. Roos to secure employment preyed upon the mind of his wife and she dwelt upon the possibility of their coming to want. She could not speak English and therefore there were but few persons here with whom she could associate and converse.
She became homesick for old scenes, old companions, and old ties until her mind became unbalanced and she felt life was too great a burden for her. She blamed herself for the family coming to this country and brooded over her imaginary troubles.
Sunday morning, last, the people of this city were startled by the announcement that sometime between one and four o'clock on that morning Mrs. Roos committed suicide by hanging herself in the small barn on the lot on which the family resided, on Cole Street, second house west of the old woolen mill property.
Her remains were buried in Greenwood Cemetery Monday afternoon, Rev. A. R. Mathes officiating. Mrs. [Mary] Roos was 48 years old.
An inquest was held by Esq. Stearns Sunday morning, at the residence of Mr. George Roos, with the following persons in the jurymen: Isaac A. Johnson; Edward Sanford, D. H. Palmer, Wm. Donn, Jr., H. W. Sebree, J. B. Fleming.
After hearing the evidence the jury rendered a verdict that Mrs. Mary Roos came to her death by voluntary suicide by hanging herself with a rope fastened to a post in a barn on George Roos's lot; and hanged by the neck until she was dead. That Mrs. Roos at the time of hanging herself was laboring under a fit of temporary insanity.
George Roos, the husband, testified he last saw his wife about 1 o'clock Sunday morning; she left his bed at that time, and went to the bed where the children were and laid down by them; he asked her why she did so, and she replied she had pain in her body; she was very quiet, but much depressed and cast down; Mr. Roos went to sleep and about 4 o'clock awoke again, when he found the back door open and his wife gone; he could not find her in the house and going to the barn, found her hanging there, dead; he cut the body down and laid her as she was found by the jury; she was still warm, but life was extinct; she was very much home sick; they were in good circumstances in Germany and she seemed to think it was her fault they were here and did not have things; for the past fifteen years she has expressed herself that if anything happened she would take her life; never had any difficulty; noticed lately she had not seemed to be in her right mind; have five children, all here and all home at present; have been in this country about thirteen months.
George Roos, Jr., one of the children, testified there was no difficulty between his father and mother; she had not been right for some time and said she was afraid she would not have enough to eat; there was no cause for such an idea; she cried at times here, which she did not do in the old country.
Carl Roos, another son, said his mother had been very homesick and seemed to think she was the cause of their coming to America; they were all satisfied with the change but her; she was dead when he first saw her in the morning.
Mrs. Geo. Nagel said she had known Mrs. Roos since she came to this country; saw her about 9 o'clock the evening before; she said she was very tired. Mrs. N. thought for some time she was not in her right mind; she was home-sick and seemed to think it was her fault they came to this country; she had said she could not live here long.
Dr. Howard and two or three other witnesses were examined, but their evidence is substantially as above.
Fulton County Ledger, May 14, 1885:
Transcribed by Judy Churchill
HOME-SICKNESS THE CAUSE
George Roos, JR. and Carl Roos, two boys, left their home in Germany and came to this country. George stopped a few months in Ohio. Carl came two years ago this summer with Mr. George Nagle, when he returned from a visit to his native land, and came to Canton, where in a short time his brother George followed him, and the two have been employed in Drake's barber shop.
In Germany, all young men must serve three years in the army and the parents of these boys preferred they should leave that country before they came of age to go into the army.
The absence of her boys, two steady, industrious, fine-looking young chaps, caused the mother to reach after them with a longing heart. She pined for the loved ones who were separated from her by the broad waters of the Atlantic.
There was yet another younger boy under the home roof. He in a few years would be taken from Mother and home and placed in the army, if they remained in the father's land. And so the father gathered his family, crossed the waters, and joined his oldest boys in Canton.
They have lived here for about thirteen months. The youngest son is employed at Swearingen's east side store, and the other boys have good-paying engagements with George Drake. Their earnings are not squandered or frittered away in foolishness, but every week, according to their early training in the father country, are handed to their father.
He has not succeeded in securing employment since he came here, yet the family has been and is in comfortable circumstances.
But the failure of Mr. Roos to secure employment preyed upon the mind of his wife and she dwelt upon the possibility of their coming to want. She could not speak English and therefore there were but few persons here with whom she could associate and converse.
She became homesick for old scenes, old companions, and old ties until her mind became unbalanced and she felt life was too great a burden for her. She blamed herself for the family coming to this country and brooded over her imaginary troubles.
Sunday morning, last, the people of this city were startled by the announcement that sometime between one and four o'clock on that morning Mrs. Roos committed suicide by hanging herself in the small barn on the lot on which the family resided, on Cole Street, second house west of the old woolen mill property.
Her remains were buried in Greenwood Cemetery Monday afternoon, Rev. A. R. Mathes officiating. Mrs. [Mary] Roos was 48 years old.
An inquest was held by Esq. Stearns Sunday morning, at the residence of Mr. George Roos, with the following persons in the jurymen: Isaac A. Johnson; Edward Sanford, D. H. Palmer, Wm. Donn, Jr., H. W. Sebree, J. B. Fleming.
After hearing the evidence the jury rendered a verdict that Mrs. Mary Roos came to her death by voluntary suicide by hanging herself with a rope fastened to a post in a barn on George Roos's lot; and hanged by the neck until she was dead. That Mrs. Roos at the time of hanging herself was laboring under a fit of temporary insanity.
George Roos, the husband, testified he last saw his wife about 1 o'clock Sunday morning; she left his bed at that time, and went to the bed where the children were and laid down by them; he asked her why she did so, and she replied she had pain in her body; she was very quiet, but much depressed and cast down; Mr. Roos went to sleep and about 4 o'clock awoke again, when he found the back door open and his wife gone; he could not find her in the house and going to the barn, found her hanging there, dead; he cut the body down and laid her as she was found by the jury; she was still warm, but life was extinct; she was very much home sick; they were in good circumstances in Germany and she seemed to think it was her fault they were here and did not have things; for the past fifteen years she has expressed herself that if anything happened she would take her life; never had any difficulty; noticed lately she had not seemed to be in her right mind; have five children, all here and all home at present; have been in this country about thirteen months.
George Roos, Jr., one of the children, testified there was no difficulty between his father and mother; she had not been right for some time and said she was afraid she would not have enough to eat; there was no cause for such an idea; she cried at times here, which she did not do in the old country.
Carl Roos, another son, said his mother had been very homesick and seemed to think she was the cause of their coming to America; they were all satisfied with the change but her; she was dead when he first saw her in the morning.
Mrs. Geo. Nagel said she had known Mrs. Roos since she came to this country; saw her about 9 o'clock the evening before; she said she was very tired. Mrs. N. thought for some time she was not in her right mind; she was home-sick and seemed to think it was her fault they came to this country; she had said she could not live here long.
Dr. Howard and two or three other witnesses were examined, but their evidence is substantially as above.
Fulton County Ledger, May 14, 1885:
Transcribed by Judy Churchill
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