ESTRANGED FROM FAMILY, DESPONDENT, COMMITS SUICIDE
TOOK THE EASIEST WAY; UNABLE TO CONQUER HABIT
Louis (sic) Foley, Michigan Man, Drinks Carbolic Acid
Estranged from members of the family and unable to conquer his
appetite for liquor which had been the cause of his shortcomings,
Louis Foley, a Stephenson, Michigan man, took the "easiest way,"
some time during Sunday night and his dead body was found in a
room at the North House, North Ninth street where he was a boarder,
this morning. A partly emptied bottle of carbolic acid found beside
the bed told the story of the means taken to end it all and Coroner
Dr. W.G. Kemper, who was called held that there was no necessity to
call an inquest, that it was just a plain case of suicide.
Arrangements have not been made for the funeral and the body was
taken to the under taking rooms of the Frazier & Shimek company
where it awaits word from the relatives.
Came Here Last Spring
Foley was a man about sixty-four years old and came here last spring
to work for the Hutter Construction company upon the addition to the
Holy Family convent. He secured the job through his son, James Foley, who has made his home at 1619 Division street for a number of years, on his promise to "make good." But the story was the same old one that has been told time and again. Saturday, Foley who had not been employed for a time, secured a new job on the construction work at the new cement plant and was to have reported this morning. Sunday morning he left the North House and was not again seen by any member of the household. He was heard to return sometime Sunday evening and at about 10:30 groans were heard coming from his room by one of the other boarders. No investigation was made however and this morning when one of the men went to the room to call him Foley's dead body was found on the bed. He had been dead for several hours.
Born Near DePere
Mr. Foley was born at Glemore (sic), near DePere. He was twice
married, leaving his first wife after a son born to them was about
nine months old. The wife later secured a divorce and Foley was
married a second time in Michigan and is said to again have left
after the birth of a babe, this time a daughter. The wife again was
the one to secure a divorce and later remarried. The son here says
that he is financially unable to pay the funeral expenses and in
view of the fact that he has never been cared for by the father
since the age of nine months, he does not feel that he should accept
the responsibility. The other relatives are being communicated with.
Treated Corns with the Acid
In talking with the officers the son said that his father had been
in the habit of using a carbolic acid solution for treatment of corns and bunions and that he had always carried a bottle of the solution with him. Besides the son here, the daughter, Mrs. Clifford Minnard of Gladstone, Mich., a brother Thomas Foley and a sister, Mrs. Albert Tickler, of Stephenson, Mich., and one brother, Joseph, who lives somewhere in Kansas, survive the man.
Manitowoc Herald News, Monday, September 10, 1923 P.1
TOOK THE EASIEST WAY; UNABLE TO CONQUER HABIT
Louis (sic) Foley, Michigan Man, Drinks Carbolic Acid
Estranged from members of the family and unable to conquer his
appetite for liquor which had been the cause of his shortcomings,
Louis Foley, a Stephenson, Michigan man, took the "easiest way,"
some time during Sunday night and his dead body was found in a
room at the North House, North Ninth street where he was a boarder,
this morning. A partly emptied bottle of carbolic acid found beside
the bed told the story of the means taken to end it all and Coroner
Dr. W.G. Kemper, who was called held that there was no necessity to
call an inquest, that it was just a plain case of suicide.
Arrangements have not been made for the funeral and the body was
taken to the under taking rooms of the Frazier & Shimek company
where it awaits word from the relatives.
Came Here Last Spring
Foley was a man about sixty-four years old and came here last spring
to work for the Hutter Construction company upon the addition to the
Holy Family convent. He secured the job through his son, James Foley, who has made his home at 1619 Division street for a number of years, on his promise to "make good." But the story was the same old one that has been told time and again. Saturday, Foley who had not been employed for a time, secured a new job on the construction work at the new cement plant and was to have reported this morning. Sunday morning he left the North House and was not again seen by any member of the household. He was heard to return sometime Sunday evening and at about 10:30 groans were heard coming from his room by one of the other boarders. No investigation was made however and this morning when one of the men went to the room to call him Foley's dead body was found on the bed. He had been dead for several hours.
Born Near DePere
Mr. Foley was born at Glemore (sic), near DePere. He was twice
married, leaving his first wife after a son born to them was about
nine months old. The wife later secured a divorce and Foley was
married a second time in Michigan and is said to again have left
after the birth of a babe, this time a daughter. The wife again was
the one to secure a divorce and later remarried. The son here says
that he is financially unable to pay the funeral expenses and in
view of the fact that he has never been cared for by the father
since the age of nine months, he does not feel that he should accept
the responsibility. The other relatives are being communicated with.
Treated Corns with the Acid
In talking with the officers the son said that his father had been
in the habit of using a carbolic acid solution for treatment of corns and bunions and that he had always carried a bottle of the solution with him. Besides the son here, the daughter, Mrs. Clifford Minnard of Gladstone, Mich., a brother Thomas Foley and a sister, Mrs. Albert Tickler, of Stephenson, Mich., and one brother, Joseph, who lives somewhere in Kansas, survive the man.
Manitowoc Herald News, Monday, September 10, 1923 P.1
ESTRANGED FROM FAMILY, DESPONDENT, COMMITS SUICIDE
TOOK THE EASIEST WAY; UNABLE TO CONQUER HABIT
Louis (sic) Foley, Michigan Man, Drinks Carbolic Acid
Estranged from members of the family and unable to conquer his
appetite for liquor which had been the cause of his shortcomings,
Louis Foley, a Stephenson, Michigan man, took the "easiest way,"
some time during Sunday night and his dead body was found in a
room at the North House, North Ninth street where he was a boarder,
this morning. A partly emptied bottle of carbolic acid found beside
the bed told the story of the means taken to end it all and Coroner
Dr. W.G. Kemper, who was called held that there was no necessity to
call an inquest, that it was just a plain case of suicide.
Arrangements have not been made for the funeral and the body was
taken to the under taking rooms of the Frazier & Shimek company
where it awaits word from the relatives.
Came Here Last Spring
Foley was a man about sixty-four years old and came here last spring
to work for the Hutter Construction company upon the addition to the
Holy Family convent. He secured the job through his son, James Foley, who has made his home at 1619 Division street for a number of years, on his promise to "make good." But the story was the same old one that has been told time and again. Saturday, Foley who had not been employed for a time, secured a new job on the construction work at the new cement plant and was to have reported this morning. Sunday morning he left the North House and was not again seen by any member of the household. He was heard to return sometime Sunday evening and at about 10:30 groans were heard coming from his room by one of the other boarders. No investigation was made however and this morning when one of the men went to the room to call him Foley's dead body was found on the bed. He had been dead for several hours.
Born Near DePere
Mr. Foley was born at Glemore (sic), near DePere. He was twice
married, leaving his first wife after a son born to them was about
nine months old. The wife later secured a divorce and Foley was
married a second time in Michigan and is said to again have left
after the birth of a babe, this time a daughter. The wife again was
the one to secure a divorce and later remarried. The son here says
that he is financially unable to pay the funeral expenses and in
view of the fact that he has never been cared for by the father
since the age of nine months, he does not feel that he should accept
the responsibility. The other relatives are being communicated with.
Treated Corns with the Acid
In talking with the officers the son said that his father had been
in the habit of using a carbolic acid solution for treatment of corns and bunions and that he had always carried a bottle of the solution with him. Besides the son here, the daughter, Mrs. Clifford Minnard of Gladstone, Mich., a brother Thomas Foley and a sister, Mrs. Albert Tickler, of Stephenson, Mich., and one brother, Joseph, who lives somewhere in Kansas, survive the man.
Manitowoc Herald News, Monday, September 10, 1923 P.1
TOOK THE EASIEST WAY; UNABLE TO CONQUER HABIT
Louis (sic) Foley, Michigan Man, Drinks Carbolic Acid
Estranged from members of the family and unable to conquer his
appetite for liquor which had been the cause of his shortcomings,
Louis Foley, a Stephenson, Michigan man, took the "easiest way,"
some time during Sunday night and his dead body was found in a
room at the North House, North Ninth street where he was a boarder,
this morning. A partly emptied bottle of carbolic acid found beside
the bed told the story of the means taken to end it all and Coroner
Dr. W.G. Kemper, who was called held that there was no necessity to
call an inquest, that it was just a plain case of suicide.
Arrangements have not been made for the funeral and the body was
taken to the under taking rooms of the Frazier & Shimek company
where it awaits word from the relatives.
Came Here Last Spring
Foley was a man about sixty-four years old and came here last spring
to work for the Hutter Construction company upon the addition to the
Holy Family convent. He secured the job through his son, James Foley, who has made his home at 1619 Division street for a number of years, on his promise to "make good." But the story was the same old one that has been told time and again. Saturday, Foley who had not been employed for a time, secured a new job on the construction work at the new cement plant and was to have reported this morning. Sunday morning he left the North House and was not again seen by any member of the household. He was heard to return sometime Sunday evening and at about 10:30 groans were heard coming from his room by one of the other boarders. No investigation was made however and this morning when one of the men went to the room to call him Foley's dead body was found on the bed. He had been dead for several hours.
Born Near DePere
Mr. Foley was born at Glemore (sic), near DePere. He was twice
married, leaving his first wife after a son born to them was about
nine months old. The wife later secured a divorce and Foley was
married a second time in Michigan and is said to again have left
after the birth of a babe, this time a daughter. The wife again was
the one to secure a divorce and later remarried. The son here says
that he is financially unable to pay the funeral expenses and in
view of the fact that he has never been cared for by the father
since the age of nine months, he does not feel that he should accept
the responsibility. The other relatives are being communicated with.
Treated Corns with the Acid
In talking with the officers the son said that his father had been
in the habit of using a carbolic acid solution for treatment of corns and bunions and that he had always carried a bottle of the solution with him. Besides the son here, the daughter, Mrs. Clifford Minnard of Gladstone, Mich., a brother Thomas Foley and a sister, Mrs. Albert Tickler, of Stephenson, Mich., and one brother, Joseph, who lives somewhere in Kansas, survive the man.
Manitowoc Herald News, Monday, September 10, 1923 P.1
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