FRED EGGERT
(1811 - 1886)
SUICIDE
Joachim Eggert of this city committed suicide on Tuesday evening by hanging himself.
Tuesday evening after his wife had retired, he mentioned that he wished to go out. As he slept in a room by himself it was not noticed that he did not return and, in the morning, Mrs. Eggert did her work as usual thinking her husband was still abed. She went to the barn to milk the cow but found that the door was secured from the inside by means of a rope. She returned to the house and found that the bed in which her husband slept had not been occupied during the night. A neighbor cut the rope and on opening the door, Eggert was found apparently standing on some hay. Mrs. Eggert asked him to give the cow some hay and as he did not answer she went closer and found that he was dead. He had used a clothes line and was suspended from a ladder. He was cut down and the body taken to the house.
Two years ago he was taken sick and though he regained his bodily health his mind has been since affected. He was 75 years of age and used state that he was old enough to die. On one occasion he told his son he thought he would hang himself. Fred thought it best to treat the matter lightly and got the old man to laughing and from that time on he never mentioned the matter to him again. But the thought was often in his mind.
There was no cause for the deed as the old man was comfortably well off and did not have to do any labor to support himself. His relations with his family and relatives were always pleasant, but he had grown very childish during the last two years. He was born in Prussia.
Manitowoc Pilot, Wis., Thursday, March 18, 1886 pg. 3
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(1811 - 1886)
SUICIDE
Joachim Eggert of this city committed suicide on Tuesday evening by hanging himself.
Tuesday evening after his wife had retired, he mentioned that he wished to go out. As he slept in a room by himself it was not noticed that he did not return and, in the morning, Mrs. Eggert did her work as usual thinking her husband was still abed. She went to the barn to milk the cow but found that the door was secured from the inside by means of a rope. She returned to the house and found that the bed in which her husband slept had not been occupied during the night. A neighbor cut the rope and on opening the door, Eggert was found apparently standing on some hay. Mrs. Eggert asked him to give the cow some hay and as he did not answer she went closer and found that he was dead. He had used a clothes line and was suspended from a ladder. He was cut down and the body taken to the house.
Two years ago he was taken sick and though he regained his bodily health his mind has been since affected. He was 75 years of age and used state that he was old enough to die. On one occasion he told his son he thought he would hang himself. Fred thought it best to treat the matter lightly and got the old man to laughing and from that time on he never mentioned the matter to him again. But the thought was often in his mind.
There was no cause for the deed as the old man was comfortably well off and did not have to do any labor to support himself. His relations with his family and relatives were always pleasant, but he had grown very childish during the last two years. He was born in Prussia.
Manitowoc Pilot, Wis., Thursday, March 18, 1886 pg. 3
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FRED EGGERT
(1811 - 1886)
SUICIDE
Joachim Eggert of this city committed suicide on Tuesday evening by hanging himself.
Tuesday evening after his wife had retired, he mentioned that he wished to go out. As he slept in a room by himself it was not noticed that he did not return and, in the morning, Mrs. Eggert did her work as usual thinking her husband was still abed. She went to the barn to milk the cow but found that the door was secured from the inside by means of a rope. She returned to the house and found that the bed in which her husband slept had not been occupied during the night. A neighbor cut the rope and on opening the door, Eggert was found apparently standing on some hay. Mrs. Eggert asked him to give the cow some hay and as he did not answer she went closer and found that he was dead. He had used a clothes line and was suspended from a ladder. He was cut down and the body taken to the house.
Two years ago he was taken sick and though he regained his bodily health his mind has been since affected. He was 75 years of age and used state that he was old enough to die. On one occasion he told his son he thought he would hang himself. Fred thought it best to treat the matter lightly and got the old man to laughing and from that time on he never mentioned the matter to him again. But the thought was often in his mind.
There was no cause for the deed as the old man was comfortably well off and did not have to do any labor to support himself. His relations with his family and relatives were always pleasant, but he had grown very childish during the last two years. He was born in Prussia.
Manitowoc Pilot, Wis., Thursday, March 18, 1886 pg. 3
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(1811 - 1886)
SUICIDE
Joachim Eggert of this city committed suicide on Tuesday evening by hanging himself.
Tuesday evening after his wife had retired, he mentioned that he wished to go out. As he slept in a room by himself it was not noticed that he did not return and, in the morning, Mrs. Eggert did her work as usual thinking her husband was still abed. She went to the barn to milk the cow but found that the door was secured from the inside by means of a rope. She returned to the house and found that the bed in which her husband slept had not been occupied during the night. A neighbor cut the rope and on opening the door, Eggert was found apparently standing on some hay. Mrs. Eggert asked him to give the cow some hay and as he did not answer she went closer and found that he was dead. He had used a clothes line and was suspended from a ladder. He was cut down and the body taken to the house.
Two years ago he was taken sick and though he regained his bodily health his mind has been since affected. He was 75 years of age and used state that he was old enough to die. On one occasion he told his son he thought he would hang himself. Fred thought it best to treat the matter lightly and got the old man to laughing and from that time on he never mentioned the matter to him again. But the thought was often in his mind.
There was no cause for the deed as the old man was comfortably well off and did not have to do any labor to support himself. His relations with his family and relatives were always pleasant, but he had grown very childish during the last two years. He was born in Prussia.
Manitowoc Pilot, Wis., Thursday, March 18, 1886 pg. 3
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