A Day of Suicides (1894)

Columbus Daily Enquirer, Georgia
21 June 1894
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A DAY OF SUICIDES.

The suicide column in the New York papers is becoming a specialty. In one paper Tuesday was the following record:

Mrs. Walker, 23 years old, attempted suicide with laudanum because her husband insisted that she shou'd dress herself and go out to dinner. She had a headache and did not want to go, and took laudanum.

Charles Smith, a baker, out of work, cut his throat.

Henry Meyer was found in a nearby town hanging by a clothes line from the limb of a tree. He left a card saying: "Rheumatism is the cause."

Henry Lohse, of Philadelphia, 30 years old, despondent and suffering from various troubles, drowned himself in the ocean at Atlantic City.

A young woman known as Bertha, was found dead in her room on East Seventy-second street. She had taken poison.

Mamie Bergenon, the young woman who tried to kill herself Sunday afternoon by taking rat poison, died at Bellevue Hospital Monday.

Andrew Gregswitsch, 30 years old, ended himself by taking Paris green.

Carl Reimmann, 40 years old, took Paris green.

Mrs. Nellie Thompson, 23 years old, swallowed carbolic acid.

Horace Servoss, Superintendent of the Western Division of the Erie Canal, committed suicide Monday.

Barbara Eissenoff[?], 62 years old, of Long Island City, threw herself into a cistern and was drowned.

James Francis Forshay, of 34 Vandam street, New York, crazed for his dead wife, shot and fatally wounded his favorite child, and killed himself.

William Alfers, 23 years old, thirty-six hours after his marriage, found he was tired of life and his 17 year old bride, cut his throat.

An account is given of the suicide Sunday night, in his room in Smith & McNell's Hotel, of George Walter McCormick, the Charleston lawyer. He had registered as "A. J. Otey, Augusta, Ga."

Ferdinand G. Vintere, a Frenchman, 60 years old, shot himself through the brain with two pistols, fired into each temple simultaneously. His trouble was the death of his wife.

Minnie Laeffler, 20 years old, a servant, made use of illuminating gas, instead of the usual kerosene. She killed herself for love, also, of course.

Mrs. Ernest Rodehan, 32 years old, made three efforts at suicide Monday morning. Grief over the loss of two children affected the woman's mind.

Mrs. John Connolly, at Orange, N.J., drowned herself in a private pond. Her mind was affected.