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Bigler, Frederick 1841-1876

BIGLER

Posted By: CHERYL MOONEN (email)
Date: 7/29/2018 at 22:13:52

Dubuque Daily Times, Sunday, Saturday, Dec 23, 1876, IA, Page: 4

SUICIDE

Fred. Bigler, a Victim of Hard Drink
Hangs Himself in His Stable

CLERMONT, Dec. 22. – The people of this village were greatly shocked yesterday afternoon, by the news that Frederick Bigler, a hardworking and honest citizen here, had committed suicide by hanging himself in his stable. His lifeless body was found hanging by 3 in the afternoon, and the startling news spread rapidly from mouth to ear through the community carrying dismay and sorrow to all who knew his slavishness to drink, and remembered the large family he had thus brought to unnatural sorrow by taking his own life. It was the Demon drink that did the dreadful work; and what must be the reflections of those who fed the victim’s morbid appetite to Deaths door? The writer took the occasion to visit the bereaved family last evening, a wife and seven children, left at this inclement season in poor circumstances. The tale told by the sorrowing and sobbing woman, with her brood of fatherless little ones crying about her, was a pitiful one indeed. “Frederick,” she said, was always a kind, good man except when he had been drinking – then he was difficult to get along with. I had plead with those that sold him drink to refuse him, but still he got it. And now he is gone, and in such a way!” The coroner has been notified and will no doubt hold an inquest as soon as he arrives.


 

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