Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-03
A NICE CHOKE.
WHICH ENDED THE LIFE OF HEN
REICH KREMMER.
No Friends, No Money, No Work--Hence
He Retired from the job and Hung
Himself Up--The Discovery and Inquest
--Coronor Stein Calls on the Probate
Judge--He Wants an Administrator.

At about 9 o'clock yesterday morning
Coroner Stein was summoned to the Seven
Corners, to inquire into the circumstances
connected with the death of man found
suspended by the neck In tenement house.
The inquiry revealed one of those dark
scenes Of life when poverty and want drive
their wretched victim to perpetrate the SUI
preme crime of self-murder.
GLOBE reporter accompanied the cor
oner on his Investigations and also made
searching inquiry on his own accord IN the
neighborhood in which the wretched deed
was perpetrated, from which it appears that
some time past there has lived in the vicinity
two tailors, Henreich Kremmer and one
Sondach, or Sunday, as he was generally
called. These two mon were partners in
business, lived together in a sparsely fur
from the Seven Corners. They earned a
scanty iylihood by repairing and cleaning
clothing. Being driven from their squalid
Shome,' the partnership was dissolved,
Kremmer finding shelter in a room over a
saloon block nearer the corners. He was
soon, however, got rid of by the landlord,
and he finally domiciled himself in room
over Delaney's meat market. belonging to
Michael Defeil, of the Peoples Ice company.
Here he lived quiet, harmless life the PEG
pie say-harmless however, only so far as
others were concerned, for no man had a
greater enemy than Kremmer had in himself.
Not over given to habits of industry,
he spent no uncomfortable part of his time
in saloon in the neighborhood, and but a
small portion of it in work. He paid no
rent to Defeil, and that gentleman was anx-
ious to get him out Of his house. When
Mr.. Defeil left home yesterday morning he
told his children to watch If the old man
left the house. The children accordingly
kept about the hallway, and seeing nothing
of Kremmer, they knocked at his door, and
getting no response, one of them looked
through the key-hole and saw the man stand
ing, as he thought, in the doorway leading
into a second room, in a very singular posi-
ton. They went down stairs and told Mr..
Delaney, who went up and applied his eye
to the key-hole. Alarmed at what he saw,
he called some men to his assistance
who burst in the door, when
was revealed to their sight the
CHASTITY spectacle of Kremmer half suspended
by thin rope passing over the Intel of the
door in partition deviding two rooms
One foot was on the floor the other drawn
up as if in agony. One arm was stretched
rigidly down by the side with the fist clench-
ed, the other hand was pressed against the
neck. Near by was low stool not over SIX
inches high on which it would appear the
wretched man stood to adjust the rope and
| then kicked it from under him. Tom
Ryan-one of the first men in the room
shook the corps saying, ''Wake up old
man; he's not dead yet; see, he has his foot
| up.' It was soon apparent, however, that
! life was extinct, and the coroner was sent
for who Immediately attended and cut down
the corpse. A jury was impaneled who after
hearing the statement of Tom Ryan and ex-
! aiming the body, in few moments founc
! a verdict that deceased came to his death BY
strangulation by his own hand.
Deceased was short, thick-set man, about
forty-eight years of age, with black bearl
and hair and the whole top of his head per
fectly bald. 1t was poorly clad and NJ
money was found upon it. The room
showed evidences of the most deplorabl'
poverty-an old stove, a rickety chair,
pressing block, and in one corner a filth,
pallet and few rags for bedding were al
the room contained. In the hall was an oil
deal table, domestic sewing machine, al
old trunk, pail and some rags which de
ceased had evidently removed from the room
in view of leaving the premises.
/ Inquiries in the neighborhood show tina
deceased was failing in his eye sight. N,
one would trust him with work even if b.
would do it, because he was in the habit o
using the garments entrusted to him for be-
clothing. He lived mostly on ssfree lunches,
and when he could get five cents he woul,
visit saloon. Without money, withou
friends, driven from his tenement, with n
where to 90, despair doubtless drove him t
: the rash act.
i ADMINISTRATOR WANTED.
After the inquest the coroner proceeded t
the court Of probate, and addressing Judg
O'Gorman, said: Judge, want you to SEN
and take possession of the property of tn
man who committed suicide this morning.
The JUDGE have nothing to do with il
Coroner don't want to be criticised j
my duty, and want you to appoint an ad
ministrator.
The judge can't do that without a pet
ton.
Coroner-What petition do you want?
Judge-From his relatives or friends.
Coroner-He has none. I am going
bury the body at o'clock, and want 20
to take charge of the estate. don't mea
to have anything to do with it to be crit
cised in my duty. The judge made no T,
ply and the coroner Withdrew.
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