The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-13
SHOT DEAD.

'ADoLrn HEBsACKER COMMITS SUICIDE BY
SENDING A LOAD or SHOT THROUGH HIS
BRAIN
AT about eleven o'clock yesterday fore
noon Adolph Hebsacker shot himself dead
ip a small room adjoining his own, In the
third story Of the building occupied as a
bakery by Mr.. r. Hebsacker ON Eighth
street. The particulars Of the deed are few
but horrible; no good cause for It can be
assigned, yet everything seems to show
that the act was premeditated.
About week ago he was overcome with
heat, and since then he has been lying in
his room, coming down only at times to
eat or drink Yesterday morning Mr.. r.
Hebsacker, his brother, went to his room
and asked him if he was well enough to
drive the bread wagon around town, to
which he replied in the negative, and Mr..
III. told him to take good care Of himself
and left him, Shortly afterward he came
down and bought two bottles of soda pop
in the saloon of Mr.. Nicholas Monce,
next door. He drank one bottle and took
the other with HIM, saying that it was too
warm to drink anything stronger than soda.
He went to his room again, coming down
| shortly afterward with water bucket,
which he filled with water from the clstern
in the rear of the house, and carrying it
clear around the bri!ding, wen. through the
bakery and then up stairs to his room This
conduct was noticed by Nh. Il. Heb
sacker, who asked him why he took
such -about.way for his
room, to this he replied in an evasive way
and went on. Hardly five minutes had
elapsed after this when shot fell, which
was heard by nearly every one in the house,
but it could not at first be located. Mr..
Hebsacker was among the first to locate the
dreadful sound, and rushing up stairs, dis.
covered his brother lying on the floor, face
downward, with double barreled
shotgun in his arms. H. drew the
PROSTATE form out to the middle of the
floor in the hope that life was not quite
extinct, but the shot had done its work
well, few witches of the muscles and all
| was over.
| Coroner Fitzgerald was Immediately
'summoned, who, finding that all the signs
50 conclusively proved suicide, at first de.
cided that no inquest would be necessary;
but after maturer deliberation concluded
that, AS no one had seen the shot fired, it
would be better to hold an inquest, which
he did IN the evening.
The jury was composed Of Messrs. N,
Feith, j. II. Metcalf, John A. Poor, VIM.
Frank, Benjamin Lynch and Nicholas
Monce. A thorough examination into the
circumstances satisfied the jury that it was
a clear case of suicide, and decision was
rendered accordingly.
Mr. Adolph Hebsacker was thirty-eight
years OF age; he came to this country about
eight months ago, and wen! 10 work
in the bakery of his brother,
baking at first, but recently driving the
| delivery wagon. He was born and lived
until his departure for this country, in
Tubingen, Murtemberg, Germany where
his parents now reside. He went through
the Austria Prussian and the Franco Prus.
sian wars and was generally considered by
all who knew him here as an exemplary
man. His actions just before he committed
| the deed were peculiar, so much 50 that
they were commented upon by nearly all
who saw him. --'