The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-08-11
John IIabIcht Suicides.

specIal to Cincinnati Enluiier,
New Albany, Indiana, July 10. ;
John Habict, u stranger, who came :
here last week, was found dead i
to-day in a retired portion OF the
German Catholic graveyard, near
the fair grounds, with a pistol'shot
in thu left nipple. A Colts SIX
shooter, one chamber of which
was empty, lay beside him. Pa
pcIs on his person showed that
deceased lived at No. $40 Walnut
street, Cincinnati. IIabicht was
seen to enter the cemetery ground
last evening, aud probably shot
himself about nine o'clock, as a
pistol shot was heard in that di.
; rection about that hour. Habicht
! was about sixty years of age, and
: a carpenter Ivy trade.
Another account says:
ain 1917 he came to this coun-
9 try from Germany, where he de-
0 serted a wife and two small child
!. rem without the least provocatlon.
II He left home without word OF
Is warning, and for years his fate was
IS a matter of surmise to the mem.
u bers of his family. His wife wait
u ed long for his return, or for some
81 tidings of his whereabouts, and
n then sick at heart she literally pi'
O. ned away and died.
T. "One of the children whom Ha
OF bicht left behind him was Chris
es tian, who at that time was slA
n years of age. Twenty years latel
th he came to America, to Cincinnati
sn where he obtained employment q
rs Gould & Pearce's cotton mill. Oh
se. Christmas day year ago be re
er ceiyed word from Herman Marck
no worth that some one in Grcenville
'at Mississippi, bearing his name wa
be inquiring in Cincinnati for nc
De- phcw. Letters were exchanged
rs and young Habicht found to HI
'ut surprise that the man in questio
la. was his long.lost father. The 50
{ a nior Habicht came to this cit,
os and having accumulated quite
o little fortune, he and his son pu
'es chased saloon Oh Main stree
our and embarked in the busines
ase Little by little the old man too
,at. to drink. and finally became almo'
loo besotted. On this account fath'
=, ~, and son quarreled, and the form'
anu gathering his property togetnc
'om went to New Albany, where IN
ere fit of drunken despondency,
i'm. shot himself. Habichtnever cou
,os agree with any one, and his II
"o' was a constant succession OF u
ply pleasant episodes
re-
ont. The subject of the above sket
:, was one of the first settlers OF t
go town of Greenville. lie came
rod this place from Central City, /
ac, nois. where be had married me
war excellent lady, who lived and d.
toct in happy ignorance of her h
,r;lv bands former marriage and bi
|. =, desertion of wife and childl
.,,or in his German home. This &C
.l;sb woman and an adopted son, Th
oalv dore. both died here of the yell
oo.o fever in 1878. Habicht MARI
ond again. in most indecent haste;
reo. separated from this last wife
man haste as great, and becoming
&c q satisfied with the country, sold
bont property and left; and until
:, of appearance of this notice his T
with uence was W us N"o ""'
vic ring MS long ies'ueu'o W
ost }, harm was known of him; ard
fact now given of his earlier
their is surprise to people who in
One ined that they knew him as t
again know themselves. lie kept
with secret of deserted herman NJ
safely hidden in his own breas