Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-03
DIED WITH THE DAY.
Charles Fischer Strangles Himself in
His Room, by Means of a
sILKEN STRIP AND THE BEDPOsT.
He Packed Away His Effects and Went
Methodically to Work,
WRITING LETTERS TO HIS FRIENDS

"Mein Gott! er ist todtp'
1t was Mrs. Barbara Boschat who gave
utterance to this heartrending exclamation
last evening when the. door OF room on the
third story of No. 5S3 Smithfeld street was
burst in, and the dead body of Charles
Fischer discovered lying on the floor, and
hanging by the head from the bed post.
Fischer was a printer employed on the
Freiheifs Freund. He roomed with an
other man named Ansley, at the place
named, and according to the evidence Of his
land1ady, Mrs. Boschat, was a quiet man,
though rather given to outbreaks OF drink
ing. These would be followed In turn by
fits Of melancholia, but during the two years
that he resided with Mrs. Boschat he had
never evinced any disposition to injure him
self
On Saturday night Fisher had been drink.
ing little, and returning home had had q
restless ft, wandering about tho top floors,
and behaving In n more or less erratic
manner. Finally his landlady succeeded In
inducing him to 70 TO bed, where he re.
malned until 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
He BoRRows A REVOLVER.
At this time he was seen by young
Boschat, who found him calm, and giving
no sign Of his grave determination. Fishers
roommate went out, leaving him alone.
Toward evening the deceased went into
the adjoining room and asked the occupant
Alexander Rent to loan him revolver, as
he wanted to kill himself Rent laughed at
him, never supposing he was serious, and
said he had none. Half an hour afterward
Mrs. Boschat, who had frequently made him
friendly visits, raped at his door, land re-
ceiving no reply, as related, pushed in the
door.
1t yielded slowly, as if some weight pre-
vented it from opening. Jacob Walter, a
brother of the landlady's, and her son,
rendered assistance, and the door was opened
sufficiently to allow glimpse of the room.
Mrs. Boschat peered in, and exclaimed:
my God, he is deadi he is lying on the
floor"
Through the rapidly gathering gloom Of
the evening the dead body of Fischer was
discovered suspended by a strip of some silk
material from the post of the low wooden
bedstead.
DEATH MET DETEMINEDLY.
He had removed his coat, vest and shoes,
duu udu SOuc W Ills ucdIu WIN
ton. 1t must have been lingering one,
as the body rested on the floor, and it could
only have been by violently twisting the
improvised rope around his neck and throw
ing his weight against it, that he could have
succeed in strangling himself He had
packed away his effects in his trunk;
put his books away carefully 10
their accustomed case, and then had
written two letters. One of these was
to the foreman of the Freiheit's Freund.
which he had afterward destroyed, and the
other was to his landlady asking him to in
form his brother Frank, at Edgewoodville.
Pa, of the fact of his death. This request
was complied with last night by telegraph.
Fischer was a native of Switzerland,
about 30 years of age and unmarried. He
was a small man. with rather heavy face,
light complexion and wore a slight mus
tache. He was about ten years in this
country and q member of German Typo
graphical Union No. 9. Grant Miller
viewed the remains, which were at once re-
moved to the morgue, and subpoened Alex
ander Kent, Mrs. Barbara Boschat, her son
and her brother Jacob Woetter, to appear at
the inquest, to be held at II o'clock this
morning.