The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-06-27
Very Methodical Preparations
Made Alone to Accomplish
a Sure Death.
The Deceased Well To Do and
Was Beloved by Sisters
and Brothers.
Insanity is the Only Theory
That Can Be Advanced
For the Self
Murder.
SCICIDED.

Miss Louise Esterling, late of De-
troit, Michigan, sister of Mrs. Samuel
Irwin, committed suicide by hanging
herself in her room at Hotel Sicher,
this morning at an early hour. Her
age was about forty years.
HOW DISCOVERED.
This morning the habitues of
Sicher's hotel were shocked to learn
that lady, who occupied room No.
!, Sicher's hOtel-southeas corner on
the second floor, fronting Ohio and
Third streets, had suicided and was
dead in her room.
AT SID this morning, Miss Ester
ling having not shown up, the
stewardess knocked at her door
and getting no response, informed
Mr.. Sicher of the occurrence. and
something like two hours later table
was put against the door in the hall
and from that point of observation
she was discerned hanging. A dup
licate key was secured to the door and
an entrance effected. The body was
without life and cold, having evident
ly been dead several hours.
PREPARATIONS FOR DEATH.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin occupied rooms
Nos. l and 2, between which was
door and tranSOm. Miss Ester ling
occupied the east room of the two and
Mr.. and Mrs Irwin being absent from
the city, the deceased had possession
of the two rooms. She evidently bad
not been in bed, but had lain on the
bed IN her skirts and no shoes and
arising at an early hour bad put a
strap over the transom between the
rooms. She then stood on a chair mid
way in the door with a pillow near by
on the floor. She had put the strap
around her neck, as she stood On the
chair, and when she adjusted the
strap she kicked the chair over, it
striking on the pillow, evidently to
break the fall, to the end that the
chair would make no noise when it
fell.
SHE CHOKED TO DEATH.
An hour later and the body was
removed to the undertaking establish
ment of Mclaughlin Brothers where |
an inquest was held at 2 o'clock p. m. |
to-day, and a verdict of death by her
own hands while insane was rendered, |
which was in accordance with the |
facts.
ARRIVES IN sEDALIA.
Miss Esterlins arrived in Sedalia |
June Z. Before that she was at her
brothers in Chicago and later at the
home of friends in st. Louis. While |
in Chicago she acted strangely and in
a fit Of insanity burned bank book |
and 5000 in money. Her friends
were alarmed at her condition and it is
rumored she left her brothers in Chi
cago and went to st. Louis without
notice to them. Subsequently she
was found at the home of friend in
st. Louis by Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin and
brought to Sedalia. After she
arrived in Sedalia, Miss Esterling ex-
hiblted no insanity, and seemed en-
tirely rational in every respect by her
sister and others about the hotel.
Mr.. AND MRS. IRWIN,
Left some days since for the East.
Mr.. Irwin went to attend the national
convention of car builders at Lake
wood, New York, which is near Lake
Chautauqua. Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin
left there this morning for Chicago
and are expected home by the middle
of the week.
LAST SATURDAY.
Miss Esterling called on G. L.
Faulhaber, treasurer of the Missouri |
Trust Company. She seemed to be
laboring under an impression that
there were two men lurking about the
hotel who were going to take her to an
insane asylum-and pleaded with him
to protect her from such an outrage
az she was wont to term it. Mr.. Faul-
haber assured her that such was not the
case. Of course it was false and only
the rantings of a diseased mind. How
it happened that she went to Mr..
Faulhaber was because he has been
fransacting some business for her,