The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-15

(. c. Jacques left last night at 10 O'Clock
for Kansas City in search OF his brother,
w A Jacques, who it is supposed COM
mitted suicide Sunday night.
W. a Jacques lives, or lived. in North
Wichita with his family, consisting of a
wife and four children. Last Saturday he
went TO Kansas City TO look up situation
which had been offered him at that place
Yesterday morning his wife was horror
stricken upon receiving from him a letter
dated, Station A, Kansas City, S a. m. in
which he announced his intention Of com
hitting suicide, and intimating that he
had chosen the method by drowning.
The letter bears date Oh Sunday, no hour
mentioned, and il Is feared that the deed
was done sometime Sunday night. The
envelope bore the return card of Boone.
Kramer and O'Hearn, Railroad
Labor Agents, 1915 Union avenue.
The paper was common nole
paper. Other than the return card there
was not the slightest clue to his where
ab0uts in the city, either at the time of
writing or otherwise. The communica-
ton threw no light upon the subject, the
burden of ii being only that he had de-
iiberately resolved that life was no longer
such a manner, not clearly indicated, as
that his body should not even be recoY-
cred.
4 messenger was at once sent to his
fathers place, twenty miles north, and +.
{. Jacques came to the city at once and,
after consultation with his sister-in-law
and his brother who is employed in the
Manhattan barber shop here, he decided
to go TO Kansas City in quest of the unfor-
tuuate brother, leaYlDg as above stated at
10 o'clock last night.
w. A. JACQUES has been for years one OF
the leading district school teachers of
Sedgwick county and has been regarded as
man of spotless character. he had been
for two years a member of the county
board oil examiners, and stood high in the
profession, so that even the imputa-
lion of dishonor. which is given
as the occasion of his letter from Kansas
City, will be news to many who knew him
best.
His brothers state that he was always
sickly, and also liable to periods of deJec-
lion owing to an extreme sensitlveness,
especially as regarded his reputation for
honor and int gritty; that he has always
been an Incorporating advocate of the
enforcement of the prOhIbitory laws, and
last winter was active in circulating Il
petition demanding the removal from
office of certain couuty and municipal Off
Gals who were therein charged with neg
lec5 OF duty with regard TO such
laws aud that in consequence he become
very obnoxious TO the persons charged,
and that they some time within the past
few weeks either maliciOusly Or wantOnly
set afoat stories affecting his reputation as
a faithful husband, alleging that he had
been known to consor5 with women or n
doubtful character, and that these stories
were published at time when he was at
"A distance, ignorant of them, aud so I'M
able to make any defense. They say that
in his efforts 10 secure a position as teacher
tales coming to the ears of the school
boards, and that he finally
concluded to give up the attempt and seek
employment in some other business, hav-
ing meantime resigned from the b ard OF
examiners in consideration of the possible
embarrassment of the other members
Last week while on his way home from
the northeast he was taken sick al Furey
aud laid over one day there. Here be met
"A man, whose name he did not tell IN his
letter, who offered him a position in Kan
sas City, OF what sort Is not known, as he
only stated that on his arrival there
he found il swiudling concern
aud refused to have anything TO do with
it. He accordingly joined the excursion
TO Kansas City without coming on home
and the irst news of his trip tulther WAS
the ominous letter His brothers be-
lieye that he was seriously affected
through brooding over what ne considered
his loss of reputation and has failure 70
secure employment, and in this condition
they fear that he has carried out his pur'
nose to fatal issue.