The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23

| Topeka, Kan, Aug. 22.-The Vestry
| of Grace Cathedral Parish of Topeka
| has called the Rev. Henry I. Bodley OF
| Mount Vernon, n. Y, to be dean of
| the parish succeeding the Rev. Frank
Rose Millspaugh, who has been cleo
ted Bishop Of Kansas diocese.
sUICIDED ON FALSE REPORT.
Man Thought he was Prohibited from
Marrying Again.
Chicago. Aug. 22-MiIton c. Merrill,
| night yard master for the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy railroad, living at
! No. 14O0 Lexington avenue, committed
suicide Monday night be inhaling illu-
minating gas. Dependency because OF
| domestic troubles and false reports
| printed that an injunction had been
| granted in Judge Chetlain's court to his
| wife restraining him from marrying an
other woman led him to end his life.
| Instead of going to work as usual,
| Merrill stayed at home Monday night,
| going to bed early. Yesterday morning
Mrs. Merrill, who was sleeping with her
daughter in an adjoining room, awoke
and instantly detected escaping gas.
She started to investigate, and looked
| at the gas jets in several rooms before
| she inspected her husbands room.
When she approached the door. and
| found the gas escaping through every
! crevice, she Immediately sent for her
son-in-law, Fred Riechers. No. 1889 Lex
! ington avenue. When Riechers arrived
| he opened the door TO Merrills room
| and found the dead man lying across
| the bed. Gas fumes prevented en-
| trance for time. but physician was
summoned and when he arrived the
| body was found to be cold, death hav-
| ing taken place probably several hours
| before. An open gas jet was the source
| of the deadly vapor.
| The coroneris jury, summoned by
| Deputy Coroner Kelly. rendered a YER
| dict of suicide by inhalation of gas, the
cause ascribed being dependency.
| The story of domestic troubles with
! their result as brought out by the evil
| dence at the coroner's inquest held yes
! terday developed the fact that up to
| five months ago all had been happy in
| the Merrill household since 1878. when
| Merrill and his wife were married. Mer-
| rilis work as night yard master lasted
! from $50 in the evening until $50 the
next morning. with little to do between
| II and 8 o'clock. Although Merrill for
| years had been temperate in his habits,
yet during May he began to frequent a
saloon at No. 661 South Halsted street.
run by a Mrs. Beetich. Thursday Mrs.
| Merrill received a note from Mrs.
| Beetich saying Merrill could be found
| and night at the Halsted street saloon
| from IL TO 3 a. m. Mrs. Merrill, accom-
| panied by her mother. forthwith visited
| the saloon. The Beetich woman was in
| formed that Merrill was married and
she was asked to have nothing further
| to do with him. She thanked her Wis
itors by ordering them from the saloon.
Later Mrs. Merrill and her husband
| talked the matter over, Merrill claiming
| he did not dare to desert his Halstcd
street friend, because if he did she
! would forthwith seek the Burlington Of
| ficals.
Sunday afternoon Mrs. Beetich called
/ at the Merrill residence, a pretty stone
! front building. and said she had come to
! see what kind Of a house she was to
/ live in when she and Merrill were mar
! tod All of which had little comfort
for Mrs Merrill, who, although her hus-
zei"~v OF $3.50 A month. yet
had had scarcely enough money to buy
food with Tor several weeks. Monday
| she sought an attorney TO find what
| protection she could get from the law
and the court proceedings were publish
| ed in the afternoon papers. Morrill,
! saw the account and took the paper
! home and showed his wife. While she
| was reading ii he went to the nearest
| drug store and telephoned the railroad
| people that he would not be able TO
I work that night. When he reached
/ home again ne informed his wife Mrs.
| Beetich had threatened TO kill him if he
| failed to keep up his attentions and
! gifts of money.
| At o'clock he retired for the night in
| his private room after bidding his wife
| good night. This was the last time she
/ saw him. At the time the rest of the
| family retired for the night no noise
| was heard in his room nor was any odor
/ OF gas noticed about the house.
Mrs. Riechers. a step-daughter of Mr..
Merrill. said yesterday concerning her
| father:
My father. believe, was not right in
| his mind. During the last six months
! calamity after calamity had followed
/ him. Early in the year his mother died.
| then sister. and later two sons, Mar
| key and Milton. aged IS and % years.
| died. Markey died two weeks ago in
| a Cincinnati hospital and my father re-
| turned a few days ago from that city.
where he had attended the funeral.
| Added to this his trouble with Mrs.
| Beetich. Of whom he appeared 10 stand
| in great fear. was. suppose. more than
| he could bear. Ny father was always
| kind husband and father and would
have remained such had il not been fo-
| the Beetich woman's interference and
his infatuation for her"
Judge Chetlain denied yesterday the
| report in the afternoon papers ne had
I
| ton c. Merrill from committing bigany.
NO such injunction was granted By
| this court" said the judge. NO such
| Injunction would be granted by any
/ judge or court OF this state. Still more
( impossible is the granting Of any such
| an injunction. ex parte. without notice
, 10 the defendant and as matter 81
| course. courts Of equity do not inter
| fere 70 restrain the commission q fell
| onies or crimes IL is true the petition
F! did contain a prayer for such an IN
| junction II was under a nisapprehen-
/ sion OF the law I noticed the error a.
| once and refused 70 grant this part %
/ The petition. The injunction as passed
! by me merely contained the usual
/ clause. restraining the defendant from
nlolesting. annoying. or interfering
with his wife from taking the alleged
/ correspondent in 70 the wifs's house q"