The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-07
COMMITTED SuIcIDn.

Sad Fate of F. A. Schaefer, Former Meat
 Market Proprietor-Lea Four Chil-
 dren-FlnaneiaI Troubles.
 F, A. Schaefer, who until about a
 week ago kept the butcher market and
 general grocery store at the junction of
 State and Olive streets, hanged him
 self at 1:l5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his residence, 11S Lawrence street, a
 few doors west of Foster street. MT.
 Sehaefer was forty-one years of age.
 He had been quite Respondent of late owing to financial difficulties. There | was no one in the house when Mir | Schaefer, by means of horse rein | thrown over the stair banister, choked ! himself to death, yesterday. When the body was discovered life was extinct, The police and Medical Examiner White were immediately mo- tified.
 MT Schaefer leaves four children by his first wife, and his widow is about to become mother in short time He was married the second time about a year ago.
 Yesterday forenoon he had been out collecting bills and returned home at 12:3o. He told his wife to get dinner for the children and herself He was not well, he said, and would eat later.
 He went upstairs. and the wife SUD- posed he had gone to take short sleep. She busted herself in the kitchen, and when she had served the dinner went to see what was the matter with her hus band
 As she passed along the hall, which was dark, the young wife ran against the inanimate body of her husband and was terribly overcome by her shocking discovery
 MT. schaefer's nephew, who came to New Haven from Newark, N. J.. about two months ago, and Mrs. Schaefer's brother, who were at the dinner table, heard her cry, and, rushing out into the front hall, the sight of the dead man hanging down the side of the ban 1ster met their eyes, while on the floor just beneath him lay the wife, who had sunk to the floor in faint.
 Grasping the situation in an instant, the nephew rushed from the house, calling a police officer, and then ran to the office of Dr. W. H. Sanford The physician responded at once, but all his efforts were unavatling.
 Wren Mrs. Schaefer recovered from her faint she was weak and nervous, almost hysterfcal. Her delicate condi- ton united her to stand such a terri ble shock and she was put to bed by kind neighbors who soon arrived, and has remained there since.
 MT. Schaefer's father and mother and all his relatives excepting brother re- side in Germany. He came to this country about twenty-five years ago and for the last twenty years had lived in New Haven.
 Last Tuesday he sold out his business at the corner of Olive and State streets to H. E. Woodin of Centerville, and since that time he had several times re- marked to his family that he was sor- ry that he had done so.
 His wife, his brather- in-law and his nephew said last evening that for the past four days Mf Schaefer had not seemed like his old self, but acted pe- culiarly and they had known that his business affairs were preying heavily on his mind. Mrs, Schaefer says that on Sunday night her husband did not sleep at all, but continually walked the floor from one room to another When he returned with his nephew from col lecting he went on up stairs, while the nephew went in to dinner.
 It was stated by near friend of the family last night that MT. Schaefer car ried large life insurance, but what the | amount was could not be learned Mir. | Schaefer's brother is expected to arrive i in Newark to-day He Is the only | blood relative besides his children that | MT Schaefer had in America. No defi- l nite arrangements for the funeral had | been made last evening.