Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-30
BULLET In HIS BRAIN
n T.. KRoGsJAARD COMMITS SUI
eide IN MANCHESTER.
TAKES HIS LIFE WHILE ALONE
Deing Left In His Room. He Gets
Pistol and shoots IIImscif-SiclS
md Distressed Over Loss OF His
HeIntives-Man Of Some Means.
md Distressed

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| Manchester. The instrument OF death
was 32-callbre revolver. from which a
ball was sent into the brain.
The antecedents Of this deed OF self
destruction are as sad as the deed Itself
broken down health and a body crazed
with grief because of the loss of all whom
he loved or who cared for him. The
consciousness OF this and acute and deadly
pain drove him TO madness and to death.
Mr.. Krogsjaard was stopping at Mr..
Ellis's place because Mr.. Christian Bread
run, cousin, was boarding there. They
were occupying the same room, and Mr..
Breadruff had just stepped out for a
moment when he returned to witness the
CHASTITY sight of his cousins lying prone
upon the floor his head pillowed on his
own brains. and the smoking weapon
lying at his side. Without going in, but
gasping and springing back with horror.
he went to find aid. Mr. Ellis, Mr.. Tin
gle, and several other gentlemen who
were in the house returned with the
cousin to the room. A messenger was
Immediately dispatched for DR.. John w
not moved, and no one entered the room
until the Coroner reached the scene. DR.
BrodnaX had it removed from the floor
to the bed near by, and made q careful
examination. When this was made and
he had heard all the facts bearing upon
the deed. he deemed an inquest unneces-
sary, and turned the remains over to
Mr.. Breadruff. The body was removed
to the undertaking of J. Leroy
sutherland, in Richmond and prepared
for burial. Yesterday al 2:55 o'clock the
remains were taken over the Richmond
and Petersburg railroad to Chester, thence
TO Ochre, seven miles distant. for burial.
The interment will take place this after
noon at o'clock, in the burying-ground
ON the farm of another cousin-Mr. Con-
rad Breadruff.
HIS ONLY LIVING RELATIVES.
These two first cousins complete the
living kinsmen Of the deceased. A few
years ago his brother. mother, three
nephews, and a sister--the idol of his life
were all contributors to his happi-
ness. Death came like a blighting breath
upon them, and one by one they
joined the great majority. The last and
best loved to die was his sister and
the weight of that sorrow was never
lifted from him. Though still in the
prime of life, disease was creeping on
MIN. Consumption was eating away his
life, and the quick throbbings Of his heart
bade him know that his days were num-
bered. This, with the growing feeling
that he had nothing to live for since the
death of the sister, was more than ne
could bear. Last summer he gave UP all
business and retired to his cousins farm
in Chesterfield county, to spend his days
N a avub
but his health grew worse and evidences
Of the effect Of brain-fever, which he had
in early youth began to return. From
that time watch, more or less close, was
kept upon him. Last Wednesday he said !
he wanted TO come to Richmond, and in |
the mean time would visit Petersburg /
and his other cousin in Manchester. Mr. |
Breadruff sent his little son to Richmond |
with him to see that no harm came to |
him. Friday, accompanied by the lad, |
he visited a physician on west Grace |
street and was directed by him to the |
Old Dominion Hospital. Here the child /
lost sight Of him and returned 10 Mr..
Elliss house in Manchester. Mr. Krogs-
jaard spent Friday night at the hospital,
but Saturday morning, Mr.. Breadruff,
who boarded with Mr.. Ellis, and who is
employed at the Southern shops, learning
from his nephew where his cousin was
went 10 the hospital and brought him
away with him. Saturday afternoon the
boy returned TO his fathers home, leaving
Mr.. KrOgsjaard in charge Of his Manches-
ter cousin.
KEPT HIS BED ON SUNDAY.
Sunday morning found Krogsjaard too
unwell to get up, and he took break
fast in bed. He did not eat any dinner,
and suffered with increasing nausea. His
cousin, occupying the same room with
him, did what he could to relieve him,
went down the street at his request and
bought some lemons. When the lemons
came he did not want them. Mr.. Bread
ruff remained i'm the room all the after
noon, until about $50 o'clock, when he
went out for a moment, before doing so
telling the sick man TO get up and battle
and dress and he would feel better after
supper. Mr.. KrogsjaaTd was lying on
the bed. In less than minutes the
finsman returned, and seeing that the
bed was not occupied, started To- come
back to look for its former occupant,
thinking he had gone out in a fit Of de-
'angement. He smelled something burn
n.y. however-powder ne thought-and
urned again TO the room. Looking TO
he floor this time, the CHASTITY spectacle
# the bleeding man, already in the throes
If death, met his eyes. He was Mortified
md dazed for the moment, but recovering,
Harmed the house. There were a num-
,er of boarders In the house at the time,
nd it was supper time, but little supper
vas eaten there that night. First the
'oroner came, then the undertaker's |
wagon. A feeling of awe, increased by
ne quiet of a Sunday evening, gathered
pon ALL as the consciousness of the
resence of death grew on them.
The revolver used was lying on a shelf
4 the room. 1t is a blue-jacket piece,
nd was picked up in Forest Hill Park
nd brought by some one to the
ouse. 1t is supposed that when his friend .
1T the room he got up, perhaps attempt
d TO approach the bowl of water, but .
ank back 10 a chair. Then he spied the
'eapon. The ball entered the right side
( the head. just above the ear. and
rashing through the skull, lost itself in ,
is brain.
A NATIVE OF NORWAY. :
The letters found by the Coroner on his t
erson lead TO the conclusion that the I
t was premeditated. Among the pa [
,rs were two checks made payable TO e
onrad Breadruff and drawn on the Pc s.
rsburg Saving and Insurance Company v
lie for $7S75 and the other for SS2 also, y
letter addressed to Messenberg & Co., h
o. IL Willoughby street, Brooklyn, N. l., d
ling them TO pay the funeral expenses
The two cousins say deceased came TO
is country when years old from Chris
ma, Norway, and since reaching man :,
od he has acquired considerable means. -
e has bank deposits, they say, in Brook
n and Newark, and 500 acres OF coal
nd in Mcdowell county, valued at so g.