The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-07-10
w. H. Lambader Commits Suicide i'm
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hallSaS city.
Last Sundays Kansas City Times
contained the following particulars of
the suicide of Mr.. VIM. Ii. Lambader,
who recently resided in this city, during
which time he conducted a meat market
in the Gruber Block
William ii. Lambader, an old and
well-known resident of this city, COM
mitted suicide at 5 o'clock Saturday
afternoon by hanging himself with a
clothesline to a joist IN the barn in the
rear of his residence, at I'LL Troost
avenue. Dependency on account of
continued financial reverses is believed
to have been the cause.
NJ Lambader was i'll Tony Nor
mOrs saloon, at Eighteenth and Troost
avenue, at 4 O'Clock yesterday after
noon, and appeared to be in the best of
spirits. lie talked with Mr.. Mormon
for some time, and they drank a glass
of beer together. He then went to IL
barber shop and was shaved. His dead
body was discovered at Z o'clock by his
daughter Minnie. Miss Lambader and
Miss Frances, of Lexington. who was
visiting her, had been driving during
the afternoon. On their return to the
L.ambader residence they met Mr.. NIehl,
Il real estate dealer, who is a friend of
theirs. and he and Miss Lambader took
the rig around to the barn. The young
woman opened the barn door and saw
the lifeless form of her father hanging
from the jOiSt; she ran screaming into
the yard, and her cries attracted the
attention of VIM. Powell. who lives at
17I3 TrOost avenue. MI. Powell went
to the barn and assisted MIR. Nehl in
cutting down the body.
"Mr. Lambader had gone about the
preparation for eli -deStruction with
much deliberatiOn. He secured the
%clothesline and a cracker box on the
back porch. He placed the box on the
floor of the barn, and removed his hat
and coat and hung them on a nail, and
removed his boots and placed them side
by side near the Goor; then mounting
the box he fastened the rope securely to
the joist, and, forming a loop, adjusted
it about his neck. Kicking the box
from beneath his feet, he swung off, his
toes almost touching the floor. Death
evidently came quickly, as there was no
evidence of a struggle. Mr.. Lambader
weighed over 200 pounds, and the
weight of his body caused death to en-
sue quickly from strangulation.
MIR. Lambader was SO years old, and
came to Kansas City from Lebanon,
Ohio, thirty-one years ago. For many
years he conducted a meat market at
Fifteenth and Grand avenue, and owned
the property on the south side or FIJI
tenth street, from Grand venue to
MCGEE. When Fifteenth street was
widened Mr.. Lambader received Sl5,-
600 damages for the portion of his prop
erty condemned for street purposes. AT
that time he was estimated to be worth
$50 600. lie erected a brick block on
his property at Fifteenth and Grand
avenue, and purchased the residence of
William NJ. Quinan, at Ninth and For
est avenu About four years ago he
purchased a farm near Odessa, Mo,
and started a packing house and meat
market at Lexington. He continued
i'm business until March of the present
year, when he sold his farm and bust
ness. again losing heavily, and returned
to Kansas City. He opened a meat
market at Eighteenth and Olive streets.
which he was conducting at the time of
his death.
Mr.. Lambader leaves a wife and four
children. three Sons and one daughter.
Mrs. Lambader was at the meat
market at Eighteenth and Olive at the
time of the suicide, and did not learn of
her husbands action until some time
after the body vas discovered"