The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-16
BODY FOUND IN THE LAKE
CORPSE OF c. f. BUCHHALTER BE- MEATH WATERS OF FASHIONABLE.

MEATH WATERS OFSALTOSSTALL. He Disappeared from Ills Home at no
 Court Street Wednesday Afternoon
 Had Been Slightly Deranged Mentally
 for Some Time-Leaves Wife and Tive
 Small Children.
 The body of Charles F. Buchhalter, whose disappearance on Wednesday last alarmed his family and friends, was found yesterday about noon in Lake Saltonstall, near the upper end of the lake, he evidently having com- mitted suicide. Mr. Buchhalter until about ten days ago conducted the sa- loon at 112 Court street, but his health being poor he sold out the business. For about year he had been afflicted with slight mental Arrangement ap- parent to his friends. The malady had been growing worse in the past few months and it was thought by his wife and friends that if he rested from busi-
 
 restored.
 s Last Wednesday afternoon about ? o'clock he left his home at 110 Court street, telling his wife that he was go ing to Whitneyville to visit Charles N Hertler, a sausage manufacturer, from whom he had bought goods. Nothing S thn11oht nf tha 111atfar 1lOti late Wednesday night, when, as he had not returned, his wife became anxious and knowing his mental condition, feared < that some mishap had befallen him. A Thursday morning he had not returned I and the police were notified No in- | telligence was received, however, as to 4 his whereabouts until yesterday, when X the body was found in Lake Salton- stall and identified as his by papers x and letters found in the pockets. # MT. Hertler stated yesterday after VI noon that MT. Buchhalter had not vis- x tied at his house and that he had not % seen him since he left home Wednes- # day.
 ~ The body was found shortly after g noon yesterday. Two men who had # been fishing up the lake on returning # to the boathouse at the lower end, in l# formed MT. Granniss, whose duty it is N to see that no refuse is thrown in the M lake, that on their way up the lake # they had seen man sitting on the x bank close to the water, but on their N return he had disappeared. MT. Gram aM miss went up the lake to investigate sA and was shown by the two men the sH spot where they had seen the man sit M ting Mr. Granniss began looking # about the spot and finally saw the < body lying on the bottom near the # shore in several feet of clear water. M It was fshed out and Dr. Gustavus " Eliot of this city, medical examiner for s# East Haven, was. summoned. After # examining the body and finding thereon " no marks or bruises indicating foul @ play, gave a certificate of death by 7 drowning due either to suicide or acci- l dent, probably the former. The body I was brought to this city and taken to EM the undertaking rooms of Theodore " Keller & Son on Orange street. X MT. Buchhalter was born in Witten- I berg, Germany, and was about forty
 years of age. He has no relatives, be-
 yond his immediate family, living in
 this country, although a brother died < here about two years ago. He leaves a swife and five children, the oldest of whom is not more than eleven years saof age. He belonged to several Ger
 man societies, among them being Court NHerman, Foresters; New Haven con- Nclave No. 79, V. G. D. s. W. M., and the RNew Haven Schwaber Kranken Unter- 8stuetzungs Verein.
 KS Arrangements for the funeral had not syet been completed last night. # It was said last night by one of MT $ sBuchhalter's friends that a short time aAago he invested in some property, and Ethat the investment not turning out so ewell as he thought it would, the mat
 ter preyed upon his mind, making him
 morose and Respondent
 1t is curious fact that one of the
 proprietcrs of the saloon at No. 112 SCourt street before MT. Buchhalter, MT
 Lenhart, also committed suicide. s It was reported last evening that MT aABuchhalter was seen to pass the post soffice in East Haven Thursday after ssnoon, and was seen near the lake yes IHterday forenoon about 10 o'clock.