The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
Albert Boyer a Milwaukee Tailor
Leaped Into the Lake From
the Simmons Docks
THOUGHT WIFE PURSUED HIM
Man is Pulled Ont by Factory Workers
and Later Was Landed in Jail. Will
be Examined Before the County
Judge as to His Sanity

Tired of living and laboring under
the halluciuation that the wife whom
he had deserted more than twenty
years ago was following him Albert
Beyer, a Milwaukee tailor ffty-fve
years of age, jumped into Lake Michi-
gan from the breakwater at the foot
Of Market street this morning in an
effort to commit suicide. The man
was rescued by men going to work at
the Simmons factory and he is now in
the county jail thinking the matter
over and Incidentally drying up his
clothes. Boyer came to Kenosha from
Milwaukee on Tuesday afternoon and
from the way he fought the men who
sought to rescue him it is pretty GER
tain that he had planned suicide. At
the jail he declares that he is tired'of
living and he was greatly annoyed be-
cause the men pulled him out Of the
water.
+ City Physician ]. B. Spa1ding was
sent to the jail to care for the man
after he had been taken into custody
by Police Officer Biennemann and to
Spalding Boyer told his strange story.
He said he was fifty FIVE years of age
| and that his home had been at Elkhart
Lake but that recently he had been
working for Doctor Brothers in Mill
waukee. He declared that he had de-
serted his wife and two children at
Elkhart Lake in 1886 and that since
that time the woman had been follow
ing him. He declared that she fol-
lowed him to Milwaukee and that she
had secured the aid of man who was
helping her to run him down and kill
him. Boyer also claimed that he was
i alleged to have assaulted a man in
Milwaukee and that band of Milwau-
kee people had followed him to Keno
sha Tuesday night. He got on a
street car to get away from them but
later he heard one of them talking in
a seat near him and he jumped from
the car.
i 1t is certain that the man jumped
from street car Tuesday night, but
4 it is thought that the remainder of the
Estory is halucipation. Early this
morning the man was seen running
along East Market street. It is sup
posed that he had been wandering
about the city during the night, and
that the loss of sleep coupled with his
mental trouble had made him desper-
ate. He ran directly to the break
! water and jumped into the lake. The
j water is not more than four feet deep
/ at this point and the man was Houn~
4 dering about in the sand on the bot.
i tom of the lake when the men went to
his res cue. He declared that he wanted
to die and spurned all efforts to help
j him out of the water. He started to
wade out into the deeper water, when
he was forcib1y carried up and placed
4 on the breakwater. The police were
j notified of his actions and Officer
Biennemann went down and placed
him under arrest.
1 DIR. Spalding reported the case to
i County Judge Slosson and recon-
mended that the man be held at the
county jail for a number of days in
order to give the officials some time to
study his condition. If the doctors
and the counf officers are of the
opinion that Le is insane he will be
committed to the state hospital. In
the meantime an effort is being made
to find the friends of the man in Mil
waukee.