Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-01-02
EUGENE A. OSHA
COMMITTEES Suicide at Tomb OF South.
view Cemetery Early Saturday.

| EUGENE n. OS0A
COMMITTEES Suicide at Tomb OF South
view Cemetery Early Saturday.
Charles Hubbard wss taking his cream
to the Brigham creamery about Q o'clock
Saturday morning from his farm below
the Lamson place and had just driven up
the sand hill south of the cemetery when
gruesome sight met his eyes.
In front of the tomb was stretched the
figure of a man, fiat on his back, his feet
crossed, his arms straight by his side and
his head close to the stone step in front
of the door.
The body lay diagonally to the door
and on the south side Of the step. A
closer examination revealed bullet hole
through the right temple and 38-calibre
revolver was found where it would natur-
ally have dropped from the right hand
after the desperate deed. Near the revolver
was a derby hat. The body was we'll
dressed, had an overcoat buttoned tight
around it and good shoes and new rub
! bers on the feet.
No one in the crowd that soon collected
recognized the man until Clarence o.
Osha approached and at the first glance
thought of hi, brother, Eugene, whom he
had not seen since Eugene removed to
Waltham, Mass, eight years ago. Un-
willing to confirm his horrible suspicion
| by another glance and feeling almost
faint at the thought of its being true, he
turned away and retraced his steps to
Pleasant street where he met his brother,
Arthur. To the latter's inquiry il he
knew the man, he answered, 81 do not
feel sure; do you go up there and see if
| you recognize him. This Arthur did
and at len uyae satisfied that IL was in
deed his brother, Eugene.
On the body was postal card having
on the address side:-"E. A. Oshs, 80
Pond street, Waltham, Mass. Finder of
this card will oblige me very much.
| (over)." On the reverse was written,
with the lead pencil he had used on the
other side, the following directions:-
''Kindly turn body over to the undertake
er, who will kindly take care of same.
Place in tomb until spring and don't let
any of my folks see me, and don't ever
open the box after it is once closed. Get
your pay out of the insurance policy in
my pocket. Write to E. r. Skinner, 681
Main street, Walthsm, Mass" Then the
card being filed, he had turned to the adj
dress side again and written across one
end:-"The extreme south end of lot is
for me. Positively no ceremony at any
time"
There were also found letter, stamped,
sealed and addressed to his wife, Mrs.
Lucia Osha, 80 Pond street, Waltham,
Mass. an insurance policy for $1,000, rs
cents in money and an empty vial OF CO.
define tablets that had been half full when
he left his home in Waltham Friday.
\ The letter, in which some bills were en-
closed, gave his wife directions about
what to do, about the children and rec
commended certain lawyer in Waltham
for counsel should she have any difficulty
1 in securing the insurance. At the bottom
of the letter a few lines were penciIed,
probably just before the fatal shot was
fired, for the writing had shaky look
different from the rest.
Three years ago Mr.. Osha was injured
on the electric cars and since that time
had had intervals of melancholy in which
he had once or twice threatened to make
way with himself. He had lately been
working the greater part of the day in the
Waltham Watch factory, then barbering
in the early evening hours and after that
studying until midnight, and perhaps lat
er, in order to become proficient in mas
sage treatment in which he and a medical
friend of his were much interested. IN
doubtedly the strain was too great for his
mental balance.
His brother, Guy, from Lawrence,
Mass, was with him at Christmas and
thought then that he appeared hardly ma
tural but attached no especial significance
| to his manner. Mrs. Osha also noticed
his peculiar demeanor during the days
| following Christmas till he left the house
Friday, muttering vaguely that he might
not be back that day, when she ques-
| toned him as to his return.
! He left Waltham on a train which en-
abled him to reach here by the O'Clock
express Saturday morning and must have
gone at once to the cemetery, in which
are buried his first wife, Agnes Ducette of
| Nova Scotia, and two children of his Sec
ond marriage. He laid himself down and
fred the first shot, but the bullet only
grazed his forehead and imbedded itself
in board of the cemetery fence from
which it was afterwards dug. The sec
ond bullet entered his right temple and
/ brought instant death. g. II. Grant,
who came up from Bethel on the night
train, delayed little in starting for
home, and heard the first shot as he was
at the foot of the Prospect street hill on
South Pleasant street. A second report
was heard when he reached the top of the
lillian interval of very few minutes.
Eugene A. Osha was born in Roxbury,
Jan. 30, 1870, one OF the eight sons OF
William Osha, now living in Braintree.
His surviving brothers are Clarence o.
and Arthur of Randolph, Richard and
Galen of Braintree, Glenn of New Haven,
Conn.,, Ben of Worcester, Mass, and Guy
of Lawrence, Mass.
His second wife is Lucia, daughter OF
Paul Wagner of Braintree, and she is left
with three children-s daughter of IL, q
son of 9, and q little girl of s. Mrs. Osha
and the children arrived Saturday night
and after the funeral Monday went to her
fathers in Brsintres with Mrs. Wagner,
who came down to the service.
About ten years ago Mr.. Osha had .
farm near the D. H. Chadwick place on
Fish hill and left it to engage in barber
ing at Bethel. He was there only . short
period before he removed to Waltham. 2
The funeral was held at l O'Clock Mon
day afternoon ct Bethany church, Rev.
Fraser Metzgsr officiating, and the re-
| mains were placed in the family lot in