Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-14
ROBERT J. BUCHWALD, OF GEN.
TRIAL CREW, DEsPoNDENT,
33.G KILLS HIMSELF.
IMAGINED THAT HE WAS
70 BE DISCHARGED
Thouoht III Will Was Held Against
Him For Pro German Expressions
Cuts Throat From Ear to Ear With
Razor and Dies in Few Minutes
Funeral to 30 Monday.

Slashing his throat from ear to ear
with a razor, Robert J. Buchwald, BUS
Bromley street, a fireman, committed
suicide at the central station at 7:lo
Friday evening. He lived only few
minutes after committing the act and
before medical assistance could be OF
any aid. Dependency, it is believed
caused by imagining that he was the
object Of plotters who harbored Ill Will
against him because Of his pro- German
expressions. and who sought to nave
him discharged from the department, Is
thought to have been the cause.
In a note he left at the station ad-
dressed to his wife he used the express
sions Il can't stand it any longer. I've
been crazy for month or two he
babe Mrs. Buchwald good bye and toid
his son Lawrence to be good TO MS
mother, Coroner A. r. Lynn, after IN
vestigating decided an inquest was I'M
necessary. The body was removed TO
the Pursel morgue and later was tax
en- to the Buchwald home.
Sewers Both Jugulars.
With one or more probably two
jugular veins and wind pipe then plac-
ed the razor on q shelf before he drop
ped to the floor Of the bath room IN
the second floor of the station.
He had gone from his locker to the
bath room only a moment before John
w Melton. a member Of the station
crew. who was in his locker nearby,
heard Buchwald pass into the bath
room and heard him speak. Melton
thought Buchwald was addressing
some one thru the window. but later
he was confident Buchwald had said
Good bye Billy" Buchwald gasped
once or twice after DR.. H. H. Nichols,
who was called, arrived.
Breeding Over Imagnations.
For years those who knew Buchwald
best have regarded him as Of a nervous
Temperament and even queer, but in
recent months he had developed q
mental popularity that DR.. Lynn de-
scribes as a type Of mental derange-
ment.
Buchwald was Of German descent,
and, before the United States declared
war. was outspoken in favor of the
German cause. He grew to imagine
that i'll will was held against him for
that He likewise imagined that some
one wanted to get him" and that he
was going to be discharged from the
department. He spoke to members OF
the new council regarding whether or
not he was going to lose his job. He
was assured that he was not. He spoke
of his fears in that regard to Chief An
Ia 70 Friday nveDinR
Just as he had done repeatedly before,
but the chief said he assured him that
so long as there was no cause for COM
plant he would not be discharged. An
derson said Buchwald, who had been a
member of the paid department since
Oct %. 1908, was a splendid workman.
He had been a member of the old vol
unteer department for twelve years be-
fore the paid department was organ
ICED.
Was Native Of City.
Buchwald was native Of this city
and was so years Of age. He was born
here Feb. 8, 1857 and his death is the
first to occur In family Of twelve
children in fifty years
Six brothers and five sisters survive
him. They are Charles A., Frank. Fred
Harry L.. Mrs Fred c. Jones, and Mrs
John Hockridge, Of this city: Theodore
Of Clemens, Will, Of Newark, n. J.;
Mrs. May Leins, Mapleton; Mrs. Julia
Bernhard Buffalo, n. Y, and
Mrs. Amelia Lawrence, Of Butte Mont
Mrs. Buchwald. who was Miss Cert
rude Hasenstab, Of this city, before hel
marriage in 1892, and one son, Law
renee, aged ~ years, also survive him
Buchwald was member Of the Cath
1iic Order OF Foresters and the Wood
men Of the World. The funeral will be
held from St. Mary's church Monday
morning at o'clock. and burial will
be in Riverside.