The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-06
|NeS SELF IN
OOD|s; BODY IS
FOUND BY BOYS
asles Strobbe, Moline Belgian
Despssdeat ever Wifs's Illness,
Ends LIE.


rsree Rock Island boys, picking
,,srAerries yesterday afternoon,
sound the body Of man hanging
1rom . tree in q grove at Forty
I'm street and Twenty-fourth ave-
~. Articles in his pockets identi-
1ed him Is Charles Strobbe, aged
IA 1870 Third street. Moline.
nsspopdence over the mental col
Isnae OF his wife, who became an
inmats Of Watertown hospital two
months ago. was assigned by a cor
eners Jury this morning as the rea-
con for his suicide.
Wilson Ingold. aged Is, 1923 Six
tsenth avenue; and Elmo Schultz,
area IL, 1856 F0rty-fourth street,
we're witnesses at the inquest. Ber-
nard Cassell, aged IL, 1927 Efgh.
feapth avenue, was with them and
also at the inquest.
At about 1 o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon, Wilson said. the three boys
we're going about in the woods at
Forty-fifth street and Twenty
fpurth avenue, looking for raspber-
RES. Bursting through some un-
derbrush they came to little
clearing, and suddenly saw a mans
figure in front Of them. He was in
4 strange attitude and they became
little afraid.
Frightened, Run.
Upon looking closer they saw
that he was suspended from q
branch of the tree with rope
about his neck, and that he was
apparently dead. They turned ant
ran In fright, shouting to two more
boys who were in the little wood
to leave with them.
A neighbor, w. o. Hughes, wa.
called, and he in turn notified thu
police. who cut the body down an;
took it to Hodgson & Hoban's flu
neral parlors, where the inquest wa
held this morning by Coroner job!
Y. Maberry.
Strobbe left home at about
o'clock Tuesday afternoon, accord
ing to his brother, Elior Strobbe
N2 Twentieth avenue, Moline
Flor saw him last about 10 day
ago, at which time Charles wa
melancholy over the condition O
his wife and the fact that the fiv
children were practically mother
less. He made no mention of an
intention of killing himself, how
ever.
The children went to Elior'
house Tuesday afternoon when af'
er some hours their father had nc
returned.
II have four Of my own sal
the brother, but nine is not S
many"
Here 16 Years.
Charles Strobbe was born i
Ruysselede, West Flanders, Bel
GUM, Sept. s, 1869. He came t
Anksrfca in 1900 and after fv
years in Indiana went to Moline
where he had since resided. Fl
vas a molder by trade, working i
various Moline plants, recently til
JOnn Deere plant ana LOT the las
several weeks the Frank foundry.
He was a member of Sacre
Heart Catholic church, Moline. H
was married in Belgium % year
ago, his wife accompanying him
this country. During the tw
months she was in WATERFOWL, hi
husband had been visiting he
with the children.
Besides the brother, Elio
Charles Strobbe is survived by
brother and two sisters in Belgium
his widow, and five children
Mary, II; Maddalene, Is; Marguel
lite, II; Celeste, 10. and CAMEL,
Burial East Moline.
Funeral services are to be hel
At the Moeller undertaking PAL
lors tomorrow morning at -
o'clock and at 8 o'clock in the Sac
red Heart church, Moline. Buria
will be in st. Mary's cemeter.
East Moline. Rev. John B. Guile
mans, Moline, will conduct tn
services.