Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-03-23
REEDSBURC MAN
HANGS HIMSELF:
CHICAGO JAIL
BrOOding Over Crime With Which
He Was Charged Is Believed to
Have Caused NadIer's Action

Fred Nader formerly of Reedsburg,
held in connection with the murder
of Solomon Scharfer, 2427 N. Kedzie
ave-, committed suicide Sunday by
hanging himself in the incommunicade
cell at the Warren av. police station.
Chicago. Police had been endeayor-
ing to obtain a confession from him.
Nadlers body was found suspended
in the cell by Lookup Keeper John
McGonnigal.
The accused man had tied together
his overcoat belt, waist belt and neck
tie.
Standing on a bench, he had fast
ened one end of the improvised rope
about a cell bar overhead. With the
other end he encircled his neck and
tS@~ jumped from the bench.
Brooding over the murder he had
committed while under the influence
OF moonshine is claimed to be. the
cause of his suicide.
The man he killed, Solomon Sohar-
fer, was an importer, living at 2427
North Kedzie avenue, Chicago. 1t was
last Thursday evening, Scharfer and
his brother, Harry, were motoring
west in Jackson boulevard. At Oak
ley boulevard Nader jumped on the
running board of their car, flashed a
star, and said:
I'm a policeman"
Then he got in the car. At Western
avenue he drew a revolver, pressed it
against Solomon Scharfer's neck, and
ordered him to hold up his hands.
Scharfer instinctively turned. Nader
fired. Death was instantaneous. Har-
ry jumped from the car and notified a
nearby policeman.
Called Self Policeman
Nader was arrested. He insisted his
name was Howden and that he was
stationed at Town Hall, in which pre-
cinct is located the Murphy hospital.
At that station it was learned that
Nader had met Policeman Arthur
Howden, whose beat included the hos
pital. 1t was Howden who identified
Nader
Nader, who, ambulance physicians
said, had the worst moonshine jag
they had ever encountered, did not
begin to sober up until late Saturday
night. Then he asked where he was.
He was told that he had killed a man.
He said he had no recollection of any
thing,
Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock he
called for Lookup Keeper John Nc
GOnigal and asked for a drink of
water McGonigal said he seemed to
be depressed.
Found Dead Hour Later
An hour later, when McGonigal
went to get the glass, he found Mad
Ter hanging from an iron crossbeam.
Born in 1896
Nader was born and raised in
Reedsburg and recently went to Chi
cago where he found a position as
watchman at the new John B. Muir
ply hospital there. He was born in
the Second City in 1896. He and his
brother, Emil who was killed i'm
with LQ6 bdTdDOO-
Reedsburg national guard company
and both served overseas. Fred Mad
Ter fought in the battles of Chateau
Thierry, the Argonne and others. He
had an excellent war record while in
the service with the exception of one
or two incidents done while under the
influence Of liquor. Nader was on
parole in Baraboo at the time of his
death in Chicago, according to dis
trict attorney Fl. ]. Bohn for mis-
demeanors committed while a subject
to intoxicants.
He is son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Nader, elderly folks, who make their
home in Reedsburg. The remains will
probably be brought to the Second
City.