The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-25
Suicide of julius Teifert, IS
by Hanging, Discovered
%. s.fs.5 e This Morning.
ILL., HEALTH IS CAUSE
Melancholy Over Ill Health
He Ends Life in a
Grewsome Manner.

Hanging in dark corner Of the
BASEMENT Of lTbe home at 526 Grand
view avenue, the body Of Julius Teif-
ert, aged CD, long a resident of Keno
sha, was8 -f6Hxd just before seven
o'clock this Morning by his daughters,
who had started a search for him when
herwas found missing from his room
He had ended his life by hanging
HIMSELF as later shown by the investi-
CATION carried on by Coroner Truman
T.6Pasker.B E3h t
TIE, Body. was, Still warm when it
was found orbut LIE was extinct, Civ
ing evidence that the rash deed had
been coEnglitSed probably about an
hour before the body was found. The
remains were taken to the Hansen
Funeral home where they were pre-
pared3fo burialal
Had Been in Ill Health.
For several Years the deceased had
suffered from progressive muscular
atrophg; fai very gpainful form of rheu-
matisif ahdiit is believed that he end
ed his life in period of melancholia
caused by his i'll health. While at no
time during his life had he expressed
any jptimation that he planned sui
eide or that he wished to die, he had
several weeks ago declared at times
that he was unable to stand the pain
longer. It Is believed that he was
taken7witba an attack of his illness and
became temporarily deranged because
Of the Excessive pain.
ON Thursday evening he had been
as cheerful Jas usual He had made
hisYhomeg sintesithe death of his wife
with !, his, son, -Ewald J. Teifert, and
with his daughter, Mrs. Ada A,
Voight,z theqtwo families in the dou-
BILE apartment at the above address
He had volunteered to stay home with
the children2during the evening while
other members Of the family went to
a. meeting at the Mckinley school.
sItaaT Put Children to Bed.
Upon returning it was found that
he had put the children to bed as usu-
al and it was taken for granted that
hephad gone to his room. This morn
ing when he failed to answer the call
for breakfast, his daughter-in-law
Mrs. Ewald, Teifert went to search for
him and found His room empty. She
called MrsrfVpight and together they
startediothe search which resulted in
the grewsome finding of his body be
hind the furnace. 1t was so conceal
ed that the sommho had cared for the
furnace this morning had failed to see
it, a9kiH Ial
He was fully dressed, having evil
IDENTIFY. been unable to sleep. He had
worn a lpairb. of house slippers which
made it. possible for him to slip to
the basemen Without arousing other
membersaof the family.
Taking a small piece of clothes-line
rope he had hanged himself from a
rafter Hisffeet barely did not touch
the ground and it is believed that he
must have been strangled to death
rather than TO 1have broken his neck
BY ths9falla,,sa,.554s.
On fading the body, the daughters
were4sospfostpated that they summon
ed a nefghbor, Il. III. Stratton, who felt
the pulse and found the man to be
I dead, Later DR., Gephart and Coroner
ParkerxeweTe 4summond and both de-
ciaredo that the father had probably
been dead more than an hour when his
body was faunda There will be no for
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