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Geneseo Republic; May 26 1893

  Peter Krause, of the third ward, in this city, committed suicide Thursday morning, May 25th, 1893, by shooting himself through the head with a rifle.  His wife had noticed nothing unusual regarding him except his complaint that the men at the brick and file yards (Mowbray & Lowes',  where he had been employed for 11 years), were down on him.  He got up as usual about 5 a.m.  His wife arose an hour later and found him lying on the floor dead.  The discharge of the rifle, which was a little flobert gun, had not been noticed by her or the children.  She at once gave the alarm. 

Coroner McArthur impanneled a jury as follows; S.J. Arnett, Sam Ott, H.G. Sommers, F. Bollen, Benj. Sand and Jacob Roos yesterday forenoon and  proceded with an inquiry which developed nothing to show why he committed this deed except the hallucination that the men he worked with were his enemies.  Mr. Lowes and several of his employes testifiled that there was not the remotest ground for such feeling,  but that they had noticed his mania on the subject, as he had several times asked the men when they were going to kill him.  Deceased leaves a wife and four children.  He was an industrious man and his act must have been the result of a disordered brain. 

 

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