Birth year inferred from obituary and census records
Subsequent funeral announcement indicated burial at Riverside
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GROWS TIRED OF LIFE
AGED OSHKOSH MAN COMMITS SUICIDE BY HANGING AT EARLY HOUR THIS MORMG AT - THE COUNTY FARM
Infirm with age and his mental faculties deserting him, Ferdinand Gaebler of this city committed suicide by hanging at an early hour this morning at the county farm at Winnebago.
While It Is believed that the tragedy took place at about 3 o'clock, the body was not discovered until between 6 and 7, when an attempt was made by Bert Hough, In charge of the ward, to awaken the old man for breakfast. When no response was given, the door was forced and the dead body was discovered.
Mr. Gaebler had fastened a wire to the cold air register high on the wall and to It had attached a piece of cord which he had looped about his neck. With one toot on his bed and the other on the floor, he had strangled himself to death. It is not known at just what time the suicide took place, but later one of the other inmates stated that he heard the old man moving about at about 3 o'clock this, morning. The officers of the institution were summoned at once, but life was extinct.
District Attorney B. McDonald was notified and, after making an examination, he decided no inquest was necessary, as It was clearly a case of suicide.
Mr. Gaebler was seventy-nine years of age. He came to this country two years after the civil war and had resided In Oshkosh for a great many years.
He is survived by three sons and a daughter, his wife having died several years ago.
He had been an Inmate of the institution upon two different occasions, expressing himself as desiring to go back, there, after being taken from the farm and given a home with members of his family
The sons are Robert Gaebler and Charles Gaebler, both of Oshkosh, and Fred Gaebler, whereabouts unknown, and the daughter Is Mrs. O. Huse, also of Oshkosh.
The funeral arrangements had not been determined upon ap to noon today.
The Oshkosh Northwestern
Sat. May 30, 1914 page 3
Subsequent funeral announcement indicated burial at Riverside
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GROWS TIRED OF LIFE
AGED OSHKOSH MAN COMMITS SUICIDE BY HANGING AT EARLY HOUR THIS MORMG AT - THE COUNTY FARM
Infirm with age and his mental faculties deserting him, Ferdinand Gaebler of this city committed suicide by hanging at an early hour this morning at the county farm at Winnebago.
While It Is believed that the tragedy took place at about 3 o'clock, the body was not discovered until between 6 and 7, when an attempt was made by Bert Hough, In charge of the ward, to awaken the old man for breakfast. When no response was given, the door was forced and the dead body was discovered.
Mr. Gaebler had fastened a wire to the cold air register high on the wall and to It had attached a piece of cord which he had looped about his neck. With one toot on his bed and the other on the floor, he had strangled himself to death. It is not known at just what time the suicide took place, but later one of the other inmates stated that he heard the old man moving about at about 3 o'clock this, morning. The officers of the institution were summoned at once, but life was extinct.
District Attorney B. McDonald was notified and, after making an examination, he decided no inquest was necessary, as It was clearly a case of suicide.
Mr. Gaebler was seventy-nine years of age. He came to this country two years after the civil war and had resided In Oshkosh for a great many years.
He is survived by three sons and a daughter, his wife having died several years ago.
He had been an Inmate of the institution upon two different occasions, expressing himself as desiring to go back, there, after being taken from the farm and given a home with members of his family
The sons are Robert Gaebler and Charles Gaebler, both of Oshkosh, and Fred Gaebler, whereabouts unknown, and the daughter Is Mrs. O. Huse, also of Oshkosh.
The funeral arrangements had not been determined upon ap to noon today.
The Oshkosh Northwestern
Sat. May 30, 1914 page 3
Birth year inferred from obituary and census records
Subsequent funeral announcement indicated burial at Riverside
___________
GROWS TIRED OF LIFE
AGED OSHKOSH MAN COMMITS SUICIDE BY HANGING AT EARLY HOUR THIS MORMG AT - THE COUNTY FARM
Infirm with age and his mental faculties deserting him, Ferdinand Gaebler of this city committed suicide by hanging at an early hour this morning at the county farm at Winnebago.
While It Is believed that the tragedy took place at about 3 o'clock, the body was not discovered until between 6 and 7, when an attempt was made by Bert Hough, In charge of the ward, to awaken the old man for breakfast. When no response was given, the door was forced and the dead body was discovered.
Mr. Gaebler had fastened a wire to the cold air register high on the wall and to It had attached a piece of cord which he had looped about his neck. With one toot on his bed and the other on the floor, he had strangled himself to death. It is not known at just what time the suicide took place, but later one of the other inmates stated that he heard the old man moving about at about 3 o'clock this, morning. The officers of the institution were summoned at once, but life was extinct.
District Attorney B. McDonald was notified and, after making an examination, he decided no inquest was necessary, as It was clearly a case of suicide.
Mr. Gaebler was seventy-nine years of age. He came to this country two years after the civil war and had resided In Oshkosh for a great many years.
He is survived by three sons and a daughter, his wife having died several years ago.
He had been an Inmate of the institution upon two different occasions, expressing himself as desiring to go back, there, after being taken from the farm and given a home with members of his family
The sons are Robert Gaebler and Charles Gaebler, both of Oshkosh, and Fred Gaebler, whereabouts unknown, and the daughter Is Mrs. O. Huse, also of Oshkosh.
The funeral arrangements had not been determined upon ap to noon today.
The Oshkosh Northwestern
Sat. May 30, 1914 page 3
Subsequent funeral announcement indicated burial at Riverside
___________
GROWS TIRED OF LIFE
AGED OSHKOSH MAN COMMITS SUICIDE BY HANGING AT EARLY HOUR THIS MORMG AT - THE COUNTY FARM
Infirm with age and his mental faculties deserting him, Ferdinand Gaebler of this city committed suicide by hanging at an early hour this morning at the county farm at Winnebago.
While It Is believed that the tragedy took place at about 3 o'clock, the body was not discovered until between 6 and 7, when an attempt was made by Bert Hough, In charge of the ward, to awaken the old man for breakfast. When no response was given, the door was forced and the dead body was discovered.
Mr. Gaebler had fastened a wire to the cold air register high on the wall and to It had attached a piece of cord which he had looped about his neck. With one toot on his bed and the other on the floor, he had strangled himself to death. It is not known at just what time the suicide took place, but later one of the other inmates stated that he heard the old man moving about at about 3 o'clock this, morning. The officers of the institution were summoned at once, but life was extinct.
District Attorney B. McDonald was notified and, after making an examination, he decided no inquest was necessary, as It was clearly a case of suicide.
Mr. Gaebler was seventy-nine years of age. He came to this country two years after the civil war and had resided In Oshkosh for a great many years.
He is survived by three sons and a daughter, his wife having died several years ago.
He had been an Inmate of the institution upon two different occasions, expressing himself as desiring to go back, there, after being taken from the farm and given a home with members of his family
The sons are Robert Gaebler and Charles Gaebler, both of Oshkosh, and Fred Gaebler, whereabouts unknown, and the daughter Is Mrs. O. Huse, also of Oshkosh.
The funeral arrangements had not been determined upon ap to noon today.
The Oshkosh Northwestern
Sat. May 30, 1914 page 3
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