FULLER, Ernest 1886-1932

FULLER, HEWITT

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 3/30/2015 at 23:56:06

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Friday, August 12, 1932, Waterloo, Iowa]

NO INQUEST OVER MAN WHO HANGED HIMSELF TO DOOR

Ernest Fuller Uses Strap After Tie Breaks in First Attempt.

No inquest will be held concemlng the death of Ernest Fuller, 46, plasterer, whose lifeless body was discovered at 3:50 p. m. Thursday in an upstairs bedroom at 311 Eleventh Street East, suspended by a suitcase strap from a door top, Coroner E. C. McMillan stated Friday. The coroner made the announcement after questioning the several persons, who last saw Fuller alive.

Despondency over lack of'work was ascrlbed as the motive by Mrs. Jacob Zerwis, his landlady, who discovered the body.

Fuller had been downstairs conversing with other members of the family only a few minutes before he hanged himself, Jacob Zerwis stated. All during the past week he had been showing unusual melancholia.

Mr. Zerwis went to his room to make sure everything was all right shortley after he had gone upstairs. She fainted when she first saw the body.

He had placed a coat hanger over the top corner of the door, fastened the strap to the wire hanger, and buckled the other end about his neck. He then had slumped forward until his knees were almost on the floor.

Detective P. E. Walker found a broken necktie that Fuller evidently had first used in his attempt to hang, himself. "When the tie broke, he resorted to. the strap.

Altho Fuller had lived with Mr. and Mrs. Zerwis for 34 years, they knew but very little concerning his private life. He had been employed for many years as a plasterer with Chapman & Clark, contractors, and also had been employed as plasterer and laborer by Zerwis. He had been unemployed except for an occasional day or two of labor, since last winter, Zerwls said.

Fuller was born July, 5, 1886, in England, and had lived with the Zerwis family for all except one year of his residence in America, with the added exception of short visits away at various times.

Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Florence Hewitt, St. Charles, Minn., and his father, living in Canada.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Hlleman & Gindt chapel, by Rev. J. S. Lilly, pastor of Linden Methodist Episcopal Church. Burial will be at Hillcrest Cemetery.

Mrs. Hewitt, the sister, is expected to be here for the services.