John Dorch died 1868

DORCH, HAUBENISTEL

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Date: 2/10/2016 at 19:12:23

The Herald, Sunday January 12, 1869

SUICIDE AT MANCHESTER

A Man Found Dead Hanging to a Tree –
The Affair Involved in a Mystery

Mr. Carter’s dramatic troupe have been given the citizens of Manchester a series of performances, consisting of tragedies, comedies and faces. But the citizens of that place and vicinity have had presented to them, not as tragedy, but a suicide, the victim being John Dorch, who was found hanging from a limb of a tree in a field three miles north of town.

He was an Englishmen by birth and came to this country when quite young and was a resident of New York for some years. He came to Manchester a few years ago and married a widow by the name of Haubenistel, whose husband had been dead but two or three days, when he married her. He seemed to live in happiness and was a hardworking man. –Last summer he moved to Calmar, Clayton County, where he had a job plastering, and while there his wife died. She left three little children to mourn her loss.

He is said to have a family in New York. A few days ago he received a letter and has been depressed in spirits ever since. The letter cannot be found. He had been missed since Tuesday last and search had been made, but without avail. On Saturday a man driving through a field and in passing under a tree a limb knocked his hat off. He jumped out of his conveyance and in picking up his hat he spied another lying close by and on looking up saw the owner of it hanging to a branch of the tree.