Henry Musser Suicides - 1906

MUSSER, BOLLER, GOLDSMITH

Posted By: A.M.W. (email)
Date: 5/26/2004 at 23:12:00

4-26-1906 – Wayland News

Henry Musser Suicides

Last Thursday Henry Musser, who lived north of Olds, committed suicide by shooting and hanging himself. As we get the facts, Henry had been working in the field Thursday morning and came to the house about ten o’clock. He went into the house and go his rifle and went out. He took a rope about ten feet long and climbing a tree, he tied one end of the rope to a limb and the other end around his neck. Then standing in a fork of the tree about five feet below the limb to which he had tied the rope, he shot himself in the right temple. The rifle ball, which was a 32, passed clear through his head and came out on the left side at the back of his head. Remark was made about his not coming in to dinner but as we got the report, nothing special was though about it, his mother remarking that he would come in when he got hungry. But his mother, chancing to look from a window of another room saw him hanging in the tree. E. C. Jobe, the undertaker, being away on business, D.J. Boller went out Thursday afternoon with H. J. Goldsmith, who was in charge of Jobe’s store.

No cause can be assigned for the rash act as no reason is known why Henry should desire to die. He left no letter or statement.