Christian Shuh (died 1894)

SHUH, HUNTER, AHLERS, BECK, KEIL, ARNSDORF, WEYGHANDT, ABELN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 5/29/2009 at 06:50:46

Bellevue Herald, January 16, 1894, reprinted in the Jackson Sentinel, January 25, 1894.

CHRISTIAN SHUH, a wood-chopper and grubber aged 55 years, was found dead in his bed at the American House Thursday morning at about 10 o’clock. He had been drinking some the night before and exhibited to several a bottle of laudanum (opium) from which he took several draughts to ”make him sleep.” Coroner Hunter was notified and he impaneled a jury composed of John Ehlers, C. A. Beck and William Keil, who viewed the body and heard the testimony of John P. Arnsdorf, Chris Weyghandt and Nightwatch Abeln, and returned a verdict of suicide. He had purchased the laudanum of Hunter & Ahlers, but had been in the habit of doing so, consequently nothing was thought of it. He had taken about one and one-half ounces of the drug. As he had no relatives here the remains were placed in charge of Undertaker Kempter for burial, the interment being made at the north cemetery Friday morning.