Rosenmerkle, George (died 1913)

ROSENMERKLE

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Date: 7/18/2012 at 16:42:52

LeMars Sentinel
Tuesday, March 11, 1913

WAS TIRED OF LIVING
GEORGE ROSENMERKLE SWALLOWS DOSE OF STRYCHNINE
WAS LINCOLN TOWNSHIP FARMER
Young Man Had Threatened on Several Occasions to Take His Life When Things
Apparently Did Not Go to Suit Him.

George Rosenmerkle, a young farmer residing in Lincoln township, ended his
life by his own act on Sunday afternoon.

He was found lying beside a straw stack in a dying condition by his aged
father who had gone in search of him at the request of the younger man’s
wife. He lived long enough to tell his father he had swallowed a does of
strychnine. The elder man asked him where he got it and he laconically
replied, “Stole it.”

Young Rosenmerkle had frequently, it is asserted, threatened to commit
suicide and on Sunday following a quarrel with his mother-in-law and wife
about some money matters he intimated he was going to do away with himself.
No attention was paid to the threat. Rosenmerkle walked out into a field
and a little later his wife not seeing him anywhere about the place went to
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rosenmerkle Sr., who live nearby, and asked the old
man to go and see what George was doing. A doctor was summoned by telephone
from Moville and arrived in twenty minutes after the call but the young man
had succumbed to the effects of the poison by the time of the doctor’s
arrival.

Rosenmerkle was a native of Germany, and was about thirty-three years of
age. He leaves a wife and one little child. He has been employed by the
Wilson Bros. on the ranch Idlewild.

Coroner Beely was called down from LeMars to investigate the matter and
decided it was a plain case of suicide and no inquest was necessary.

The funeral of George Rosenmerkle will be held today.