Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — Peculiar Method of Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Peculiar Method of Suicide.

In Glasow. not far from Berlin, a farm hand named Dehmel chose a peculiar method of ending his life. Ho had committed a theft, the theft had been discovered, and when the police were' on the point of arresting him he escaped and climbed up to the top of a pine about a century old and 300 feet high. There he used his suspend ers in hanging himself. The suspenders broke, and the man fell a distance of? about 150 feet, where his neck struck a pointed branch, causing instant death. The corpse stuck fast up there, however.