Frank Kasparek,
A Bohemian living on McMurray's land, about four miles south-east of here, took arsenic last Friday night and died in dreadful agony.
He climbed up in a loft at his place before dark Thursday evening and swallowed poison, and after waiting awhile he grew impatient because it did not take immediate effect, and climbing back into the loft swallowed some more.
By this time his wife and grown son realized what he was doing and took the poison away from him. As he did not get sick at once, a physician was not called for several hours and it was a little after 3 o'clock in the morning when Dr. Mitchel reached the place.
He found Kasparek in convulsions and beyond human aid. He died about 4 o'clock. He was given to fits of despondency and was probably mentally unbalanced when the deed was committed.
[Mention of L. Finkelstein's suicide in Flatonia followed.]
There is a marker for Frank Kasparek, 1839-Jan 1895 [sic.], born at Frenstat.
A Bohemian living on McMurray's land, about four miles south-east of here, took arsenic last Friday night and died in dreadful agony.
He climbed up in a loft at his place before dark Thursday evening and swallowed poison, and after waiting awhile he grew impatient because it did not take immediate effect, and climbing back into the loft swallowed some more.
By this time his wife and grown son realized what he was doing and took the poison away from him. As he did not get sick at once, a physician was not called for several hours and it was a little after 3 o'clock in the morning when Dr. Mitchel reached the place.
He found Kasparek in convulsions and beyond human aid. He died about 4 o'clock. He was given to fits of despondency and was probably mentally unbalanced when the deed was committed.
[Mention of L. Finkelstein's suicide in Flatonia followed.]
There is a marker for Frank Kasparek, 1839-Jan 1895 [sic.], born at Frenstat.
Frank Kasparek,
A Bohemian living on McMurray's land, about four miles south-east of here, took arsenic last Friday night and died in dreadful agony.
He climbed up in a loft at his place before dark Thursday evening and swallowed poison, and after waiting awhile he grew impatient because it did not take immediate effect, and climbing back into the loft swallowed some more.
By this time his wife and grown son realized what he was doing and took the poison away from him. As he did not get sick at once, a physician was not called for several hours and it was a little after 3 o'clock in the morning when Dr. Mitchel reached the place.
He found Kasparek in convulsions and beyond human aid. He died about 4 o'clock. He was given to fits of despondency and was probably mentally unbalanced when the deed was committed.
[Mention of L. Finkelstein's suicide in Flatonia followed.]
There is a marker for Frank Kasparek, 1839-Jan 1895 [sic.], born at Frenstat.
A Bohemian living on McMurray's land, about four miles south-east of here, took arsenic last Friday night and died in dreadful agony.
He climbed up in a loft at his place before dark Thursday evening and swallowed poison, and after waiting awhile he grew impatient because it did not take immediate effect, and climbing back into the loft swallowed some more.
By this time his wife and grown son realized what he was doing and took the poison away from him. As he did not get sick at once, a physician was not called for several hours and it was a little after 3 o'clock in the morning when Dr. Mitchel reached the place.
He found Kasparek in convulsions and beyond human aid. He died about 4 o'clock. He was given to fits of despondency and was probably mentally unbalanced when the deed was committed.
[Mention of L. Finkelstein's suicide in Flatonia followed.]
There is a marker for Frank Kasparek, 1839-Jan 1895 [sic.], born at Frenstat.
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