Tragic Death of Young Farmer Casts Gloom Over A Wide Circle of Friends
Nervous Breakdown Prompts His Rash Act
Family is Prostrated
Harry Earl Braatz, age 28 years, one at the most promising of Fond du Lac county's young farmers, took his life by hanging in a barn on his farm a mile east of the city on the Fourth Street Road between 5:30 and 6 o'clock this morning.
Despondency due to ill health from which Mr. Braatz has been a sufferer for over a year, is ascribed as a reason for his rash act. He suffered a severe nervous breakdown about two weeks ago.
Mr. Braatz arose shortly after 5 o'clock this morning and with a nephew Glen Braatz went out to attend to the milking of the cows and other farm chores. He was with his nephew up to 5:30 o'clock when he left the cow barn carrying a small rope and the top of a milk can. The nephew supposed he had gone to the farmhouse. About a half an hour later Mrs. Braatz came to the barn and inquired where her husband was.
Find Body Hanging
They made a hasty search for him and the nephew discovered the body hanging from a rope which had tied over a rafter in an annex of the hay barn. The young man stood upon a three foot partition and after tying the rope to the rafter and then about his neck, stepped off. When found the body was within a few inches of the floor of the barn.
Mr. Braatz was the son of William Braatz, 289 Fourth Street, and one of the most prominent Holstein breeders of the state. William Braatz, his wife and two daughters Ruth and Charlotte and Mrs. William Kraelow, of Jenning, La. Were just about ready to start out in their car for a western trip into Minnesota and other states when they received the telephone call telling of the tragedy at their son's farm. Ten minutes before that Mr. Harry Braatz had been talking to her husband's father over the telephone and had told him that Harry had passed a good night and appeared to be feeling much better.
Leaves a Family
Harry Earl Braatz was born in the Town of Springvale and six years ago was married to Miss Marcia Pinkerton, of Ladoga. Shortly after the wedding the young couple moved to their present home which is known as the old Coulter farm. Their union was blessed with three children, Harold, age 4; Marjorie, age 3 and Grace, one and a half years old. A pitiful feature of the tragic death is the fact that Mrs. Braatz leaves his father and mother, four brothers, William of Eldorado; Edward of Springvale; Charles of Park Falls, Minn.; and Albert of Waupaca, also two sisters, Ruth and Charlotte of this city.
The death of Mr. Braatz has cast a pall of gloom over a wide community where he was well and favorably known. He made a valiant effort to combat his nervous affliction and his family had given him every ail and encouragement.
Nervous Breakdown Prompts His Rash Act
Family is Prostrated
Harry Earl Braatz, age 28 years, one at the most promising of Fond du Lac county's young farmers, took his life by hanging in a barn on his farm a mile east of the city on the Fourth Street Road between 5:30 and 6 o'clock this morning.
Despondency due to ill health from which Mr. Braatz has been a sufferer for over a year, is ascribed as a reason for his rash act. He suffered a severe nervous breakdown about two weeks ago.
Mr. Braatz arose shortly after 5 o'clock this morning and with a nephew Glen Braatz went out to attend to the milking of the cows and other farm chores. He was with his nephew up to 5:30 o'clock when he left the cow barn carrying a small rope and the top of a milk can. The nephew supposed he had gone to the farmhouse. About a half an hour later Mrs. Braatz came to the barn and inquired where her husband was.
Find Body Hanging
They made a hasty search for him and the nephew discovered the body hanging from a rope which had tied over a rafter in an annex of the hay barn. The young man stood upon a three foot partition and after tying the rope to the rafter and then about his neck, stepped off. When found the body was within a few inches of the floor of the barn.
Mr. Braatz was the son of William Braatz, 289 Fourth Street, and one of the most prominent Holstein breeders of the state. William Braatz, his wife and two daughters Ruth and Charlotte and Mrs. William Kraelow, of Jenning, La. Were just about ready to start out in their car for a western trip into Minnesota and other states when they received the telephone call telling of the tragedy at their son's farm. Ten minutes before that Mr. Harry Braatz had been talking to her husband's father over the telephone and had told him that Harry had passed a good night and appeared to be feeling much better.
Leaves a Family
Harry Earl Braatz was born in the Town of Springvale and six years ago was married to Miss Marcia Pinkerton, of Ladoga. Shortly after the wedding the young couple moved to their present home which is known as the old Coulter farm. Their union was blessed with three children, Harold, age 4; Marjorie, age 3 and Grace, one and a half years old. A pitiful feature of the tragic death is the fact that Mrs. Braatz leaves his father and mother, four brothers, William of Eldorado; Edward of Springvale; Charles of Park Falls, Minn.; and Albert of Waupaca, also two sisters, Ruth and Charlotte of this city.
The death of Mr. Braatz has cast a pall of gloom over a wide community where he was well and favorably known. He made a valiant effort to combat his nervous affliction and his family had given him every ail and encouragement.
Tragic Death of Young Farmer Casts Gloom Over A Wide Circle of Friends
Nervous Breakdown Prompts His Rash Act
Family is Prostrated
Harry Earl Braatz, age 28 years, one at the most promising of Fond du Lac county's young farmers, took his life by hanging in a barn on his farm a mile east of the city on the Fourth Street Road between 5:30 and 6 o'clock this morning.
Despondency due to ill health from which Mr. Braatz has been a sufferer for over a year, is ascribed as a reason for his rash act. He suffered a severe nervous breakdown about two weeks ago.
Mr. Braatz arose shortly after 5 o'clock this morning and with a nephew Glen Braatz went out to attend to the milking of the cows and other farm chores. He was with his nephew up to 5:30 o'clock when he left the cow barn carrying a small rope and the top of a milk can. The nephew supposed he had gone to the farmhouse. About a half an hour later Mrs. Braatz came to the barn and inquired where her husband was.
Find Body Hanging
They made a hasty search for him and the nephew discovered the body hanging from a rope which had tied over a rafter in an annex of the hay barn. The young man stood upon a three foot partition and after tying the rope to the rafter and then about his neck, stepped off. When found the body was within a few inches of the floor of the barn.
Mr. Braatz was the son of William Braatz, 289 Fourth Street, and one of the most prominent Holstein breeders of the state. William Braatz, his wife and two daughters Ruth and Charlotte and Mrs. William Kraelow, of Jenning, La. Were just about ready to start out in their car for a western trip into Minnesota and other states when they received the telephone call telling of the tragedy at their son's farm. Ten minutes before that Mr. Harry Braatz had been talking to her husband's father over the telephone and had told him that Harry had passed a good night and appeared to be feeling much better.
Leaves a Family
Harry Earl Braatz was born in the Town of Springvale and six years ago was married to Miss Marcia Pinkerton, of Ladoga. Shortly after the wedding the young couple moved to their present home which is known as the old Coulter farm. Their union was blessed with three children, Harold, age 4; Marjorie, age 3 and Grace, one and a half years old. A pitiful feature of the tragic death is the fact that Mrs. Braatz leaves his father and mother, four brothers, William of Eldorado; Edward of Springvale; Charles of Park Falls, Minn.; and Albert of Waupaca, also two sisters, Ruth and Charlotte of this city.
The death of Mr. Braatz has cast a pall of gloom over a wide community where he was well and favorably known. He made a valiant effort to combat his nervous affliction and his family had given him every ail and encouragement.
Nervous Breakdown Prompts His Rash Act
Family is Prostrated
Harry Earl Braatz, age 28 years, one at the most promising of Fond du Lac county's young farmers, took his life by hanging in a barn on his farm a mile east of the city on the Fourth Street Road between 5:30 and 6 o'clock this morning.
Despondency due to ill health from which Mr. Braatz has been a sufferer for over a year, is ascribed as a reason for his rash act. He suffered a severe nervous breakdown about two weeks ago.
Mr. Braatz arose shortly after 5 o'clock this morning and with a nephew Glen Braatz went out to attend to the milking of the cows and other farm chores. He was with his nephew up to 5:30 o'clock when he left the cow barn carrying a small rope and the top of a milk can. The nephew supposed he had gone to the farmhouse. About a half an hour later Mrs. Braatz came to the barn and inquired where her husband was.
Find Body Hanging
They made a hasty search for him and the nephew discovered the body hanging from a rope which had tied over a rafter in an annex of the hay barn. The young man stood upon a three foot partition and after tying the rope to the rafter and then about his neck, stepped off. When found the body was within a few inches of the floor of the barn.
Mr. Braatz was the son of William Braatz, 289 Fourth Street, and one of the most prominent Holstein breeders of the state. William Braatz, his wife and two daughters Ruth and Charlotte and Mrs. William Kraelow, of Jenning, La. Were just about ready to start out in their car for a western trip into Minnesota and other states when they received the telephone call telling of the tragedy at their son's farm. Ten minutes before that Mr. Harry Braatz had been talking to her husband's father over the telephone and had told him that Harry had passed a good night and appeared to be feeling much better.
Leaves a Family
Harry Earl Braatz was born in the Town of Springvale and six years ago was married to Miss Marcia Pinkerton, of Ladoga. Shortly after the wedding the young couple moved to their present home which is known as the old Coulter farm. Their union was blessed with three children, Harold, age 4; Marjorie, age 3 and Grace, one and a half years old. A pitiful feature of the tragic death is the fact that Mrs. Braatz leaves his father and mother, four brothers, William of Eldorado; Edward of Springvale; Charles of Park Falls, Minn.; and Albert of Waupaca, also two sisters, Ruth and Charlotte of this city.
The death of Mr. Braatz has cast a pall of gloom over a wide community where he was well and favorably known. He made a valiant effort to combat his nervous affliction and his family had given him every ail and encouragement.
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