Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Marquardsen, Emil 1902
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Idaho Daily Statesman 5-3-1902
Idaho Daily Statesman
Boise, Idaho
Saturday, May 3, 1902
 
PAYETTE SUICIDE
 
Emil Marquardsen Kills Himself with a Pistol
 
DEED CAREFULLY PLANNED
 
He Leaves a Check to Be Sent to His Father in Germany - Note to His Uncle 
Giving Directions About the Forwarding of the Money
 
Payette, May 2 - Special - Emil Marquardsen committed suicide by shooting 
himself in the head with a revolver last night, sometime between midnight and 
morning in his room in the rear of his butcher shop.  From the appearance of 
the remains he must have held the revolver with both hands above his head and 
pulled the trigger with his thumb.  Death was instantaneous.
 
The coroner's inquest today resulted in a verdict finding as above stated.
 
Marquardsen left on his table a check for $475 payable to his father in 
Germany and around it a note to his uncle, N. A. Jacobsen of Payette directing 
him to find in a pocket of his clothing $30 to pay the exchange on the sum to 
be paid his father.  He also left a note directed to Chris Heinrichson and 
wife who had been his friends asking them to forgive him and saying that he 
had been "for some time wanting to quit," and as he was a cripple he thought 
he would "quit for good."
 
Marquardson's act was due to despondency to which he has been subject since 
last summer, when he was convicted on a charge of cattle stealing.  Although 
he was released by the supreme court because of inadequacy of the evidence, he 
had ever since seemed to feel a stigma, his sense of which resulted in his 
desperate act today.
 
Eight years ago Marquardsen came here direct from his native country, and had 
lived here ever since.
 
A brother who lives in Genessee, Ida., will reach Payette Sunday to take 
charge of the remains, which will be buried here.

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