Newspapers, Adair County KY: The Adair County News  22-Dec-1897

Submitted By: Laura Frost Wright <lsllwright@fuse.net>
Submission Date: 10-June-2000 

Took His Life. Albert SCHILLING, a Well Known Richmond Grocer Commits Suicide
Brooding Over an Imaginary Misfortune, The Only Known Cause.
Albert SCHILLING, one of the best known business men in Richmond, took his
life last Tuesday morning. The news of the man's rash act startled the people,
as it was not known that there could be any reason for SCHILLING ending his
life. He had always seemed healthy, properous and happy. SCHILLING went home
on the morning of the suicide, after midnight, laid his money and keys on the
table in the family room, disrobed, and without revealing his intention to
his wife, took from the mantle a two-ounce bottle of carbolic acid. Going to
the kitchen, he poured an ounce and a half of the poisen into a tin cup and
swallowed the deadly draught. Without saying a word to Mrs. SCHILLING, he
returned to his room and lay down for the night. A few minutes later his wife
heard SCHLLING groaning in agony and, becoming frightened over his terrible
sufferings and her inability to get an answer to her questions, she summoned
the family physician. But before the doctor arrived, SCHILLING died in the
most horrible manner, the paroxysms racking his body and his face being
contorted in a dreadful way in death. His friends have been unable to
conjecture why the properous confectioner should have committed suicide, but
it is advanced by some that he had become worked over the loss of the
Frank FEHR beer agency which he had for some months held but recently lost,
and had brooded over the magnified misfortune till he was driven to the
desparate deed he committed. The dead man had been conducting a grocery and
confectionary and had a satisfactory business. He came here from Cincinnati
about ten years ago and was generally respected by all who knew him. He was
a brother-in-law of Policeman Everette BERRY of this place, and was a member
of one of the County's wealthiest and most esteemed families. He held a
$2,000 life insurance policy in the A.O.U.W., was twenty-eight years of age,
and leaves a wife and two children. The funeral occurred from the residence
last Wednesday. Mr. SCHILLING was well known by a number of Adair County
people.

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