Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Duffel, Victor E. - February 17, 1898
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source: Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA) Friday, Feb 18, 1898, page 2


A FATAL SPREE - Victor Duffel Dies in a Third Precinct Cell. - Last night at 
about 8 o'clock a white man named Victor Duffel, aged 37 years, was arrested at 
the corner of Esplanade and Dauphine street by Patrolman Frietag and sent to 
jail in the patrol wagon for being drunk.

The man's condition was such that he was unable to give his name or residence, 
but shortly after 11 o'clock a message was sent from the fourth precinct 
station, making inquiries about Victor Duffel, who was missing from his home, 
No. 1325 North Prieur street. As the prisoner's description tallied with that of 
the missing man, Sargent Seelhorst  and Corporal Magnon at once went to his cell 
to awaken him, and in their surprise found the unfortunate man cold in death.

The man's relatives were thereupon notified and shortly after his nephew called 
at the station and fully identified the body. The deceased, he said, had been 
suffering for some time with heart trouble, and this probably was the cause of 
his death. The deceased was a native of Ascension parish, and was employed as a 
clerk at the grocery store of Nicholas Frey. No. 1031 Decatur street.


source: Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA) Sat., Feb. 19, 1898, page 13

NOT DRUNK - Mr. Duffel Was a Sober and Respected Citizen. - The family of Victor 
E. Duffel, the unfortunate man who was found dead in a cell in the Elysian 
Fields street police station a day or so ago, deny that Mr. Duffel was 
intoxicated when arrested by the officer who incarcerated him upon a charge of 
being drunk. Mr. L.F.H. Duffel, a nephew of the deceased, states that for a 
number of years his uncle has been a sufferer from Bright's disease, and that 
the family physician, Dr. Charbonnet, had expressed the opinion that when the 
disease reached a stage sufficiently severe to cause convulsions, the sufferer 
would be likely to expire from the collapse. Mr. Duffel is of the opinion that 
his uncle was stricken with a convulsion, from the effects of which he became 
unconscious, and, being in this state, was unable to explain his real condition 
to the officer who made the arrest.


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