Obit for PETRY, Chas. E. (d.1878), Brown Co., MN
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Review - November 20, 1878
SAD SUICIDE
  Our people on arising yesterday morning were horrified to learn that 
Chas. E. Petry, a lad of about 17 years, had hung himself in the Herald 
office, the night previous.  He was first discovered by John Galles, 
another employee in the Herald office, and his father who was searching 
for him, as he had not been at home the previous eighteen hours.  
He had fastened a piece of cord, used by the St. Paul Newspaper Union 
for doing up packages, to the know of the inner door and then passed 
it over the door.  After having made these preparations it appears that 
he placed a chair against the door, and after having tied a towel around 
his kneck he got onto the chair and placed the cord over the towel and 
kicked the chair out from under him.  The fall must have broken his kneck, 
as when found his legs were nearly doubled up under him on the floor.  
The body was quite cold when found and must have hung several hours.  
In the early morn, before coroner Christensen arrived, many people visited 
the scene of the youthful suicide, and all expressed themselves horrified 
at the sight.  The boy had been employed on the Review ever since last 
December, and only last Thursday reluctantly left us to assume a more 
lucrative position on the Herald.