Marion-Multnomah County OR Archives News.....Strange Suicide April 23, 1893
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The Oregonian April 23, 1893
Particulars Of The Remarkable Death of W.W.Trexler-
 The Stayton Times furnishes this account of the Trexler suicide;
Last Saturday morning, as William Manus and Joe Carey, in company with 
W.W.Trexler, were coming into town, the latter surpised his companions by 
committing suicide, br drowning before their eyes as they crossed the bridge.
They were all neighbors, living about two miles south of town, and were coming 
afoot. As they walked on the bridge Trexler asked how long it had been built, 
an dlooked over into the swiftly flowing  water below, and Mr. Carey warned 
him to exercise some care or he might fall over. At this warning Trexler 
leaped over the railing, and stood on the iron cords that are a little lowr 
than the floor.Carey crossed toward him, when he stepped off the cords, 
catching them with his hands. Here he hung pending in the air for a moment, 
then released his grasp and fell a distance of about 22 feet into the river, 
some 10 feet deep.
After being immersed, he rose to the surface and swam pretty lively for a 
while, but made no attempt to reach the shore.
Mr.Carey ran off the bridge and reached the river bank below, opposite the 
still live body, and the drowning victim continued downward with the current 
until, with both hands upward, he sank to rise no more.

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