Suicide at Bridgeboro
New Jersey Mirror 14 Jul 1905
Charles Wischnewske, an aged Polish laborer on the farm of his stepdaughter, Mrs. Robert Hewitt, near Bridgeboro, committed suicide on Wednesday morning by shooting himself through the heart while in a bedroom of the house. Mrs. Hewitt was in the barn at the time she heard the fatal pistol shot. When she arrived upon the scene of the tragedy under the aged suicide was on the floor scene, and the revolver he had used, his arm. Help soon arrived on the but it was too late, as the old man had made death sure and almost instantaneous by piercing his heart with the well directed shot from a 32-calibre revolver. Coroner Grobler, of Moorestown, viewed the body and gave a death certificate. People of Bridgeboro and vicinity were greatly shocked upon hearing of the tragedy. The victim had lived there for several years and was highly respected. Despondency is the only cause known for Wischnewake's rash act.
Charles Wischnewske, an aged Polish laborer on the farm of his stepdaughter, Mrs. Robert Hewitt, near Bridgeboro, committed suicide on Wednesday morning by shooting himself through the heart while in a bedroom of the house. Mrs. Hewitt was in the barn at the time she heard the fatal pistol shot. When she arrived upon the scene of the tragedy under the aged suicide was on the floor scene, and the revolver he had used, his arm. Help soon arrived on the but it was too late, as the old man had made death sure and almost instantaneous by piercing his heart with the well directed shot from a 32-calibre revolver. Coroner Grobler, of Moorestown, viewed the body and gave a death certificate. People of Bridgeboro and vicinity were greatly shocked upon hearing of the tragedy. The victim had lived there for several years and was highly respected. Despondency is the only cause known for Wischnewake's rash act.
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