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MY WORK IS DONE. WHY WAIT?
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My Work Here Is Done. Why Wait? is the account of almost 200 years of suicides in Rochester New York. Paperback book 200 plus pages with numerous black and white and color pictures.
You have never read a book like My Work Here Is Done, Why Wait? Beginning in 1823, it is a compilation of news articles about successful and unsuccessful suicides in the Rochester area. Here you can read about the man who shot himself while hanging himself. Or about the woman who drown herself because of her hair style. You can even read about a dog that committed suicide. There are almost 200 stories in all. Don't delay order your copy today.
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A SUICIDE AND A DEATH
New York Times Jul 15, 1857
On Tuesday last a young man named Theodore Ganz, disappointed in love, wrote certain frantic letters to his friends, and then went out to the railroad, laid his head down on the track, as the express train approached, and was instantly crushed to a jelly. A day or two afterwards, Miss Maria Rohr, the young lady who jilted Ganz, fell ill of anguish on hearing of her lover’s dreadful death, and such was her mental suffering, that physicians were called to attend to her considered her case beyond their power, and she continued to approach the crisis of her disease very rapidly. Last night her grief was violent, and she continually accused herself of being the murderer of Ganz, or asked it was true that she had caused his death. Death released her from her sufferings, but we understood our informant to say that she was removed from here sister’s house before she died, on account of the disturbance her outcries caused in the family.
Maria was about 20 years of age, of cheerful and happy temperament, much intelligence, and good common education. Ganz was a native of Bavaria, about 25 years of age, and a very exemplary young man. He was expecting his mother, a widow, 65 years of age to arrive in this country this present summer. In one of the letters he left, occurs this passage: “I am insane now, I know, and I am not perfectly unable to think. My eye is neither blinded nor veiled; I can see my future life before me.”
“Hitherto it has been such a one as I once would readily lay open before my children if----; but now grief and pain are eating at my heart. I must have some diversion. There is the intoxicating cup; how long ere I shall be a slave to it? There is--I can not mention it!--ever shunned until now. Pure and fine Love has been my guardian angel. She has left me to myself! Well do I know I can live after that has happened--but how? Friendship--yes, pure friendship, such as you would bestow, could keep my heart until the world regained a shape I could live in; but I see it--I see it now; the green-eyed monster, Jealousy, standing in my way. I could not get happy, and you would become miserable. Dying eyes open themselves wide---May you never see the tears you caused? May you be happy--may she be happy, as much as she can?”
PENFIELD SUICIDE
Rochester Union, May 19. 1865
A man named Julius Thayer committed suicide in Penfield, on Tuesday. He was a son of Gideon Thayer and resided for some years in Michigan. He had shown symptoms of insanity and was encouraged to return to Penfield.
On Tuesday he was about to enter a warm bath prepared for him by order of a physician, when he was discovered by his wife with a razor in his hand.
His wife, fearing that he intended mischief, sought to obtain the razor. He pushed her violently away, seized his whiskers with his left hand, and, with his right, drew the razor across his throat, inflicting a horrid wound, causing death in a few moments.
At the inquest, the jury found that deceased committed suicide while laboring under insanity.
WOMAN HANGS FROM CHANDELIER
Union Advertiser May 21, 1884
Mina Imhof, and unmarried woman, deliberately committed suicide at the house of her brother Louis, at 200 North Clinton last night. The body of the woman was discovered hanging from a chandelier this morning about six o’clock by a man who occupies a room in the building. The deed was committed in a large hall over the restaurant, which occupies a large portion of the building. Mina suspended herself by the neck by means of a portion of a clothes line from the chandelier. Underneath was a table the woman had stood on while preparing for death, and having adjusted the rope, leaped off.
Clean female undergarments were found on the table, placed there before the suicide. When discovered, the body was cold and it was evident at all signs of life had departed. It was not cut down until the coroner arrived an hour later.
At the coroner’s inquest in was reported that Mina Imhof was 17 years of age and had lived with her brother for two years. About three years ago her mind became affected, and since then she had tried to take her own life three times.
BODY FOUND BY LIGHTHOUSE
Union Advertiser Aug 16, 1889
The body of Ernest Shapcott, was found near the Ontario Beach Lighthouse today. The coroner is ruling it a suicide. In his pocket was a note that said “Whiskey did it.”
SUICIDE TO PROVE BRAVERY
New York Times Mar 30, 1895
William Shelp, formerly of Rochester, committed suicide in Newark, New York by taking morphine. He returned to his home early today, and finding the milk pail on his side steps, took it into the house and poured into it a package of morphine.
“For heaven’s sake, what are you doing?” asked his wife.
“I’ll show you; I’ll be a dead man before noon. You said I was a coward,” he retorted. He lived but fifteen minutes.
KILLS SELF TO AVOID DRAFT
Times Union August 12 1917
Morris Silverman, 26, went to his room yesterday and turned on the gas. He was dead when discovered several hours later. The military draft is said to have had a depressing effect on Silverman.
He had little to say about it, but some of his friends pestered him with queries as to what he would do when the time came for him to report.
Yesterday morning he went to his room and made plans for ending his life. He did after he found nothing he could save him from being drafted for military service. After nailing the doors of his room shut he turned on five gas jets. He lay down on his bed and was soon asphyxiated.
Coroner Thomas A. Killip gave a certificate of suicide.
JELL-O HEIR JUMPS TO DEATH
Milwaukee Sentinel Jan. 22, 1952
Orator F. Woodward Jr., 66, heir to the Jell-O millions, leaped to his death from a window in his $1600 a month suite on the eighth floor of the Hotel Sheraton in Rochester. His nurse, Mrs. Jane Lyman, who said he had been suffering from asthma, reported that he went to the window after asking her to get him some lemon and soda.
When she saw he was about to jump, she grabbed his pajamas, but could not hold on. A verdict of suicide has been issued by the coroner.
An attorney for Woodward said he had been suffering from a “General rundown condition.” Woodward was the son of the late Orator F. Woodward of LeRoy who founded the Jell-o fortune and later sold his interests to General Foods.
Divorce ended both of Woodward’s marriages. His first wife was reported to have received a settlement of more than one million dollars in their Mexican divorce in 1929 after his “romantic interlude“ with a nurse. He and his second wife, a one time comedy star, were divorced in 1942 and she received $6,000 a month in alimony. Woodward is survived by a daughter and two sons.
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