A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > New York > Ontario http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=711 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=44685 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Daily Inter Ocean Article Date: November 19 1887 Article Description: The Sequel of an Elopement. Article Text: Geneva, N.Y., Nov. 18.--August RANCKERT, a well-known and prominent German farmer living ten miles from Himrods, committed suicide yesterday morning after long and careful preparations. About Oct 15 his only daughter, Louise, eloped and married an ignorant railroad track man much beneath her social station. Her father was terribly shocked and grieved when he heard of her marriage. He cleared up all his season's crop of grain and sold them; then, placing all the proceeds in the bank for his wife, he spent whole nights in going over his account books, and made his accounts easy of settlement by his wife. We wrote a long and detailed explanation of the condition of his estate and plans for improvement of his farm. Several people about RANCKERT's farm heard a gunshot in his barn yesterday morning, and ran there at once. RANCKERT was found dangling at the end of a halter-strap, with a gunshot wound in his left breast. He was dead. He had by an ingenious arrangement so fix! ed a double-barreled shotgun upon two upright boards that when he was hanging by his neck the muzzle of the gun would be close to his left breast. A long string was attached to the trigger of the gun and run over a small pully over the back of the gun-stock. RANCKERT leaped off a chair, and while hanging by his neck, pulled the string attached to the gun. Both barrels were discharged, and his heart was almost entirely blown away. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com