A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > New York > Genesee http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=637 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=43312 Submitted by: New York Contributors Article Title: The Daily News Article Date: September 11 1883 Article Description: Suicide of a Former Batavian. Article Text: Originally submitted by: L. Schmidt Suicide of a Former Batavian. An associated press dispatch from Detroit printed in this morning's papers states that Ex-State Senator Heman Redfield of Monroe, Michigan shot and killed himself in his lot at the cemetery Sunday. He left a note saying he was going to die on the only piece of property he owned in the world, and enclosed thirty-eight dollars for funeral expenses. The cause of his suicide is unknown. He was supposed to be comfortably off. He leaves a wife and daughter. The intelligence contained in the above dispatch was read with painful surprise by many people in Batavia where Mr Redfield was well known, and was the first intimation of his death that has been received here. The deceased was a son of the late Hon. Heman J Redfield of Batavia. He went west many years ago, and had been a prominent citizen of Monroe, having served as mayor, and, as the dispatch states, state senator. About two years ago, Mr Redfield became the victim of a mental disorder and was placed in the insane asylum at Kalamazoo, while his property was put in charge of his trustees. This accounts for his hallucination that he had no property. He was about sixty years of age. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com