Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, Idaho)
Saturday, May 03, 1902
PAYETTE SUICIDE
Emil Marquardsen Kills Himself with a Pistol
DEED CAREFULLY PLANNED
He Leaves a Check to Be Sent to His Father in Germany - Note to His Uncle Giving Directions About the Forwarding of the Money
Payette, May 2 - Special - Emil Marquardsen committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver last night, sometime between midnight and morning in his room in the rear of his butcher shop. From the appearance of the remains he must have held the revolver with both hands above his head and pulled the trigger with his thumb. Death was instantaneous.
The coroner's inquest today resulted in a verdict finding as above stated.
Marquardsen left on his table a check for $475 payable to his father in Germany and around it a note to his uncle, N. A. Jacobsen of Payette directing him to find in a pocket of his clothing $30 to pay the exchange on the sum to be paid his father. He also left a note directed to Chris Heinrichson and wife who had been his friends asking them to forgive him and saying that he had been "for some time wanting to quit," and as he was a cripple he thought he would "quit for good."
Marquardson's act was due to despondency to which he has been subject since last summer, when he was convicted on a charge of cattle stealing. Although he was released by the supreme court because of inadequacy of the evidence, he had ever since seemed to feel a stigma, his sense of which resulted in his desperate act today.
Eight years ago Marquardsen came here direct from his native country, and had lived here ever since.
A brother who lives in Genessee, Ida., will reach Payette Sunday to take charge of the remains, which will be buried here.
