MADISON – Despondent over business conditions and unlikely to collect bills owed his store, Alden Ahrensmeyer, 29, of 2158 Buena Vista Street, ended his life by filling his home with gas Friday afternoon.
He was dead when discovered by his father, Carl, with whom he was associated in the operation of a general store on Monona Drive, town of Blooming Grove. His wife, two-year-old daughter, and sister had gone to the offices of Dr. M.C. Canan, 2003 Winnebago Street, to ask him to go to the Ahrensmeyer home to treat the man who was ill according to police. Shortly before they returned, the father had gone to the son's home, and had found all doors locked. Looking through a kitchen window, he saw his son lying on the floor. Lyall T. Beggs, deputy coroner, was called. The father, according to Beggs, broke a cellar window to gain access to the house, shut off the gas stove, and called police. Sergt. Everett Mellox and Chauffeur Charles O. Burmeister went to the Ahrensmeyer home with artificial respiratory equipment but their efforts to revive the man were without success and Dr. Canan pronounced the man to be dead. The young man's father told him, Mr. Beggs said, that the son had been despondent for the past few months because business was poor and because he had little success in attempts to collect money owed to the store.
Funeral services will be held at 1 Sunday afternoon at the home, the Reverend Otto J. Wilke officiating. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Published in The Capital Times, November 19, 1932
He was dead when discovered by his father, Carl, with whom he was associated in the operation of a general store on Monona Drive, town of Blooming Grove. His wife, two-year-old daughter, and sister had gone to the offices of Dr. M.C. Canan, 2003 Winnebago Street, to ask him to go to the Ahrensmeyer home to treat the man who was ill according to police. Shortly before they returned, the father had gone to the son's home, and had found all doors locked. Looking through a kitchen window, he saw his son lying on the floor. Lyall T. Beggs, deputy coroner, was called. The father, according to Beggs, broke a cellar window to gain access to the house, shut off the gas stove, and called police. Sergt. Everett Mellox and Chauffeur Charles O. Burmeister went to the Ahrensmeyer home with artificial respiratory equipment but their efforts to revive the man were without success and Dr. Canan pronounced the man to be dead. The young man's father told him, Mr. Beggs said, that the son had been despondent for the past few months because business was poor and because he had little success in attempts to collect money owed to the store.
Funeral services will be held at 1 Sunday afternoon at the home, the Reverend Otto J. Wilke officiating. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Published in The Capital Times, November 19, 1932
MADISON – Despondent over business conditions and unlikely to collect bills owed his store, Alden Ahrensmeyer, 29, of 2158 Buena Vista Street, ended his life by filling his home with gas Friday afternoon.
He was dead when discovered by his father, Carl, with whom he was associated in the operation of a general store on Monona Drive, town of Blooming Grove. His wife, two-year-old daughter, and sister had gone to the offices of Dr. M.C. Canan, 2003 Winnebago Street, to ask him to go to the Ahrensmeyer home to treat the man who was ill according to police. Shortly before they returned, the father had gone to the son's home, and had found all doors locked. Looking through a kitchen window, he saw his son lying on the floor. Lyall T. Beggs, deputy coroner, was called. The father, according to Beggs, broke a cellar window to gain access to the house, shut off the gas stove, and called police. Sergt. Everett Mellox and Chauffeur Charles O. Burmeister went to the Ahrensmeyer home with artificial respiratory equipment but their efforts to revive the man were without success and Dr. Canan pronounced the man to be dead. The young man's father told him, Mr. Beggs said, that the son had been despondent for the past few months because business was poor and because he had little success in attempts to collect money owed to the store.
Funeral services will be held at 1 Sunday afternoon at the home, the Reverend Otto J. Wilke officiating. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Published in The Capital Times, November 19, 1932
He was dead when discovered by his father, Carl, with whom he was associated in the operation of a general store on Monona Drive, town of Blooming Grove. His wife, two-year-old daughter, and sister had gone to the offices of Dr. M.C. Canan, 2003 Winnebago Street, to ask him to go to the Ahrensmeyer home to treat the man who was ill according to police. Shortly before they returned, the father had gone to the son's home, and had found all doors locked. Looking through a kitchen window, he saw his son lying on the floor. Lyall T. Beggs, deputy coroner, was called. The father, according to Beggs, broke a cellar window to gain access to the house, shut off the gas stove, and called police. Sergt. Everett Mellox and Chauffeur Charles O. Burmeister went to the Ahrensmeyer home with artificial respiratory equipment but their efforts to revive the man were without success and Dr. Canan pronounced the man to be dead. The young man's father told him, Mr. Beggs said, that the son had been despondent for the past few months because business was poor and because he had little success in attempts to collect money owed to the store.
Funeral services will be held at 1 Sunday afternoon at the home, the Reverend Otto J. Wilke officiating. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Published in The Capital Times, November 19, 1932
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