Carl Gottlob Jupe

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JUPE, CARL G.

By His Own Hand.

During the night Saturday night a messenger called at the residence of Coroner Nelson and informed him that one Carl G. Jupe had been found hanging from a tree near his home in Deer Creek, dead, with every indication of his having taken his own life.

Carl G. Jupe and wife have been making their home with their daughter, Mrs. M Hemrick in Deer Creek township for the past few years and up to the time when he disappeared Saturday evening.

Mr. Jupe was quite an elderly gentleman and has been in bad health for some little time, and it is supposed that his mind must have been affected as well as his body. He has on one or two former occasions threatened to destroy himself, but as no attempt was ever made before, he was not thought to be serious in his threats.

Saturday afternoon the old genteman [gentleman] announced that he was going out for a walk, and going over to where his wife was sitting, kissed her good bye. This was hardly the custom when going out for short walks and it was thought that he hardly acted right, but the circumstance did not arouse sufficient suspicion to cause the family to watch his further movements.

When he did not return at the usual time the family began to think perhaps that he had gone to the home of some of the relatives in the neighborhood, but when his faithful dog returned home about dark alone they began a search for him. He was found about 9 o’clock hanging from a tree which leaned over the bank of the creek, and was dead.

He had taken the scarf which he was in the habit of wearing about his neck and after fastening one end around his neck and the other to one of the large limbs of the tree, jumped off the bank and in that condition choked to death. When found the body was cold, showing that he had committed the deed soon after leaving the house.

He left no letter or other evidence showing the cause of his rash act. For twelve years Mr. Jupe has had sick spells at regular intervals, during which times he showed slight symptoms of insanity, but the family thought he had recovered from them.

Dr. Nelson, the coroner, investigated the case far enough to learn that there was no doubt but what Mr. Jupe took his own life and therefore decided an inquest was unnecessary, thus saving the county the expense of such inquiry.

The funeral was held from the Hemrick home Saturday afternoon and the remains of the unfortunated [unfortunate] man laid to rest.

The widow, who is seventy-six years of age, and the children, all of whom bear the most excellent reputations, feel the shock of his rash act and deplore the means employed by Mr. Jupe to end his life, yet as none of them contributed in the least to his act, they have the sincere sympathy of all in this time of their humiliation and grief. (December 6, 1900, submitted by Jon McKenzie)

Last Saturday Carl G. Jupe, a man past 76 years of age committed suicide by hanging himself on the farm of his son-in-law, Mike Hemrick, in Deer Creek township. Grampa Jupe as he was familiarly known, has been sick a good deal lately; and it was in one of his attacks that probably affected his mind that he committed the rash act. He left his aged wife sometime during the day Saturday, saying to her that he would go out for a walk in hope of feeling better soon. Late that night he was found hanging by his scarf to the limb of a tree on the creek bank. Coroner Nelson was notified and the proper inquest held. Mr. Jupe was a most estimable man and leaves seven children, Mrs Hemrick and Barney Jupe being the only ones residing here. They have the sympathy of a large number of friends in their sad bereavement. (Phillipsburg Herald, December 6, 1900, submitted by Jon McKenzie)