Jacob Fisher's Suicide

New York, 1895

Shot Himself Before the Eyes of the Woman Who Jilted Him.

Jacob Fisher, aged 26, a brass moulder of Brooklyn, committed suicide Monday afternoon by shooting himself through the head at the residence of Mrs. Rother, a married sister of his, at Evergreen, Newtown. His father said that the only reason for his son's deed that he could imagine was that the young man had been jilted in love by a young woman. A week ago she married a man by the name of Keeler, and the couple went to live in Mrs. Rother's house.

Young Fisher left his father's house early Monday morning to visit his sister. Mrs. Rother noticed that he did not seem to be in good spirits. About 2 o'clock she went out in the yard on an errand. She had barely left the room when she heard the report of a pistol shot, and, running back, found her brother lying at the foot of the stairs leading to Mrs. Keeler's room. It is thought that he heard Mrs. Keeler coming down stairs, and that he hurried to the hallway and shot himself before the eyes of his former sweetheart.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 8, 1895, p. 12.

Woman Hater for 60 Years

1905

Now Daughter of Girl Who Jilted Him Gets His Fortune

Isaac Showers of Webster City, Iowa, religiously kept a vow for sixty years that no woman should cross his threshold or enjoy a cent of his wealth. Now that he is dead the carefully drawn will by which he hoped to perpetuate his vow has been broken, and the bulk of his estate goes to the daughter of the woman who jilted him and made him a hater of all womankind.

Showers came West years ago from New York to make his fortune, leaving behind him a girl who had promised to wait for him. When he became wealthy, as wealth was counted in those days, he journeyed back to claim his bride, only to find that she had married his brother. Without a word he returned to Iowa. When his father died, leaving a considerable estate, he refused to take any share of it because his brother was administrator.

In his own will he left his vast acreage of valuable lands to various schools, aid societies and churches. Mrs. Edward Price, daughter of the girl who jilted him, contested the will and has broken it, and will inherit something more than $250,000.

She's Worth $1,000 a Pound

1909

She's Worth $1,000 a Lb.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Because she was jilted and lost twenty-five pounds weight in consequence, Miss Luella Lowstetter wants $25,000 damages — $1,000 for each pound lost. She is a school teacher of the fashionable suburb of Sheraden. Her suit is against Prof. Earl W. Reed, principal of the school. Miss Lowstetter asserts that Professor Reed jilted her in a most humiliating fashion after she had agreed to marry him and had got her trousseau ready. She and her attorney said in court today that she lost at least twenty five pounds owing to worry over her jilting, and that the wedding clothes would not fit her now.


Eskimo Is a Cannibal

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland — Tragedy in the far North formed the burden of the news brought to port by the Hudson Bay Company's steamship Adventure, which arrived with the crew of the lost Dundee whaler Paradox. The crew told of an Eskimo, who driven to cannibalism by starvation, ate his child and after shooting several neighbors who attempted summary punishment, fled into the trackless wilderness of ice.


Tramp Heir to $25,000

William Close, who ran away from his Baltimore home when he was 16 years old, was found — a typical tramp — in a lodging house in Chicago Thursday night and informed that he had fallen heir to a fortune of $25,000 left him by his father. The next morning he started for Baltimore with Attorney J. D. Goldboro of that city, who has been searching for the prodigal for two years. Close, attired in a new suit of clothes, bathed and barbered, ascribed all his troubles to drink and declared he was determined to reform.