Submitted by: Todd Nowicki

ALBERT FISCHER SHOOTS SELF IN HEAD
Asks Police To Lock Him Up Which They Refuse, Then He Takes Life
Albert P. Fischer, 36 years old, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a shotgun this morning at 5 o’clock in the yard of his home 11 miles northwest of this city. The man is said to have been mentally unbalanced and realizing his condition applied for admittance to the police station in this city last night. Lack of any charge upon which to base an arrest the police refused the request and the man left for his home.   He was born in Clay township, March 9, 1887, and had lived in this vicinity nearly all his life. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Josephine Smoroske Fischer, whom he married in Chicago Sept. 30, 1912; one daughter, Clara; his mother, Mrs. Magdelena Fischer, and seven brothers and sisters, Mrs. Katherine Bamer, Mrs. Margaret Williams, Frank and Jacob, all of this city, Mrs. Anna Harlow, of Washington, Mrs. Lillie Howard, of Baltimore, Md., and Magdelana, of Fort Wayne, Ind. The body may be viewed at the A.M. Russell chapel until Friday afternoon at 5 o’clock when it will be removed to the residence of Jacob Fischer, 841 Clinton street.