Transcribed from the scrapbook of Emma Rey’s newspaper articles by Wayne Rey.

Jacob Riebling, grieving Over Relatives’ Deaths, Ends His Life.


Grieved by the loss within twenty-four hours of his mother, his great-grandmother 
and a cousin, Jacob Riebling, No. 210A Bowen Street, car conductor, yesterday morning 
shot himself as he knelt at the bedside of his wife of two months.
His wife had gone out of the room to bring him some water, because he said he felt 
faint. When she hear the shot she rushed in and was terrified to see her husband lying 
on the floor, fully dressed with blood trickling from a bullet wound in his left temple.
The couple was married November 2 in the house in which the bridegroom committed 
suicide. They both came from Columbia, Ill. where the funerals that drove Riebling to 
suicide took place. Mrs. Riebling was formerly Miss Lulu Mosbacher, and is 20 years 
old. Riebling was 24.