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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 5/12/1924
Fred W. Borofske, 27 years old. who
lived with his sister, Mrs. Carl Leon
ard, 16 State street, committed
suicide Saturday night by hanging him
self with a clothes ltne in one of the
clothes closets of the Leonard home
Despondency over his failure to get
back a job which he recently quit in
Tonawanda is believed to have been
the cause of the young man ending his
life.
Two weeks ago Borofske began to
act strangely. He went to New York
and returned on the next train, having
left a note saying that he had goniout
of town. Saturday he told his
sister to take her eight-year-old daugh-
ter and go to the moving picture, prom-
iing to wash the supper dishes dur-
ing their absence.
"Forgive Me," Note Says
When Mrs. Leonard and her daughter
returned home several hours later
they found a note on the dining room
table , reading: "Forgive me, Mary
T h e n o t e w a s to Mrs Leonard, and
was signed, "Fred." Mrs. Leonard
was at a loss at first to understand
the importance of the note. She
thought that he might have gone
away. Going to the clothes closet
to see if he had taken his suit case,
she found the dead body of her
brother dangling from a rope that had
b e e n attached to a joist in the top of.
the room.
Medical Exainr Charles Long
took charge and stated that Borofake
had been dead several hours when
the body was found.
Borofske was single. He had lived
in Tonawanda all his life. Besides
Mrs. Leonard he is survived by another
sister, Mrs. Joseph Green, and four
brothers, Charles, Max, Julius and
Albert Borofske all of Tonawanda The
funeral will be held tomorrow after-
noon at 2:30 o'clock from the late resi-
dence.
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