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- Springfield Republican, December 22, 1938
Ernest Bessette Found Dead In Car Here By His Wife
Had Been Treasurer and Chemist at Closed Haynes Laboratories
Wife Knows of No Suicide Motive
Ernest F. Bessette, 41, of 65 Caseland street, treasurer of and chemist for the C.W. Haynes Laboratories Inc., of this city, which was dissolved two months ago, was found dead in his automobile yesterday morning. The body was discovered by his wife, and Dr. Charles J. Downey, medical examiner, pronounced death as due to suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide gas. Mrs. Bessette discovered her husband’s body when she went to the garage shortly before in yesterday morning to see if her husband had taken the car when she could not find him in the house.
Police were called and responded with the ambulance and inhalator, but Dr. James Seala, who had been called from Springfield hospital, pronounced the man dead. Dr. Downey arrived soon afterward and said Mr. Bessette then had been dead for five or six hours. Detective James J. Collins, Jr., who investigated, reported the engine of the automobile had stopped but that the ignition key was turned on when the body was discovered by Mrs. Bessette.
Mrs. Bessette could give no motive for the suicide. Her husband had been unemployed since the C.W. Haynes Laboratories, Inc., went out of business about two months ago, but he was planning to start up in business again with a relative.
Mr. Bessette was born at Holyoke, October 22, 1884, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bessette. He had lived in this city for the past 11 years. He was a member of the United Commercial Travelers and of the Rotary club. Besides his widow, Mrs. Alice (Messier) Bessette, he leaves two daughters, Frances Alice and Therese Agnes Bessette, at home; his parents, who live at Hartford, Ct.; and one brother, Homer Bessette of this city. The funeral will be held at the Grise funeral home at Chicopee Saturday morning at a time to be announced.
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