The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21 00:00:00

DR. NOBILING'S DEATH.

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Th Berlin Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes:—

"Dr. Nobiling's death is fraught with serious dis-
appointment to the superior police authorities of
Prussia, who had been led to hope that he might be
sufficiently restored to health by the care of the emi-
nent physicians entrusted with his case to become an
agent in the hands of justice for averting crimes of a
character similar to that which he himself had com-
mitted. The already astonishing result of his excep-
tionally vigorous constitution, and of the skilful treat-
ment accorded to him—namely, that a man with a
perforEtted skull, and a brain one half of which had
been pierced through and through by a large conical
bullet, should live for three months after the infliction
of those injuries, and even gain strength and appetite
to such an extent that he was able to walk about in a
garden and eat three meals daily—had almost justified
the official expectation that, one of these days, Carl
Nobiling, his wounds healed and his intellect delivered
from the cloud in which it was for some weeks ensuing
his attempt to commit suicide, would be induced to repent
the dark deed which all but plunged the German nation
into mourning, and to make what amends he could for
his grievous sin by demouncing his accomplices and
throwing some light upon the secrets of the formidable
organization to which he belonged, and of which he is
believed to have been an exceptionally trusted,
intelligent and influential member. To this expectation.
in which the general public shared with the utmost
intensity of interest, Dr. Nobiling's sudden and un-
expr cted relapse on the 9th inst., and decease on the
following afternoon, has put an end for ever. At the
instance of his medical attendants, the police officials
had entirely ab:tained, even during the Period of his
apparent convalescence, from subjecting- him to any
interrcget ry u ith respect to the circumstances lead.
jug up to nis attempt on the Emperor's life, as it Wast 3
feared that the least mental irritation, or even excite-
mot, might defeat all the elate made by outgun to

achieve his cure; and ea he has careied his terrible
secret with him to the grave, and the veil of mystery
hanging over his surpassing crime has not yet been
lifted for a single moment. On the 6th inst. Dr.
I* win, the prison dootor, who had had charge of
Nobiling's case from the day of his arrest, con-
versed freely with him upon topics of the
day, and was surprised at the relevancy of
his ohs, rvations, which pointed to a marked improve-
ment in the functioning of his brain; but he com-
plained of intermittent headache and pressure at the
back of his eyes, and these symptcms cot tinued to
present themselves until the morning of the 9th, when
he was seized with a violent fit of vomiting, and
shortly afterwards became unconscious. He never
spoke again. On the lOth—it being obvious that his
end was drawing nieh—his mother was admitted to
his bedside, but her presence failed to rouse him
from the state of coma in which he lay : and
she had baldly quitted him when he breathed
his last. A post-mortem was held upon his
bady next day by Drs. Wolff, Lesser, and
Lewin, in the presence of - several eminent surgeons
and legal officials of the Crown. The surgical report
upon his injuries states that a projectile had pene-
tratel the right side of his forehead, had been split in
two by the violence of its contact with the us frontis,
and the larger moiety thereof, piercing both the front
divisions of the brain, had lodged in the left division,
lacking force to perforate a second time the skull. A
cavity was found in the brain, from which discharge
had been taking place for a long time past. Death
was immediately caused by a newly set-up inflamma-
tion in the skin of the brain (Flirnhaut)." . . . .