Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-26
A MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
MURDER OIL. SUICIDE.
Body of Charles Urbach Found on
Fourth Lake, lying in q
Pool of Blood.

from the State Journal March 10TH
Our quiet lakes have been the scene of
another tragedy. Last summer one poor
unfortunate sought oblivion under the
placid waters of Lake Mendoza, and last
night the life of another was spilled with
his hearts blood, in solitude, far from
waters, and made the falling snow his
winding sheet.
This forenoon a boy named Samuel
Mills, while crossing from the city to
Westport, found coat near pool of
blood, about two miles from the shore, on
the ice of Lake Mendoza. Suspecting
something wrong had happened, he re-
traced his steps, and brought the clothing
to Smiths saloon in the First ward.
A man named James bowels then went
out and found the body about two miles
from shore in direct line between the
University and the Hospital for the Insane.
The deceased was lying on his face, in
| a pool of blood, on the ice, while little
distance off was another pool of blood,
and some 150 yards away was another
large pool of blood. Returning to the
city and reporting what he had found,
| Captain j. w. Tolford with a party OF
| men and team went out and brought the
body to the city, and deposited it in the
old Police Court room, on the first floor
of the City Hall, where a coroner's jury
| was impannelled this afternoon by Justice
Woodward, for the purpose of holding an
inquest. After organizing the jury, how
ever, the inquest was adjourned till II o.
clock this evening, and search was d.
rected to be made about the place where
the body was found, for the weapon by
which death was caused.
On examination of the body cut was
found about an inch long, not quite straight
across in the center Of the throat, but it
was not deep. The left wrist, however,
was badly gashed up, and it was evidently
through the severing of the veins there
that the man bled to death. Appearances
all indicated suicide, except some slight
cuts on the chest, forming the word
"Vily" or Willy" which tend to throw
a mystery about the affair, in connection
with the fact that no instrument of death
was found, though the fact that the de-
ceased was not known to have any money,
and that his watch and other valuables
were on his person, initiate against a sus-
picion Of murder.
We learn that the young man who has
thus come to an untitnely end was named
Charles Urbach. He was formerly in the
employ of Mr.. Waltzinger, but since the
middle of October has been clerking in
Dudley & Bakers dry goods store. He
has lately been sick at his boarding house,
Fred. Schielbcrs, of fever, and been Wis
tied there by his employers. He was re-
covering, however, and sent word yester-
day that he would be at the store at 4
o'clock, but he never came, and had not
been paid up, as rumored.
No motive for either murder or suicide
is yet known. We understand that the
relatives of the deceased reside in Jeffer-
son county.
by q later paper VIC learn that the SUBJ
ject of the above notice evidently COM
mitted suicide. A pair of clerks scissors
found near BY, with pieces of flesh still
on them, showed the means used Pow
erty was the supposed cause. The mys-
terry of the marks on the breast is still
unexplained.