Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-17
SINGULAR SUICIDE.
Two Brothers Deliberately
Themselves Dead.

Two Brothers Deliberately shoot
Themselves Dead.
Baltimore tSept. l9) Correspondents of the New
York Herald
On Monday las two dead bodies were
found, about two miles from Baltimore,
under circumstances that gave rise to a
suspicion that they lad been murdered,
and the whole city became agitated over
the mystery that hung about their takin =
off. Both were found with pistols tv
their sides and bullet boles in their heads f;
but their bodies Were SO much decomposcd
that they could not be recognized, and the
cOnjectures as to the manner and cause of
their death were as various as the people
that talked of this strange affair.
The case was given to Detective Crane.
and this evening the following facts have
been unearthed III relation to one of the
stTangest suicides that have ever taken
place in this or any other country. Two
young men, Germans, and brothers, named
K. and q. Muller, tortoise shelmarkers,
came to Baltimore about the 18th of
August They were bountifully supplied
With money, aud they dispensed it freely
at drinking saloons and at some of the
fashionable bagnios of the city. From
their manners and appearances, the im-
preston was produced on the minds of the
of the detective force that it belonged to
the fancy, or, to use their own words,
"they were not all right" On the 10th
of August they purchased emigrant tickets
over the Northern Central Railroad tie
Steuhenville, Ohio.
E,r Gonna ia yo ,,ft YI until tho II h
OF the same month. they remainedin this
city, probably indulging freely in the dis
sipation v hich its saloons afforded As a
natural consequence their funds ran short
They made no secret Of their situation
Remarks were dropped from time to time,
in different saloons, which indicated that
they were brothers and family difficulties
oppressed them; also that they had spent
nearly all the money they had, and one of
them said to the other that they had
scarcely a dollar left, and proposed that
they should buy pistols and shoot them
selves. The railroad tickets which they
had purchased were frequently exhibited
in the restaurants Of the city, and it was
noticed that he elder brother ALWAYS had
charge of tn m.
On or about the Oath day of August
they disappeared, Prior to their depart
ure they visited small shop on West
Baltimore street, where firearms are sold,
and purchased two pistols, one small
single barrelled Allen pistol, and the other
apistol OF large bore, but of the same
pattern. They stated to several parties
IN Baitimre that they ere about going
up onthe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to a
certain point These parties upon an ex
animation Of their tickets told them they
could 90 all the way to Cincinnati with
the tickets, but intjmated that they did not
propose going further than the station they
bad mentioned. The rest is left to CON
lecture. From what is already known
these two men must have strolled out on
the Washington road, on the evining OF
the 24th of August, with the deliberate in
tentlon Of putting an end to their lives.
They walked on until they reached a
small spot Of underbrush, about two miles
from the city, secluded spot. 1t was
grown over by the heavier shrubbery,
which forms the base Of Maryland forests.
Scrub cedar, blackhaw, and May bushes
furnished dense tbicket, where the sad.
dest and most unnatural of deeds could be
consul mated. There, probably, in the
darkness, forty yards from one Of the
most Conspicuous highways, they shook
hands, moved a few PAGES apart, bid adieu
70 each other, and simultaneously sent
bullets crashing through their brains.
The position in which their bodies were
found and the SUR oundings, leave but little
doubt that the above was the precise
manner in which they killed themselves.
Their bodies were about twelve feet apart,
lying exaclly in the situations in which
men are likely to fall who shoot them.
selves through the head Their clothing
WIS not disurdered, a1d no indications oi
Struggle were apparent. The skulls OF
e,ot1 had been pierced by bullets The
dress wl@eh they wore corresponded win
we attire which persons familiar with
Aem il Baltimore lad seen.