River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-10-18
SINGULAR SUICIDE.
Two Brothers Deliberately shoot
e.. b..ts Themselves Dead. .'t1t


Two Brothers Deliberately shoot
.5 ta t.fs Themselves Dead.
Baltimore (Sept. 19) Correspondence of the New
York Herald.
On Monday las two dead bodies were
found, about two miles from Baltimore,
under circumstances that gave rise to
suspicion that they had been murdered,
and the whole city became agitated over
the mystery that hung about their taking
off, Both were found with pistols by
their sides and bullet holes in their heads
but their bodies were SO much decomposed
that they could not be recognized, and the
coniectures us to the manner Ind cause Of
their death were as various us the people
that talked o., this strange affair.
The case was given to Detective Crane.
and this evening the following facts have
been nnearthed in relation to one of the
strangest suicides that have ever taken
place in this or any other country. Two
young men, Germans, and brothers, named
r. and g. Muller, tortoise shellmarkers,
came to Baltimore about the 18th of
August. They were bountifully supplied
with money, and they dispensed it freely
at drinking saloons and at some Of the
fashionable basnios of the city. From
their manners and appearances, the i'm
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
ofAugust they purchased emigrant tickets
over the Northern Central Railroad te
Steuhenville, Ohio.
For some days afterwards until the Oath
of the same month. they remainedin this
city, probably indulging freely in the dis
sipation " hich its saloons afforded. As
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 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 The elder brother always had
charge of them. s1 t.t. ee
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 a small
single barrelled Allen pistol, and the other
apistol OF large bore, but of the same
pattern. They stated to several parties
in Baltimre that they W ere about going
uponthe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to a
certain point. These parties upon an ex
animation of their tickets told them they
could 60 all the way to Cincinnati with
the tickets, but intimated that they did not
propose going further than the station they
had 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 oath Of August, with the deliberate in
tention of putting an end TO their lives.
They walked on until they reached
small spot of underbrush, about two miles
from the city, i 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 thicket, where the sad.
dest and most unnatural of deeds could be
consummated. There, probably, in the
darkness, forty yards from one of the
most conspicuous highways, they shook
hands, moved a few PAGES apart, bid adieu
to each other, and simultaneously sent
bullets crashing through their brains.
The position in which their bodies were
found and the surroundings, leave but little
doubt that the above was the precise
manner in which they killed themselves.
Their bodies were about twelve feet apart,
lying exactly in the situations in which
men are likely TO fall who shoot them
selves through the head. Their clothing
was not disprdered, and no indications of
struggle were apparent. The skulls OF
both had been pierced by bullets. The
dress which they wore correspondent with
the attire which persons familiar with
hem in Baltimore had seen.