The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-21
The baltimore Mystery Explained
Two German Brothers Commit Sui

Two SermAn Brothers Commit SUI.
eide.
Truth Is undoubtedly sometimes stranger
than fiction. II 1t had been related in q
novel that two young men, brothers, weary
OF life and thoroughly satiated with its pcc.
s,,res, had, In moment OF desperation,
casped hands. derlored their impccunior.
ity, regretted family feuds, and walked out
two miles. on a public highway to lonely
cnpse and put an end to their existence by
pistol shots through their brains, ii would
have been received as the cflmera Of an
overcEnrgcd intellect, and the writer
would have been brought to book for play.
ing with the cicdulity of the public. From
present indications such n thing has actually
taken place. The Baltimore american Of
yesterday says
The police authorities of this city have
been theoretically engaged for the last twer-
ty-four hours in ferreting out the mysterious
expose which was shown up at JackSon's
bridge on Monday. Chief Detective Crone
has left no stone unturned to shed light on
the affair.
THE FOLLOWING PARTICULARS
have been obtained: Two Young men, Ger
man, named r. and G.. Muller, came to Bal.
tiInOrc somewhere about the 18th of August.
They were beautifully supplied with money.
and they dispensed it freely at drinking "a
Icons and at some of the fashionable baenics
Of the city. From their manners aud appear
ancc the impression was produced on the
minds Of the detective force that they be-
longed to the .fdnCy-that il, to Use their
own words, "they were not all right" On
the 10th Of August they purchased emigrant
tickets over the Northern Central railway to
Cincinnati ola Steubenvilie, Ohio. For some
days afterwards, until the oath of the same
month, they remained in this city, probably
tndulging freely in the designations which
its salo"n> afforded. AS natural conse-
quence, thrlr funds ran short. They made
no secret of their situation. Remarks were
dropped from time to time in different So
looms which indicated that they were bro
theirs, and family difficulties oppressed them
also that they had spent nearly all the money
they hud, and one Of them said to the other
that they had
SCARCELY A DOLLAR
left, and proposed that they should buy pis-
tolls and kill themselves. The railroad tick
cts which they had purchased were frequent
Iy exhibited in the restaurants of the city,
and it was noticed that the elder brother al
ways had charge of them. On or about the
oath of August they disappeared. Prior to
their departure they visited small shop Oh
west Baltimore street where firearms are
sold and
PURCHASED TWO PISTOLS,
one u small single-barrclled Allen pistol, the
other pistol of larger bore but OF the same
pattern. They stated to several parties in
Baltimore that they were about to go up OIL
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to certain
point. These parties, upon an examination
of their tickets, tol! them that they could go
all the way to Cincinnati with them the
tickets, but they intimated that they did
not propose going further than the station
they had mentioned, The rest is left to con.
lecture, From what i already known these
two men (whose names for prudential rea-
sons the detectives ut present $upprcsS) must
have strolled out on the Washington road on
| tie evening of the oath of August. With the
deliberate intention of putting an end to
| their lives they walked on until they reached
| "A small c0pse Of lInderhrrsh about two miles
| from the city. 4 secluded spot it was; grown
| over by the heavier shrubhcry which forms
| the base of Maryland forests. Scrub cedar,
| blackhaW and May bushes furnished Il dense
| thicket, where the saddest aud most unnatu-
| ril of deeds could be colsummatcd. There.
| probably in the darkness which nature kind.
| " threw over them, forty yards from one OF
| the most conspicuous highways, they SHOOK
| hands, moved Il few PAGES apart, bid adicu
| to each other, and simultaneously sent
BULLETS CRASHING THROUGH THEIR BRAINS,
as though the Supreme Being had placed
| their lives at their disposal TO do with as they
| thought proper. The positions in Which
| Their bodies were found and the surround
| ngs leave but little doubt that the above WAS
the precise manner in which they killed
| themselves. Tucir bodies were about twelve
feet apart, lying exactly in the situations mel
are likely to tall who shoot themselves
Through the head. Their clothing WAS not
disortercd 10 indications of Il strll"g IL were
apparent; the skulls Of both lad been
pierced by bullets; the t.res> which they wore
| correspondent with the attire which persons
familiar with them in Baltimore had seer
| them wear.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT
in the american says: After purchasing the
pistols they returned to No. hi Raborg street
| where they exhibited the weapons 10 the III
! mates, and also showed Two half-lare emf
grant tickets to Cincinnati. The men len
there on the same day, stating that they Were
| going to the country. and on The 10th August
| Mr.. Waidner received a letter from them
| written in German, dated at Cumberland,
| directing him to 20 TO SchultZ's and get their
| baggage, consisting of two suits Of clothing.
two white shirts, under-clothing. &c, and
! forward them to Cumberland to the address
| OF K. and q. Muller, care of Conrad LattiS.
| The baggage, h0wei cr, was not sent, and
on the 24th they returned to the city and
again Went to No. IS Raborg street, and
| found that Waidner had not called at
Schuitz's for the baggage. One of them went
| to Schultz's again and was &c go and get
| his brother md then the baggage would be
| delivered. lie dld not again return, it is
| thought, because he feared arrest. They af-
| forwards became much depressed in spirits.
| Previous 10 this they had told the females ut
| No. 81 Raborg street that if they lost their
money they would blow out their brains.
Robert spoke of having wife in New York.
They stated that they had to steal away from
Cumberland on coal train. In the letter
written in German to Waidner they say:
chow are things in Baltimore? If the road
is clear we shall come back again; at any
rate answer this you understand it." The
boots on the dead men and the pistols have
been identified by several parties as belong
ing to tue Muller brothers, and there eau he
no doubt the men committed suicide. .-
A NOTE FROM EMPRESS EUGENE The
following letter from the ex-Empress of the
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