Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-25
THE PERPETUAL MOTION MAN
DEAD.

The readers of the MORNING APPEAL will
recollect Heinrich Schumacher, the middle
aged German, who was engaged i'll this city
for quite while experimenting on perpet-
ual motion engine. About year since he
| was possessed with the hallucination that the
| object to which he had devoted so many years
| of his life had been accomplished; he really
believed that he had discovered the philoso-
phy of constructing an engine, which, when
once put in motion, would run forever with
out stopping. 1t is not quite year since
Schumacher went East, full of expectations of
immortalizing his Teutonic name, and rolling
up untold wealth letter received here yes
terday from Boston, states that Schumacher
endeavored to enlist monayed men of that
staid old city in his wild scheme, but failed to
interest any one in it, He then went to New
York, meeting with similar disappointments
Schumacher became very Respondent and
impecunlous, and some of his friends raised
sufficient funds to send him to Germany
where he thought hisgreat achievement would
meet with enthusiastic favor. In his Father
than ever, and a month ago he returned to
Boston, a discouraged and heartbroken man.
Since his return he had been acting very
strangely, and his friends considered him in
sane; but the type of his dementia was of
mild and harmless nature; he would sit in
corner for hours and weep, calling upon God
to punish the incredibly of mankind
On the morning of the 9Th of June, when
the chambermaid of the German boarding |
house in which he was stopping, went into
his room, she was Mortified at seeing Schu-
nacher living on his bed dressed, bullet hole
through his right temple, and his right hand
irmIy clutching an old fashioned pistol, with
which he sent his spirit to its last accounting.
The suicide wrote several letters before his
oul took flight to the Great Beyond, and
.mong them was one for gentleman OF this
ity, which was enclosed in the communica-
ion conveying the news of Schumachers
miserable death. 1t was written III German,
nd its translation reads as follows:
Boston, June I, 1879, II clock, midnight
My OLD FRIEND: Disappointments and a
old unappreciative world have emblrtered
nv ambitious existence. | have nothing more
o live for, and in an hour | shall put a period
o a life which has been devoted to researches
Or the benefit of my fellow man. | succeeded E
n solving problem, for the solution of which
nany bright and intelligent lives have been
'recked, millions of money expended, and ! I
Ow much midnight oil burned But the I
capitalist would not aid me in lem t
!, I l.
liShed for its good and promotion. A wise
Providence selected NE an agent to solve [
he perpetual motion philosophy but | was
allied crazy. Had only 81 600 been advanced !
he, | would have by this time revolutionized
he world, and az my death high monument q
ould have been erected over my grave, deS- c
,nating me as one of the greatest benefactOrs a
the human race. But, now, my secret
hich is so invaluable, will godown to oblivion
it'll me. Your Miserable Friend,
HEINRICH SCHUMACHER a
The recipient of the foregoing letter was a
Ultimately acquainted with the deceased, and Il
al known him for the better part of twenty I
ears. He says that Schumacher was very
ratio and frequently afflicted with com q
amt termed melancholia, which fact may h
I'VE leo those VINO ulu not unuerSCalu MS | 50
,cuiarities to believe him to be demented. 81
uoting the dead inventors Carson friends
gn language, he said; "There is not a tt
adow of doubt in my mind that Schu- OF
acher had solved that great philosophical Il
igma and the advancement of few paltry q
liars would have evidenced that fact to the
'rd. | had no money, consequently could RI;
nothing for my dead friend but | am as O.
nfident that Schumacher had mastered per- D
tual motion as | am that the sun shines"
lie gentleman herein referred to is very
elligent one, over whose eyes wool cannot IN
silly be drawn, and whose word has some "~
light with thinking men, Many reflective al
nd will now ask Odd Schumacher really
We the mystery !" But the answer is in ce
cold, unmarked grave, and will not be re- We
ned until Gabrial sounds the last bugle Ids
!.
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