The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-07-08

some empty beer bottles in the room,
and two-bladed pocket knife with .
corksorew attached was on the window
sill. A kerosene lamp stood on the
floor near Fishers body, and the glass
chimney was OH valise. On the wall,
about three feet from the floor, were
black stains in the form of finger-prints.
County Physician Williamson. of New
Brunswick, came in the afternoon and
made an autopsy. DR.. Chauncy M.
Field, of Bound Brook, was present
The ball that killed Fisher penetrated
the abdomen and emerged at the back.
Death, the doctor said, would not nec-
cssarily have been instantaneous. The
bullet that killed Langes is believed to
have gone through the heart and lodged
near the shoulder-blade. The theory OF
the double tragedy is that Fisher shot
Langes while the latter was asleep,
standing at the foot of the bed when he
fired that he then tore open the bolster
and scattered the feathers on the bed,
and. taking the chimney from the lamp,
set fire TO the feathers and then shot
himself while standing at the side Of
the bed. From the condition of the
bodies it is inferred that the shooting
was at about two or three o'clock yes
terday morning. Feathers do not readi-
ly burst into a blaze when ignitcd, but
the oil in them produces much smoke.
Conjecture supplies Fisher with mo-
tive for killing the brother of the girl
he was to marry, putting an end to his
own life, and endeavoring to conceal
what he had done by leaving nothing
but q bed of ashes to mark the scene
of the tragedy. He had been led
to believe that the girl would have
a small dowry. He was himself of a
thrifty and somewhat penurious dispo-
sition. One day Langes told him that
his sister would receive no money from
home, and Fisher seemed rather dis
pleased. 1t is said Langes worried
Fisher by insisting that after the marri-
age he should deed the little farm 10 his
wife. Fisher had often said, speaking
of the young woman, that he was sure
he was going to like her. But he was
not pleased at Langes' intermediation in
money matters. 1t is conjectured that
on the night before the young woman's s
arrival they fell to talking about her Sfter
they had gone to bed = they Slept
together - and that Langes said
something that angered Fisher.
Langes, it is thought, laid
his briarwood pipe on the window sill,
and went to sleep; and Fisher allowed
himself to dwell upon the possible mis-
cries that might arise from the mar
riage he was about to make, until he
was carried to that pitch of excitement
necessary to the rerpetration of the
deed with which he is accredited. 1t is
conjectured that the black marks on the
wall were made by Fisher while cropping
around the room after he had shot him
self and become unconscious, and had
been restored to consciousness by the
burning of his hand in the smoldering
litter where he first fell. There seem
to be no reasons for suspecting that the
two men were killed by third person.
About eleven dollars was found in
Fishers trousers pocket, and about
three dollars in Langes'. r
Ida Langes was met at the railway
station in Bound Brook by Joseph
Smith, a German. He broke the news
TO her as gently as be knew how. He
went with her to the house of Valentine
Bohm, out on the road toward the
scene of the tragedy. Late in the
afternoon Mrs. Bohm, a kindly Ger
ma11 woman, went with the heart
broken girl to Fishers house. The
yard and the street in front of the
house were thronged with persons who
had been drawn by curiosity to the
scene of the tragedy. The young
woman was told that the dead were not
in condition to be seen. The physicians
were then making the post-mortem ex-
animation in the case of Fisher. Langes
was lying untouched where he died,
and the lens of a photographers ca
mera glared on the scene within the
room in which he lay. Ida Langes was
taken back to the home of Mrs. Bohm.
She is overcome with grief, and the
sorrow of reading the postal card an
nouncing the death of her eldest broth
er in Germany awaits her. She has no
relatives nor friends other than new
found ones in this country.
Fisher was fine-looking man, tall
and well-formed, with straight figure
and muscular limbs. He had brown
hair, dark eyes, and slight moustache.
Langes was of less compact and strong
build, and his features were more char.
acteristic of the German type.-M y
Sun.