Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18
THE DAILY RECORD-UNION.
A MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
The following is from the San Francisco
D, JoSio Of Sapfau,har 18Th.

The following is from the San Francisco
Bulletin of September 10th:
The mystery surrounding the woman
found drifting about in a boat in the ba,
last Saturday afternoon, and the disappear
ance of the man who was known to have
accompanied her, has at last been ex
planned. Last evening Captain Lees and
Detective John Coffey discovered the cir
on Eddy street and obtained from her the
following statement
The missing man is George Mueller, pi-
anist, for some time past employed at the
Atlantic Gardens at North Beach. He
became infatuated with a girl named Liz
zie, and subsequently met the young Ger
man girl who was with him on Sunday
last, and with whom he divided his affec-
ton He seemed, however, to prefer LIZ
zie, but cruel parents came between him
and the object of his passion. He then
began to drink heavily Last Sunday he
called upon the German girl and asked
her to go to walk They went to Long
Bridge and there took boat and rowed
out into the bay. Mueller began to talk
very despondIngly, and said that he would
commit suicide. The water was cool, he
remarked, as he plunged his hand into it,
and would make good grave. he then
told his companion that he had been mar
ried and had two children, but his wife
was dead. He kept talking of suicide, and
wanted to give the girl his ring before he
Jumped overheard. She was frightened,
and told him not to talk so, but he not
only continued to talk OF jumping over
into the water, but rose several times
as though about to put his threat into
execution. The girl, however, pulled him
back to his seat, and he at last
remarked that he had not the moral cour-
age to commit suicide. His companion
began to feel that the worst was over, and
that Mueller had come to his senses, when
she was Mortified to hear him exclaim that
there was a letter in his room which would
explain all, and thereupon rush to the bow
of the boat and plunge overheard. As
soon as he was in the water, the girl said,
he began to swim, and tried to reach the
boat, but the waves were high and the
wind strong, and the distance be-
tween them continued to widen.
He then began to call for help. She
tried to pull toward him, but found her
self unable to do So Mueller then began
to swim toward Goat Island, and was in
sight for long while. For fifteen or
twenty minutes the girl heard his cries for
help, and then they seemed to die away in
the distance. She again tried to row the
boat, but found that her strength was in
sufficient to do SO, and so she tied her hand.
kerchef to an oar, which she held upright,
and suffered the boat to float, hoping that
her condition would be discovered and
help would come. In the course of two
hours she was rescued by Chinese fisher.
men, who took her to Hunters Point.
Under advice of friend, foreigner, she
delayed giving any account of the affair to
the police, hoping that Mueller was not
dead
In Muellers room was found the follow
ing letter.
SUNDAY, September II, 1880.
DEAR LIzziE Take all possess. Sell everything
Put it into money and pay for the children. love
your ul l cannot get you, and this girl at -
must suffer for you. Good-by. Do not let my
tathe-.
Whether the reference to the other girl
implied design to do her an injury is not
known. Mueller's body has not been re-
covered.