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

All serve to swell the Joy that nils
My soul, that faithful to its source
Alone harmonious can sound
Where Nature breathes in life profound
And throngs each pulse with throbbing force.
-Spinadeid (hdss.) Republican,
IDA LANGES' GREAT SORROW.
Lover nad Her Brother. and Learning
that Both Lay Dend In their House, Vie
tins OF a Terrible Tragedy-A Message
Aaneuneanx the Death Of Another Brother.
Some seven or eight years ago Hugo
Fisher. a young German, then about
twenty-nine years old, bought o small
farm a mile from Bound Brook, N. j.,
on the Plainficld road. He was we'll
educated. having spent some years in
one of the German universities. After
quitting the university he came to
America in order to escape military
service. He built on his farm of less
than q dozen acres q neat two-story
Louise, a barn and other outbuildings,
and in succeeding years he improved
his place until it became an attractive
home. He lived there usually with no
other company than his hired man.
Last winter Fisher engaged Langes,
German, twenty-six years old, to
work for him. Langes came from ST.
lesia- In the course of their talks about
their homes in the fatherland, Langes
told Fisher about a pretty sister he had
in Germany and showed him her photo
graph. 1t was q picture of a handsome
woman, about twenty-eight years old,
with dark eyes and brown hair. Fisher
was pleased with the picture, and he
asked Langes to introduce him to her
by letter. A correspondence thus bd-
gun between Fisher and Langes' sister
Ida resulted in an engagement, it is be-
heved, and the young woman sailed for
America ON June in the Hamburg
steamship Wieland. Her going from
home was q sad parting, for she said
good-by to brother who was believed
to be on his deathbed. She arrived in
this country on Tuesday evening, and
went to Naegeli's Hotel. in Ho6oken.
Yesterday morning she sent to Bound
Brook the following dispatch:
Hugo FGsher:
IDA LANGEs.
A reply was sent, not by Fisher. ask.
ing her to go Immediately to Bound
Brook. She arrived there at 5:1S in the
afternoon, to learn that her brother
and her lover both lay dead in the
latter's house. When this news was
broken to her she was speechless. A
postal card awaits her in the Bound
Brook Post-ofice, with news that her
brother in Germany, whom she left on
his deathbcd, died before the vessel
sailed from Hamburg.
At about ten O'Clock yesterday fore
noon George Somers, the Western
Union Telegraph messenger boy at
Bound Brook, went to Fishers house
with the dispatch from Ida Langes.
He found all the doors locked, and
there were no evidences of-nfe about
the place. The telegraph boy went
to the house of Mr.. Smock, q short dis
tance away, and told him that he
could not get into Fishers. Mr.. Smock
called his hired boy, Bernard Egel,
who was out at work in field near
Fishers house, and sent him with the
telegraph messenger to see whether
anything was the matter. Mr.. Smock,
while in the field earlier in the day,
had seen smoke coming from be-
tween the Stats of the blinds of Fishers
windows; but he conjectured that it
came from the stove at which he sup
posed Fisher and Langes were cooking
their breakfast. When young Egel
and the telegraph boy arrived at Fishers
they found Charles Greeder, of Plain
field, trying to raise a window in order
that he might leave some bottles of
beer which Fisher had ordered on the
previous evening, telling him that if
there was no one about the house when
he came in the morning he might get
the bottles through one of the back
windows. After looking about the
premises and finding no one, they
forced one of the windows open. A
sickening smell, as of some oily sub
/ stance burning. pervaded the house.
Young Egel went through the window.
Everything was as usual down stairs.
He went TO the upper story. All of the
doors save one were open. This one
leads to rear bedroom, eight by ten
feet in size. Egel opened the door. and
a puff of smoke came out. He saw one
of the men lying on the bed and the
other on the floor, and smoke was curl
ing up from some litter in which the
"Fisherr and as he did so he caught a
glimpse of Langes' eyes. which caused
him to flee down stairs shouting,
They are both deadr'
The boy sped back to the telegraph
Office with the message unopened.
Egel and Greeder got pals of water and
put out the smoldering fire. COnsta-
Bile Robert L. Pierce was called.
Langes was found lying on the back
side of bed that occupied a southern
corner of the small room. His position
was that of a man who had been trans
fixed with a spear while sleeping. His
head was on a pillow. His arms and
legs were bent at the elbows and knees.
His hands were clcnched and his feet
were cramped. There was a bullet
hole in his left breast an inch to the
left of the nipple. As he lay the wound
was on nearly the highest part of his
chest, and the blood from it had flowed
in all directions, indicating that his
only motion after being shot was to
draw up his arms and legs. He had on
a striped calico shirt. Fisher was lying
on his back by the side of the bed, on
| the floor. There was a bullet hole in
his body just below the lower part
of the breast bone. He was covered
with blood, and feathers stuck to the
blood. His back, left side and left arm
were charred with fire. The elbow and
a part of the hand were consumed.
Under his body three holes as large as
| q mans hat crown were burned in the
floor. The bed and the floor near Fish
er were Uttered with feathers that had
been shaken from a large bolster and
| scattered around. Dense smoke filled
the room.
Near Fishers head lay large five-
chambered Colts navy revolver, in
| which there were two cartridges, two
| empty shells and one vacant chamber.
The blinds on the window at the back
of the bed were closed, and Langes'
briar-wood pipe lay on the sill. The
blinds near the head of the bed were
also closed. A lantern hung at the