Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-14
UNITED IN DEATH.
adSph Bidmenreuter Could Not
Live
Without His Wife, and by His Own Hand
Takes His Life by the Grave Of His
Loved 0ne-A History Of the
Deed and the Cause.

Yesterday afternoon about half-past 3
O'Clock, word was received by Squire
Sweeney that a man had committed suicide
at the Peninsula Cemetery. The Squire
at once went out, and beside recently
made grave, found the prostrate body OF
man with no mark OF violence upon him,
except cash in the inside of his left arm
inst above the elbow. A bloody razor lying
in the grass near by readily accounted for
the cause of death, and a note on the body
promised solution OF the cause.
Constable Lauchlin searched the body
and the following articles wepe found:
Two German medals, pocket purse OF Ger
man make, another pair OF spectacles,
long switch of hair (supposed to be that OF
his late wife) and 81 60 in silver, HE had
on a neat black broadcloth coat, light pan
falcons and vest and felt hat.
In q very few moments the Squire I'M
paneled thefollowing jury:
VIM. Gill, John He'll, John Wilson, n. j..
Roth, VIM. McGannon, VIM. Bayha, Geo,
Wells, John Leonhart, J. H. Meyer, George
Arkle, Theodore Myers and Henry Lindon.
On examination of the body 1t was recog-
nized as that o. Adolph Biumenreuter by
letter with no address on it, but signed
by him. This letter was written for the
public in general, and an exact copy
is below.
The first witness sworn was Rev. Masden,
who stated that he had gone out
to the cemetery by request of a
lady and that while walking among the
graves he noticed this man lying
on the grass near grave, but supposed
he was drunk or asleep, and in going near
him, he discovered that the man was bleed
ing very freely. He rushed OIL for assis-
tance, and also to telephone and sent a
message to the Squire. Mr.. Masden says
that the man was breathing when he left
him, but on his return he was dead. DIR.
Wilson was sworn and testified that the de-
ceased came to his death by bleeding from
The wound on his left arm, which is about
three inches long, and across the inside OF
the elbow, seyering the artery OF the arm.
No other marks of violence were discovered.
The sexton's sons, Charles and William
Heiser, were sworn, and both told the same
story, that they saw the deceased coming
up the road to the cemetery about3 o'clock,
and that he came there nearly every day to
visit his wifes grave. After the jury had
heard the evidence they returned the fol.
lowing verdict: 1--WE, the jury, find from
the evidence that the deceased came to his
death by his own hands by cutting an
artery in his left arm with a razor, which
caused his death.
[Signedl GEO; ARKLE, >,
The body was then turned over to
Mendel & Co. for burial.
There was also a letter written in Ger
man in his pocket. The following is cor
rect translation of it:
II will and cannot live any longer with
out my beloved wife. A dear wife, who
followed during thirty years her husband
through all troubles and misfortunes, can
- Ioft IN hnman
ciety may criticise me as it pleases. ! am
standing now before another Judge where
fSienedi "BLUMEYREUTER"
The following small bit of history may
throw some light as to why the man did
the desperate deed:
Adolph Blumenreuter arrived in this
country with his wife in July, 1881, and
lived in Fulton on very good terms with
her, to whom he had been married thirty
years. =.
He formerly was in very good circum
stances in the old countryr-but failed and
Lis property was sold. His wife stood all
/ troubles very bravely and never complain
ed. Last April she suddenly died
| within an hour-of apoplexy. Since
that time he became very
| despondent and already, some two or three
weeks ago, he asked Mr.. Wintor, in Full
i ton, to lend him his gun, but was refused
About the 5th Of this month his landlord
sent him notice to quit, and this made him
still more Respondent. At about 8 O'Clock
yesterday he wrote few lines which ht
put in his pocket, and then went TO Her
man Gehringer's, in Fulton, where he
drank a glass of blackberry wine with
Mr.. Ernst Bresneiler, under whom he
helped to build the Steenrod bridge. He
then shook hands and said he would go tc
his wife, and left for the city graveyard
where he took his own life alongside of his
wife's grave.
On his breast he wore two war medals
one of Fred Williams ", of Prussia, OF the
year 1S4S, and one of the Grand Due Of
Baden, IS49, which had the following in
scriptions on them respectively;
ITO Ny Faithful Army"
''To the Brave Liberators of My Country