Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-24
LOVE AND SUICIDE.

A Young German Baron's Tragic Oath BY
shooting-He Bids His sweethear Good
bye and Then Fires Three Shots a HIS
Head-A Strange Meeting and Sad End.
New YORK, September 23.-Mary Muller,
sged nineteen, petite and prepossessing,
came to this country at the age Of four
years from Germany. At fourteen she went
to service, and was employed up to seven
months ago as a domestic in family liv-
ing at the corner Of Grove and Thirteenth
streets, Jersey City. Then she went to st
Louis. She became homesick and returned
10 New York, finding q home with mar
ried sister, Mrs. Augusta Duer, who resides
on the third floor of No. l2S Liberty
street. About four weeks ago on going up
town in Third avenue ucar young Ger.
man spoke to her, and after short conver-
sation asked her address anu permission to
call upon her. She consented to the re-
quest in both particulars, and thereafter he
called at the house in Liberty street regu
larly. She went TO the theatre with him
two or three times and once or twice to pic
MICS. He gave his name as Charles Her.
man and said be was employed as lum-
Der salesman at No. S2s East Twenty-6fth
street. Herman called last evening at
seven o 'clocR Sand remained till elcsen.
During the visit he seemed cheerful, and
asked Miss Muller in the preseuce Of her
sis,erin-law if she loved him. She returned
returned no answer, and when he went away
he said pleasantly that he would call again
Friday evening.
The Suicide.
Shortly after o'clock this morning Her.
man came into the house and made some
remark in German to Miss Muller, which
the married sister did not understand and
which the girl does not now remember,
Herman then went out. In few minutes
he returned and asked the girl to 60 with
him into the front room. He seemed
greatly excited and had probably been
drinking. As soon as they had passed into
the front room he closed the door behind
her and said, Mary, | have come to bid
you goodbye" He then drew pistol
from his pocket Miss Muller caught his
arm, saying, Shoot me, not yourself"
AS she spoke he fired, at the
same time saying, My poor mother
and father" and the ball was guided BY her
sudden movement into the ceiling Then
she ran to her sister and Herman fired two
more shots from the revolver as he stood
alone in front of the mirror. The first shot
: assed through his checks from one temple
10 the other. He tell bleeding and senseless
20 the floor The neighbors were hastily
called in, the police notified and an ambu-
lance summoned. Herman was removed to
the Chambers Street Hospital al quarter
10 nine o'clock, and at quarter past ten
lie died.
Who He Was
Charles, or, as some Of his acquantances
know him, Caesar Hermann, was twenty.
ight years OF age, and had been in this
country eleven years He WAS native Of
Hamburg, Germany, and was the son Of a
distinguished Judge now occupying high
judicial position in Hamburg, and ranking
rs nobleman Of the Empire. Hermann
Himself, consequently, was a baron by birth,
os his father became one by virtue of his
commission. He left home it is under
stood, because he wanted to see the world
and after arriving here was TOO proud TO
70 back pool and so remained.
An Culinary Occurrence.
After the shooting occurred Miss Mailer
he'd few tears, but talked over the tragedy
.s if il was an ordinary occurrence. Shc
says that Hermann never made love to her
or expressed q desire TO marry her. Hc
was. However, of jealous disposition she
aid. AtNo 6I Second avenue, it was said
hat Hermann engaged a furnished room
here, but nothing further was known o.
him.