Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-18
he HAD A DREAM
That His Sweetheart Had Borne a
Negro Baby
Ard Ne Tied TO Take His life---Fred Dell
bougge Slabs Himself Twenty
Eve Times With Pea Knife
and May Recover

Last evening another poor mortal at
tempted to enter the unknown world through
the medium OF small pocket knife. The
first intimation that the world at large had
Of anything of this nature having transpired
was the startling cries Of, murder, help"
etc, which awakened the people living near
the intersection Of 22d and Main st., about
lOoclock In very few moments Officers
Barrm and Slein5ecker, followed by a large
crowd, soon reached the front of the resi-
dence from which the cries issued which
was Mr.. Delbrugge tailoring establishment
on Main street, just below Twenty-second
street. The officers effected an entrance
and upon rushing up stairs found Mrs. Del
bruggc and daughters leaning over the body
OF Fred Delbrugge, which was stretched out
in the hall, covered with blood. He was
picked up and placed on a bed In the
mean time, several parties had been sent
for doctors and Drs Reed and Alderman
were soon in the injured mans room. Upon
examination they found about twenty
i've knife wounds in the mans left
breast Immediately over the heart
several of them having penetrated the pleural
cavity, bet none of them were pronounced
necessarily fatal The work Of closing the
wounds and checking the flow of blood oc-
cupied considerable time, during which
operation several doses OF brandy had to be
administered, as the injured man swas
greatly Frustrated from the loss Of blood and
the shattered condition of the
nervous system. From the injured
mans mother, Mrs F. A. Delbrugge
he following information was CLEANED.
She said: Fred is q trunk maker by trade,
and works at Mr. Sheppard's, on Main
street He retired to bed about 9 o'clock, IN
a veryssneryous condition, and had to take
sleeping powders before he could calm him
self Invent over to a neighbors across the
street and on entering the louise on my return,
heard very peculiar sound issuing from
that portion of the house in which Fred
rooms. | called nv daughter, and together
we went up stairs and found Fred lying in
The hallway covered with blood and appa-
rentlv dead. Nv daughter secured a pail
of water and with it we brought him back
10 consciousness. He informed us that he
had attempted his life because his sweet
near, was not true to him. During his short
sleep Re dreamed that she was the mother
Of negro baby, which caused him TO COM
nit the act.
FROM other sources the reporter learned
that Fred had been on a spree for about two
we, Ks and that his ladyloye and he wer1 not
getting along as nicely as could he
wished. These two causes, to . great
extent. were the medium of the unsettled
condition of his mind and caused him to
commit the act. The instrument used was
a small pocket knife, which was lying on
his fathers cutting table in the store and
he must have gone down stairs in the dark
and secured the knife, and then returned to
the door of his room, where he deliberately
commenced stabbing himself in the left
breast. The doctors are of the opinion that
the wounds viii not prove fatal, though it is
hard to tell Just what might take place,
owing 10 the condition of the mans ner-
vous system. When not drinking, this man
is considered one of the kindest sons a
mother could wish for, but when under the
influence of liquor he is very morose.