Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-05-02
MURDER OFT BY TELEPHONE.
\ Girl Hears the Fatal Quarrel of Her
Brothers.

3 \ Girl Hears the Fatal Quarrel of Her
\ Brothers.
Il heard a strange story today" said
\ the doctor In his Office late ut night.
| You remember" he Said, when
\ Frank Broter was found In the hall OF
my office with bullet through his
4 brain and pistol by his side?"
The reporter nodded in affirmation.
You know" he continued, that
everybody thought 1t was suicide. for
Frank WAS then under treatment by
me Cor a nervous affection that made
him wild at times. | thought he had
taken his own life. as every one else
did, and he was buried under that im-
preston. The coroner's verdict was TO
the same effect also. Well, today his
sister died and before she crossed the
dark river she asked to see me alone,
aud now | know that we were all mis-
, taken about poor Frank.
"rhere was another brother, II you
remember, named George and he was
the black sheep of the family. A bad
/ boy from the beginning, he grew worse
I when his widowed mother died, ana
for five years before Franks death he
and his sister, who worked as you
/ know, In the central office of the tele-
, phone company, supported him. They
J boarded him In the same house with
themselves, and, as far as Appearances
] went he had quite as much of the
/ worlds goods MS either Of them. He
| drank and gamblel and was In trou-
bile all the time. aud often threatened
them IL they did not give him more
money This they did, but the more
he received from them the more he
asked, and finally he made such n d
, mand upon Frank THAT he refused to
do anything for him except to board
and clothe him. The sister Joined
with Frank in this resolve, and George
I threatened to kill them both No one
knew Of this except the brother and
sister for the girl was sensitive and
shlank from telling her troubles TO her
friends
ION the day Of his death Frank
came 10 my office To see me- and there
was no one about. | had been called
away suddenly. aud had taken my as-
sstant and my door-boy with me, as
| expected to return shortly | did
come back. and when | did found
Frank lying In the hall with the pistol
by his side. II was his own pistol and
you know the rest-up to today.
To-day the sister told me that
George had killed Frank. As far as
She could determine George had fol-
lowed him there, and had quarrelcd
4 with him In the hall. To satisfy him
self that George was telling the truth
he had gone to my telephone aud
called up his sister at the central Of
flee. Evidently the two brothers were
near the instrument, for as Frank
\ called she heard the voice Of George
ordering him away. She could hear
the struggle, as 1t continued In the
llall, and then suddenly came the crack
I OF q pistol, and Frank screamed: "Oh,
George! George. brother, you have
killed mel That was all she could
. remember, except the slammlng Of d
door as George hurried out of the hall,
for she tainted. Wtlen she was re-
stored 10 consciousness the sister as
: serted itself first, and she felt
} that before she told her dreadful story
she must first know what had hap
pened She was not strong girl, and
the fNinting spell excited little or no
alarm 50 that no one thought Of con-
+ Meeting the fainting with the tragedy
q In fact, had never heard Of It until
she told me 50 herself. When she
j learned that Frank had committed
suicide and she alone could bear Wit
ness to the contrary she closed her
, lips for the sake Of her brother, and
she has never spoken Of 1t until today,
I and only now because George II dead
, and she told me that she owed 1t to
Franks TO lot some one know he had
: not taken his own life
"1ihat's what killed her" | said,
) Mortified at the stoty.
I'm sure Of III, replied the doctor.
! "she has declined since Franks death.
. and nothing ! could ID for her mp
0 peared % have any effect.
e And yet" he concluded, 'lf George
had been living she would have taken
I her secret to the grave with her
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