The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-29
Murder out by TeIephone.

4 heard a strange story today" said
the doctor in his Office late at night, TO the
Detroit Free Press.
You remember" he said when Frank
Broter was found In the hall OF my office
Win a bullet through his brain and pis-
The reporter nodded in affirmation.
on KNOW he continued, that every
BODY thought II was suicide, for Frank
was then under treatment by me for a
nervous affection that made him wild at
times. I thought ne had taken his own
lie, as every one else did and he was
buried Under that impression. The cOrO-
ner verdict was to the same effect also
I Wen, to-day his sister died. and before
she crossed the dark river she asked to
see me alcnes and now I know that we
were all mistaken about poor Frank.
There was another Orother, If you re-
member, named George and he was the
black sheep Of the family a bad boy from
the beginning, he grew worse when his
widowed mother died. and for five years
before Frank death he and his sister
VINO worked, as you know, in the central
Office Of the telephone COMPANY stipportted
MN. They boarded him in the same house
win themselves, and as far as appear
ances went, he had quite as much Of the
WORLDS goods as either OF them. He
crank and gambled and was in trouble all
the time, and often threatened them if
they ga not give him more money. This
they dld. but the more he received from
theIn the more he asked, and finally he
made such demand 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
threatened to kill them both No one
knew or this except the brother and sis
yer, Tor the girl was sensitive and shrank
from telling her troubles to her friends.
"On the day Of his death Frank came to
my once 10 see me, and there was no one
aDout. had been called away suddenly
and had taken my assistant and nv door
shortly. did come back and when / did
I r1uIIq FRANK lying in the hail with the
P1sIiol oy ms side 1t was his own pistol
ana you know the. rest-llp- to- to-day
To-day the sister told me that George
mad Killed Frank. As far as she could
determine George had followed him there
ana mad quarelled with him in the hall
70 satisfy himself that George was telling
the truth he had gone TO my telephone
ana Gslied UP his sister at the central of
nee. Evidently the two brothers were near
uhe instrument. for as Frank called she
heard the voice of George ordering him
away. She could hear the struggle, as it
continued in the hail, and then suddenly
anne me crack OF a pistol. and Frank
screamed: 'Oh, Georgel Georeel brother
YOU nave killed mev That was ali she
could remember, except the slamminp of a
door as George hurried out Of the haIl for
she tainted. When she was restored to
consciousness the sister asserted itself
ht' anu she felt that before she told
her dreadful story she must first know
what mad happened. She was not a strong
girl, and the fainting spell excited little or
no alarm; SO that no one thought Of con-
necung the fainting with the tragedy In
tact: had neved heard Of 1t until she told
me herseii When she learned that Frank
mad committed suicide and she alone could
pear witness TO the contrary she closed
her fps for the sake Of her brother. and
she mas never spoken of It until to-day
and only now because George is dead
ana she told me that she owed it to Frank S
TO let some one know he had not taken his
own life
That's what killed her." l said. horri-
fed 2 the story
i m sure of it," replied the doctor. she
mas decllned since Franks death, and
nothing l could do for her appeared to
have any effect
And yet" he concluded. IF George had
Deen living she would have taken her
secret to the grave with her"