New-York tribune., 1896-10-22
RiURTNCH TAKES HIS OWN LIfE.
THE ABscONDING JUNEAU BANKER SHOOTS
HIMSELF IN THE NATIONAL CEMETERY
At FRrpERIcKSBtRG

r,ader,.ksburg Va oct .l.-W. T. Rambusch, inc
sb.condug banker from Juneau. Wis. Killed himself
here last night Rambusch came here week ago
and registered A, hotel as G. T Anderson. lie had
since then been visiting the batiefeli' lie sho'
hlm.el. In the National Cemetery here. The BODY
was found in sitting posture the hand sii'' grasp
ing the pistol with which he had shot himself in tho
right ,enplc lie left a note saying ne wished 10
die among his comrades. One hundred dollars was
found on the body.
l, was evdcn, from papers found o. Kamousch's
person that he had contemplated suicide, bu' was
fastened in committing the deed by the appearance
In Yesterday evening papers o, cut OF himself and
II detailed account OF his crime. lie addressed let
ter 10 the PresbyteTian minister asking that he offer
prayer over hl- grave and beg Heavens protection
i1r h!s wife and daughter lie reI"rstrl tiia' il.s
De requested TO come mere and Identify his body. so
that hi. family would have no trouble IN securing ne
n" said when he came here that he was In !l-heath
ana had been ordered by his physician to seek re-t
ana recreation and a. hc had not visited the odiilr
fields near this city since the war he hiI come 10 TINS
place He had a small hand-saiehei IN which were
cnange of underwear ana few othef snali Drt,''S-
ngs and yl2i lie requested that this sum should be
used IN settling hi- upaii hotel n!Ii ana 'uhetdl eN
p.ns-s. lie was methodlcai IN al hc I!o ana w"nt
In hl. death with drlibcratln ana calnlness "hch
only man OF Iron nerve eonld cofninana l., a..
T..egrams have been received from friends IN W -
consln and New-lOrk but a they "cir somewhat
conflicting the sepders have been summoned mere n j.
person. The letters 70 his vile ana John cur'.s oil
Centrevli. h!s cousin. were, Al ms request, ioi !,
a ,ri.I unopened. In none OK hl- communications dli
M. refer the grave charges inAie asais, MN
,v,iaalru Tho odor Rambusch was half-brother to
,b. father of Erode g. ". Rambusch. Of the firm OF
R,rnbusch 4 Petit designers. No. l.l95 broadway.
this citv Mr. Ramlusch received telegram from
coroner pogg,tt OF Fredericksburg yesterday ted
,,g him Of MS uncle's death. Owing to mistake
In us wording he hurried over 10 Brooklyn, 10 IN"
hous, of CAPTAIN Harold 4. Bagger. In Ffty-ses-
o,,hs who is also a nephew OF W 7. Rambusch,
xn.c,lnc 10 ind that the body mad been sent North
a., ,rd Ca,tain Bagger started for Fredericksburg
LAST nigh, TO identify the dead man, according to
hi. own rcfiest They vii telegraph to Mrs Ram
husch In Juneau Wis. upon their arrival. and her
wishes will determine the place where The body Will
be buried.
Wilhelm T Ram5usch was born In Denmark
about sixty wears ago. His father AZ time held
n high Office In the State. corresponding TO that OF
~ taxes The family had for generations held Gov
ornment posltions and that ne might follow tho
came course of life. young Rambusch was sent to
,Le University OF Copenhagen TO study law agansl
| nis Iii lie failed to pass examination there.
| and feeling isgTaccd. asked his father s. pefmiS
sion ia eave Denmark for America. ms wa a,
III, ,ecn and became a clerk In a LAWYERS oficc.
idc eryrd on the Union side during the whole oi t
| iat. war Al one time he held position III the
noe,al service and was one or the TWO dci'eat'7
~, ,hIs country to the postal convention held III
| iiernc about twenty-five years ago T., ,
! For the last twenty years he had lived IN yun.a
where he held prominent pihoc h ol,hv ~, IN hu, lived
,nndnstiv So rar as his friends knew he was nor
adiic,ed 10 drink bad habits OF any DESCRIPTION,
III II ,falca,I ,Ion and departure a few days ago
aa-,v 49,. nrostrated his wife, and proved n Rredt
| nhncE 10 his friends here. who heard OF IL hrs'
| through the newspape.s