El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-17
KILLED HIMSELF
DR.. BuImer's Remains Found.

AS was feare DR.. T. S. Bulmer in
fit of despondency com United suicide.
The first news received in Ell Paso of
his death came yesterday ABOUT 1:3O
when Judge Harper received mes
ssge from Sierra Blanca saying that
the searching party bad found the re-
N sins of the missing man and wanted
Instructions as to what to do with them.
Tue message aid not get here in time
TO send a coffin there for the remaius
TO be brought here, so the judge wlreo
back TO bury the boiy at the county 3
expense.
Inc details Of the Doctors actions
prior to his death are very meager.
All tina: could be lesraed was from
Ussser ger conduct jr OF the @. b. who
rold the HERALD reporter that DR..
Bulmer came 10 one of III conductors
and asked him to give him a free i'd,
TO San E izsrio, and the conductor told
1im that be couldn't do it. as it wa
ag inst the rules to'carry any body free;
and this refusal seemed tn dis re>s the
Goctor very much. A mum Der there al
the eating house immt d ately made up
purse to buy the ticket for the ole
man, but he would not accept the
money, and said afterwards that h.
wou d wa K over into Mex CO.
Before he started out on this walk.
however, he gave away everything he
1sd, supposedly, md startsd out. l
was noticed that be LAD neither water
nor anything to est when he left the
alton. and some thought maybe be
was going out for short walk, but
others feared that he had some inten-
lion of doing away with himself.
for be had tod one or two ditferen'
things which led them to be-
ieve that be would commit suicide.
Before he left the house be gave about
-verything he had to one person or sn-
Othsr and upon giving his valise TO
vomau be told her that he wanted he r
To keep the vslise as IL contained al
MS papers and might come into u.s.
ometime soon for purposes of identi
ticstlon.
When his body was found yesterday
{ Was in a very decom posed state. Il,
mas ed himself by cut ing his throat
with razor, the only thing which he
nad kept.
Undertaken J. c. Ross OF this city
old reporter of the HERALD that OF
the 8 b day OF last month he had re
eivt d a letter from the doctor, asking
ne undertaken TO take care of bis re-
mains should he die suddenly, although
le disclaimed any intention IF commit
,ng suicide. In the letter be said that
he was 33d degree mason and as re-
~ Cutto AAC bllC Vi SOllGCtOI
B Iuche Of JuRreZ and Jesus Med IA of
Mexico City, who knew him as being
D.! the fraternity.
M. Ross said that he had wired
Mexico City for instructions as to
he disposition of the remaios OF the
Ioctor, but a s yet has received no an
swer. The doctors professional card
) an investing one, IL reads,
Z. S. Bulmer, M. D., c. NJ, L. S. A
NJ -
United States, Great Britain, Canada,
md Australia. Formerly SuDerinten-
dent of Quarantine of New Zealand and
Australia. Honorary correspondent of
Smithsonian Institute of Washington,
d. G. Member OF Roise society, Angl +,
and various societies of Egypt, Mexico
and Great Britain. Office and resi-
deuce, San Eliz srio, Texas.
The doctor was q well known writer
and he has added many specimens to
The collections in the Smithsonian
Institute. His writings concerning
the early inhabitants of this section
II the country are standard. Perhaps
his best known contribution to know
ledge is the dictionary OF certslu |
elemental Indian tongues, made after |
long residence among certain tribes of |
Mexican Indians.
Visitors 10 Casas Grandes, at the
terminus of the Sierra Madre railroad |
will easily recall DR.. Bulmer as the |
short, stOcky, nervous, unsteady little |
man, who seemed 10 be ready to meet |
every visitor ana pour into his ears,
however unwilling, resume of |
ali 'he knew. 1t Ia true, the |
doctor was a great bore, particular if |
one was n hurry, hut 10 was mono the |
less interesting at times to st down |
u L. L. - L
on, telling of his early life. his !
many and varied experiences, |
and of what he had accomplished |
for science. The first impression |
one would gain was that the man was |
not sincere, but after number OF !!
these encounters it became clear that .
he doctor had once been ell, or nearly