New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-28
ROPE ENDS LONELY LIFE
NJ. Fuchs, a Suicide, Found Hang
ing Frozen in Shed.
Expected Money by Christmas But
It Did Not Come.
Was Forlorn Figure, .Batching'
in South End Of City.

Was FOrlOrn Figure, Batchlng
in South End Of City.
| Hanging with his neck in the moose
of a rope, his body frozen stiff, the
remains of Michial Fuchs, aged 81
years, were found Monday noon BY
Sheriff w. ). Julius and Chief 81
| Police Adolf Klause in a little shed
back of the house on German street
between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets
where he lived a lonely life all by
| himself. Life had been extinct for a
long time, just how long it was not
| possible to tell.
unless it is that the old man grew de-
I spondent because money he was ex-
pecting failed to arrive and resolved
/ to end his life. His sontis dead, but
he had lent him between $3.50 and
$3.50 and this was still owing to him.
His aughter-in-law, Mrs. John Wild,
lives on a farm near Evan and he had
placed his claim against her in the
hands of an attorney for collection.
CHRISTMAS MONEY DID NOT COME.
This money, it is said, he was ex-
pecting about Christmas time, but the
money was not paid and it is known
that he grieved and worried over this.
No letter or note was left to throw any
light upon his feelings before the
tragedy.
Fuchs may have been hanging
dead for a week and it may have been
only over night and part of Monday.
One Of the Heese boys, a neighbor,
passed the house Sunday night and
says he is sure he saw a light on the
inside. If that is the case Fuchs
probably killed himself Christmas
night.
The old man had not been noticed
since a week ago when he was seen by
a neighbor, Mrs. William Bartl.
Friday neighbor, Andrew Hilberger,
was at the postofice and asked for the
old mans mail. There was letter
from the uperintendent of the asylum
for the insane at st. Peter, where his
wife is confined, and with this he went
to Fuchs home but finding the place
empty and everything deserted, went
away.
FRIGHTENED AT HIS ABSENCE.
1t has been the old mans custom to
take his Christmas dinner with his
cousin, Mrs. Franz Hogan, and Sun
day she went down to the place to tell
him that he was expected this year as
usual. The house was empty and the
place looked deserted, but she tried
the door and found it unlocked. Go
ing in she looked around in the kitchen
and into the next room, and then a
feeling of terror came over her and
she ran for the nearest neighbor, An
drew Hilberger.
Something was wrong, she said she
/ felt sure, and she wanted someone to
l.
come with her and search the premises.
The two went back together and look
ed all over the rooms, in the bed,
everywhere, but no trace of the miss
/ ing man could be found.
| Not until thenextday, Monday fore
noon, did they report 70 the police.
Then Chief Klause and Sheriff Julius
/ Immediately hired a rig and drove out
to the residence. After searching the
4 house they went around to the little
+ shed in the rear, a small structure
+ perhaps four feet square, where .
supply of wood and kindling was kept
! and finding the door fastened wrenchee
i it loose.
GRIMACE FROZEN ON FACE.
There Fuchs hung, dangling from {
rope fastened to a beam laid across
the shed about six feet from the ground
/ He was kneeling and the horribl,
death grimace of a choking man wa
frozen on the face turned toward th,
] officers.
/ Not wishing to touch the body unit
4 it had been viewed by the coroner, tn
two men retraced their steps and tn
chief of police waited at the nous
while the sheriff drove in after tn
coroner. Coroner =. A. Fritsehe de