Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-08
FOR The SPOTLIGHT
Some Of the Latest Ways Of Attract.
ing Public Attention.
HEROES OF MORBID MINDS
People without Asylum Privileged
Make Extraordinary Attempts
to DO Something New
and Novel.

and Novel.
When Herman Lindeman, the foreman
Of a Chicago printing establishment, and
Miss Ella Ulster, to whom he was engaged
to be married, quietly slipped away from
Chicago a few days ago, they apparently
had all their plans laid to create q sensa.
ton. They had conflded to a few of their
closest friends before leaving that they
we're going TO Elkhart, Ind, to be mar
ried. They didn't want a church wedding,
they said. They preferred something more
romantic, a quiet wedding, but with all
the trimmings of an elopement.
So they eloped. but instead Of going to
Elkhart they went to st. Joseph. Mich.
where an obliging justice Of the peace
made them man and wife. Early the next
morning they alighted from the train at
South BEND, Ind, went direct to the no.
tel where they had engaged a room ahead
by telegraph, took breakfast, walked
down to the st. Joseph river and appar,
emily committed suicide In a most DELHI
crate and novel manner.
First they engaged a small rowboat at
a wharf on the river bank where pleasure
boats are kept for hire. Lindeman stepped
in, CALAMITY helped his wife aboard, took
the oars and headed for the dam near
Island park, a pleasure resort a mile or so
below town.
As the small boat neared the dam men
and women on the island and on the river
banks were alarmed to see Lindeman cast
aside the oars and stand up, allowing the
curret TO sweep the boat onward to de-
struction. His wife stood up, too, and
Lindeman put his arm around her to sup
port her. Both seemed needless OF the
warnings that were being shouted at them
to row for their lives. Instead of making
any effort to save himself or his wife
Lindeman coolly lighted a cigarette and
waved 1t at the panic-stricken people on
lIe river bank. As for his wife she rested
her head on his shoulder and waited for
the end.
A few moments later the rowboat
reached the brink Of the dam. The young
couple were laughing and talking. Then
the boat went down over the edge and
was found some time afterward over
turned and slowly floating down stream.
The bodies of Lindeman and his wife were
not recovered until late that night.
II Mr.. and Mrs. Lindeman went to
South Bend with the deliberate intention
Of committing suicide together, and there
is every evidence that they did, they GER
ldlilly StltNltu d HONtl anu most tragic
way In which to take their own lives.
Mantle of Mystery Fails.
But more remarkable still was the way
In which Douglas Sherrin Firth Panton. a
London solicitor ended his life at a lonely
spot on the rocky coast OF Cornwall a
few weeks earlier. His dead body man
acled hand and foot and dressed in wom-
ans attire was found on the rocks at
the foot OF the cliffs at Mousehole, a vii
lage close to Penzance and not far from
the spot where John Davidson, the poet.
recently disappeared under most mysteri-
our circumstances.
Douglas Panton was 35 years of age
and a grandson of w. P. Firth. the
famous artist. On the day previous to the
finding Of his body Panton arrived at
Penzanoe by train from London, and reg
istered at the Queens hotel as ID. Plat
ten, London His luggage consisted Of a
brown leather suit case which he guarded
carefully and insisted on carrying to his
room.
That evening he went out for a walk,
taking a big paper bundle with him. Later
he was seen walking along the cliff near
Mousehole, a picturesque fishing hamlet
about three miles from P~enzance. lie still
had his paper bundle with him. This
was the last time he was seen alive. He
did not return to his hotel that night.
on the following evening a boy wander
Ing along the cliff spied what appeared ia
be a woman's body, fully dressed, lying
among the rocks close TO the water. When
the police and the coast guard reached the
place they made an extra ordinary dis
covery. There were handouts fastened to
y H. xr~g@N. nwa a-l1.. - 49, .-.. ~
add to their amazement, the woman had
; close cropped hair and a beard. The body
was later identified by Philip N. Panton
OF London. as that of his brother Douglas
Scattered along the top OF the cliff near
=. where the body was found the police picked
, up a pair of trousers, one shoe, a walking
: stick, a bracelet set with paste diamonds
a waistcoat, a linen shirt, a pair of cuff
< links and a collar and tie. These had evil
4 IDENTIFY been discarded by Panton in favor
. of the other clothes in which the body was
9 found. These comprised n brown jacket
with black braid round the bottom, a crepe
S de chine petticoat edged with lace, a blue
t motor veil, a cashmere blouse, black stock.
: tngs, e~orsets, underllnen and a pair Of
lady's ~high-heeled shoes.
h II is supposed by the police who investl
9 gated this remarkable case that Pantor
changed his clothing at the top Of the
> cliff, adjusted the handouts TO his ankle,
and wrists and then either Jumped OF
fell to his death. The fall killed him
Death was not due to drowning, although
the body had been submerged at high It'd,
n in the night. The body had been pre-
y vented from being washed out to sea by
Y protecting rock behind which It haC
- lodged.
Panton was a rising young barrister
It single and fairly we'll 20 do. He had no
e been considered eccentric, and no reason
why he should want TO take his life hai
e yet been discovered. But that he did TAX,
d II there appears TO be no doubt. and wher
he committed suicide he sought, like Mr.
and Mrs. Lindeman, a new way IN whlcl
to do It.
Sand Lunches.
But the craze TO do something now 4
70 not confined TO those OF a morbid turn o
mind. Imagine a man eating twelve spoon
fuls OF sand. partly because he likes SAINT
and partly to win a wager Of s.. J. NJ. Hub
n bard, an architect Of St Joseph, Mo, ma
a theory that ordinary building sand, eater
in small doses, has a very beneficial effee