The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-11
DESPONDENT OVER LOSSES FORMER ALDERMAN HEBERNIEHL
 DIES ON COMRADES GRAVE Shoyes Neck of Acid Bottle Far Down His Throat and Swal= lows Contents Without Burning Lips.
Was Involved in Financial Diffi= culties by Failure of Otto Olson Who AbscOnded Tuesday.

In fit of despondency, following g financial reverses. Philip Hebermehl, of 24 Sherman street, aged about 40, former Republican alderman of the 11th district, ended his life in the burial lot of his wifes sisters fam fly. in Park cemetery, at o'clock, this morning, draining the entire con tents of a two ounce bottle of car boIlc acid without leaving so much as the smallest burn outside his lips.
 Hebernaehl was one of the numer- End builder, who disappeared Tues day. Olsen had transferred to Heb- crmehl Brothers. timers and plumb CTS. through a warranty deed, prop erty In Sixth street to cover his in debtedness of about $1,S00 to the firm. When City Sheriff Cohen, yes $1.60O, to cover the Frank Miller Lumber Co.'S claim for S1,40O.71. Hebermehl protested that the prop erty attached. in Fifth and Sixth streets, had been turned over to him, and that the attachment would not prove valid. Yet Cohen served the
 This morning, Hebermeh1 did not appear at his office, 219 Fifth street, as was his custom. yet no alarm was felt until Inquiries were made of his brother and business associate, George HebernlehI. of 140 Adams street, by Rourl<e & Rourke.
 
 later, by George, who gave way to extreme grief at sight of the remains of his dead brother.
 HeberInehl rode his bicycle to the entrance of Park cemetery, where the wheel was later found. About g o'clock Superintendent Charles Gil- Iette, of the cemetery saw a man Writhing on the burial plot of Chris tian Bitzer, where are buried the re- mains of MT. Bitzer and five children Bitzer was for many years the pro prietor of a cafe at Hamilton and Pembroke streets.
 Gillette hurried to the assistance of the man, and, from his actions be- Aeved him to be suffering with a fit. He called Henry Praul, a helper, and later Frank, Call, another assistant, and the three gave such help to the man as they thought would bring him out of his supposed fit. When he did not respond to treatment Gil phoned for the ambulance corps. Be fore the arrival of the auto-ambu- lance. the man was dead.
 Dr.. KrauSe comm unicated the news of the mans death to Medical Ex- amIner Downs, from the cemetery, and the latter ordered the removal of the body to the city norgue. It cllanced that none of the attaches of the norgue, nor the ambulance corps, knew Hebermehl. although he was unusually well known. and when pa pers bearing his name, including a deed from Otto Olsen to him, were found in his pockets. it was believed whose disappearance was related in the Farmer of yesterday
 Not until later did Henry Praul find the tell tale poison bottle in the Bitzer plot. Even after the body had been placed in Rourke & Rourke's morgue the cause of death was not known. DrX Krause found the man dead. and hastening to return to the emergency hospital, believed, from a from heart trouble. When the bottle was found, an examination of the victims throat disclosed the burns caused by the powerful corrosive, but the attaches of the morgue de- clare it to be the most unusual case of death by carbolic acid poisoning that has come to their attention. Hebermehl must have placed the neck of the bottle far into his mouth end drained the entire contents a1- most at 8 gulp, for there was not the slightest vestige of 8 burn about his