The evening world., 1912-12-12
PLAY 'NEARERMY
+! GOD TOTHEE' AS
THEY END LIVES
Mother and Son Start Phono-
graph and Turn On Gas
to Kill Selves.
PETS DIE WITH THEM.
Woman, Sixty, Separated
From Husband; Man, Forty,
Was Out of Work.
PETS DIE WITH THEM.

nrs. Marie UhDen. sixty year, old.
end hee con. william U1txcn jr.. forty.
fed the spaniel. gave tho canary fresh
essd and water, started tho phonosrr ph
paaying Nearer. My God. to Thee" In
their apartment At No. sH Fifty-fourth
street. Bay Ridg1 last night and lay
down and ended their lives by inha.lns
-.
Mns. Emma Carl. her curiosity reused
BY the cen Of . neiGhbU. p. O. IIen.ng.
end his questions regarding ;he
Uksens, discovered tho two dead at
. o'clook last night. The spaniel lay
dead ~ the feet Of Mrs. Ultzen and tho
oanary was lifeless on tho floor of It's
AAss. Tho phonoxraph had run down.
Mn. Can wac reminded by Hening's
questions that she had not scsn the
U3tssns al day.
Mr.. Carl had bean greatly interested
= TIE UltIens' troubles. The aged
woman was separated from her huS-
hand and the son had beon out OF
work for two years. lie was book
keeper. but his age and inability to keep
ahrsAst IN the march Of progress In his
tine had stranded him.
''rn Just 70 up and inquire IL they
want any thing: you know they haven't
any too much" suggested Iiening.
mo. they might resent It, cautioned
Mrs. Carl. Anyway. I'm beginning to
feel very queer about the whole thing.
! have q plan for you. Go down into
the cellar and SEQ II the gas meter IL
working. They had 4 meter put In
for their rooms last Saturday. They
wanted to know II cared to have q
told them that I couldn't afford any
thing more expensive than oil. They
laughed and said they guessed they
could spare a few extra cents"
METER WORKING BUT NO LIGHT
WAS BURNING.
Hening went to the cellar. The meter
vas working at q remarkable rate. Hen
tnS told Mrs. Ca.l ana they went to the
sidewalk and looked up at tho Utica
Window. No light showed.
Policemen wer. asked 80 hurry to the
house. Simultaneous with their arrival
Was that OF Miss Minnie Maurer OF No.
3s2 Rodney street. williamsburg ON
greeting Mrs. Carl Miss Maurer shove ed
this letter from Mrs Uitzen. which she
i,ad received a short time before:
Dear Minnie: ! write to bid you good
By. for VIII and ] are going on "a long
Journey and We will probably not see you
for n long. long time MARIE"
Tho doors to the Ultzen rooms. from
which gas poured IN over hcl!n.ng
volume. were forced. Mother ana son
were dead.
The son lay fully dressed on his bed
In the front room. lie had prepared
carefully for his death A tube from the
Jet was held securely TO his mouth by
his belt. which was bucklod around his
neck. the tube running beneath
Tho mother. In her bedroom adJoinlnc
~ kitchen. was entirely beneath the
covers save her head. Her cloth belt
vas tied around her right wrist. and a
tube ran from Set through this TO her
mouth. her hand resting on her chin.
oes came from four other Jets from
tAich the tips had been removed.
IN the doorway between tho kitchen
aSd Afs. Ultzen's bedroom stood pho
nograph. The record on It was Nearer
NJ God. TO Thee" II had played to
the end OF tho cylinder.
On Mrs. ultYen's bed. coiled at her
feet was her dead water spaniel. Or
the Kitchen sink. In ita cage, which has
beeu taken from tho ceiling spring, wa.
. dead canary.
Mrs. Ultsen was the wife OF an arch!.
tsct They had lived happily TO a Yea,
$50 at No. sp Herkimer street. Brook
Ign. Then they ausrrellsd and wen
separate ways. the father 10 anothei
house and mother and son to the fran,
Rouse IN Bay Ridge. She was not happ,