The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-07-31


the arrival of little miss at the
Hugh L. Lewis home.
c. r. Laingen and wife Of Cotton
wood. Mimi. visited at Oscar Han
sens Sunday,
From Wednesdays Daily.
Choosing quick death by drown
ing to lingering in a hospital until
death should come. Rev. @. w. Lutz,
district superintendent OF the Winona
district OF the Methodist church,
former. house chaplain and pastor OF
the Clinton Avenue Methodist church,
st. Paul. up to last October. threw
himself from a disused street car
bridge at Lake winona, Mimi, dur
ing the night and was drowned In the
lake. The body was discovered Tues
day at 5:15 a. m and the family.
living at Stockton. Mimi, nine miles
from Winona, was informed of the
death by DIR. Hugh McGaughey, Rev.
Mr.. Lutz's physician, and Dr. s.. A.
Cook, pastor of Central Methodist
church, Winona.
Was Warmed of Death.
| Rev. Mr, Lutz was suffering from
diabetes during the past six months
and physicians had warned him that
he had not long to i've In note left
for his wife. the minister gave the
reasons for his act
II consulted a physician" wrote
4 N. 80. go bout nanxratt.,, H.. -.
he told me l was suffering from a
fatal malady, diabetes. He held out
no hope.
THE shock of this information com.
pletely unneryed me, and for six
weeks have scarcely closed my
eyes in sleep. Happiness has been
turned into the gloom OF night and
hope into despair. -
Il never dreamed of such an end.
ing to my life. Ns"-
Tried 10 Make Fight.
81 have tried with all my might to be
brave and to make fight for my
life, for wanted, oh! so much, to
live and carry out the important
work the church has honored me
with, and to live for the sake of
my family.
but now IL is either death or a
lingering illness in a hospital. wish
DIR. Cook to break the news to my
family"
i Monday evening Mr.. Lutz spent In
consultation with his physician, DIR.
s. A: Cook, at winona. He left the
doctors home at 8 p. m. That was
the last time he was seen alive.
IL Is believed that he wandered
around several hours between winona
and the point on Lake winona, where
he leaped from the bridge.
! Sees His Clothing.
Charles Kleist, a fisherman. Tues
day noticed hat and coat on the
old bridge that had been once used
| by the street railway. The bridge is
about ten feet above the water level.
Kleist made search in the water
and found the body standing upright
In the deep water not far from the
bridge. Acting Coroner w. ". Lind
say was summoned, and after an
examination OF the body he gave II
as his opinion that the minister mad
only been dead few hours, so that
some time must have elapsed between
Rev. Mr.. Lutz's consultation with his
physician In search of a ray of hope
and the moment when, throwing on
his coat and hat. he sprang into III ,
water.
/ He leaves a wife, two sons and
two daughters, Roland, George. limo.
gene and Gail.
From 1910 until October /. 1919
Mr.. Lutz was pastor of Clinton Ave
nue. Methodist church. st. Paul. He
was chaplain OF the house of repre.
sentatives during the 1913 session OF
the legislature.
Services From Automobiles.
a feature. of his work during his
81. Paul pastorate was his series of
services throughout the city held
from automobiles in which he tried
iast summer TO take the church IN
people who did not attend church.
He obtained two automobiles. in
one OF which was made a temporary
pulpit. The services were usually
held on Sunday afternoons. In the
second automobile was the church
cnoir. including his own children.
MRS. Lutz generally accompanied her
husband and assisted him In making
addresses and she also helped the
choir with the mus;c for ,ha ,,,,,,,.'s,