Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Killed His
Eami!y-AfterH He
Was Dead
w IHEN Hans Muller. the famed miser Of Munich.
w died recently. everybody celebrated particularly
w his family No shed, crocodile

\X/ died recently everybody celebrated partcuarly
w his family. No tears shed crocodile or
otherwise That his wife and children rejoiced,
ashamed his passing not surprising considering that
a old who spent all his spare time when
wasn't boarding money. hating people and thinking
further trouble for his despsed neighbors
who felt the way about him.
Whatever caused Muller cabinet-maker by trade TO
against family and fellow mystery but
did through his misery ways making him
self the most hated Munich. With his death every
who knew him thought they had heard the last OF
Muller but this vinegary old managed to kill his own
family surprisingly enough AS hours after going to his
reward
Muller timed his plot so that death struck at the
instant that survivors the happest-whch hap
pened they got the good that old Hans
had will that consequently his entire for
tune which he had amassed the and at the
pense of his longsuferng family would become theirs
under German inheritance laws Everybody in Munich
had known for years how he forced his family to with
proper clothing and food just he could add
coins to his pile Of money.
Well-meanng people. who tried to reason with HIM in
help destitute family got hard crack
the head with his heavy walking stick reward
for their interference Little wonder then that there
general rejoicing throughout the city when word got
the Munich at last
Although he made will. Muller had left note in
his asking that funeral services for him
be held in the topmost of his house That seemed
to be reasonable enough the family carried out his
last request.
on the day of funeral relatives Munich
gathered at the Muller house None to mourn. but
many attended just to goat his coffin while others
who had the hated Hans presented them
curiostyn order to look at the stled body
Of the who could hold much hate for and all
of his fellow
The parlor of the little house appear
wedding celebration than a funeral Everybody
eating and drinking toasng the passing Of old Hans
and remaripg what great day this for the Muller
famiyfor free of their shackes they could begin
to live like normal human beings.
At the appointed hour for the services everyone who
could do made his her way up to the third floor
bedroom where Hans had requested that his body should
rest by the family relatives and then friends
of the family filed into the little room, which was soon
damned to capacity. The last to enter the minister
who closed the door and worked his way through the
small crowd up to the casket.
had the Man of God reached the coffin and
opened his Bible, than q loud crack of spinterng wood
was heard. a second swayed though the
house being shaken by earthquake Then, with
crash and the floor gave sending everybody,
coffin and all, plungng below.
the heavy and the falling bodies hit the
floor that gave away too Those friends who had
stay little paror the first floor because of the
lack of room upstairs were suddenly buried screaming
under the twisted beams and plaster Of the colapsng
floors.
Police and firemen rushed scene, pulled the
bodies from the wreckage Many dead including
all the immediate the Muller family who had
so recently celebrating Others injured many
seriously At first, it looked the whole matter was
an accdentbut the building inspectors looked for
cause they found It, Old Hans had through all
the beams under the tiny bedroom and also had weakened
the supports directly under the second floor.
Years before with his knowledge Of cabinet-making.
ne apparently the beams such way that they
would support ordinary weights all right but not
cessive He evidently had plotted that when his
time would deprive his family of his wealth by
killing them this spectacular way.
of the cash boxes, directing that the
funeral be held in the weakened room yellowed
police believed hateful had worked out his
little deathtrap all of 10 years before.
Slfully, Muller had also cut the floor in such way
that his coffin would be the last to drop That was
that anybody who might have escaped injury in the
would be TO get hurt plenty when his heavy
casket came crashing down
That Hans Muller was insane there little doubt for
normal mind could have thought up such a devish
plot or worked it out in such diabolical manner