The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1878-09-21 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

NOBILING'S DEATH.  ..B‘lll tacit 7e4w#3,,leiee, AFkuigt..  Th Berlin Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes:—  "Dr. Nobiling's death is fraught with serious disappointment to the superior police authorities of Prussia, who had been led to hope that he might be sufficiently restored to health by the care of the eminent physicians entrusted with his case to become an agent in the hands of justice for averting crimes of a character similar to that which he himself had committed. The already astonishing result of his exceptionally vigorous constitution, and of the skilful treatment accorded to him—namely, that a man with a perforEtted skull, and a brain one half of which had been pierced through and through by a large conical bullet, should live for three months after the infliction of those injuries, and even gain strength and appetite to such an extent that he was able to walk about in a garden and eat three meals daily—had almost justified the official expectation that, one of these days, Carl Nobiling, his wounds healed and his intellect delivered from the cloud in which it was for some weeks ensuing his attempt to commit suicide, would be induced to repent the dark deed which all but plunged the German nation into mourning, and to make what amends he could for his grievous sin by demouncing his accomplices and throwing some light upon the secrets of the formidable organization to which he belonged, and of which he is believed to have been an exceptionally trusted, intelligent and influential member. To this expectation. in which the general public shared with the utmost intensity of interest, Dr. Nobiling's sudden and unexpr cted relapse on the 9th inst., and decease on the following afternoon, has put an end for ever. At the instance of his medical attendants, the police officials had entirely ab:tained, even during the Period of his apparent convalescence, from subjecting- him to any interrcget ry u ith respect to the circumstances lead. jug up to nis attempt on the Emperor's life, as it Wast 3 feared that the least mental irritation, or even excitemot, might defeat all the elate made by outgun to  achieve his cure; and ea he has careied his terrible secret with him to the grave, and the veil of mystery hanging over his surpassing crime has not yet been lifted for a single moment. On the 6th inst. Dr. I* win, the prison dootor, who had had charge of Nobiling's case from the day of his arrest, conversed freely with him upon topics of the day, and was surprised at the relevancy of his ohs, rvations, which pointed to a marked improvement in the functioning of his brain; but he complained of intermittent headache and pressure at the back of his eyes, and these symptcms cot tinued to present themselves until the morning of the 9th, when he was seized with a violent fit of vomiting, and shortly afterwards became unconscious. He never spoke again. On the lOth—it being obvious that his end was drawing nieh—his mother was admitted to his bedside, but her presence failed to rouse him from the state of coma in which he lay : and she had baldly quitted him when he breathed his last. A post-mortem was held upon his bady next day by Drs. Wolff, Lesser, and Lewin, in the presence of - several eminent surgeons and legal officials of the Crown. The surgical report upon his injuries states that a projectile had penetratel the right side of his forehead, had been split in two by the violence of its contact with the us frontis, and the larger moiety thereof, piercing both the front divisions of the brain, had lodged in the left division, lacking force to perforate a second time the skull. A cavity was found in the brain, from which discharge had been taking place for a long time past. Death was immediately caused by a newly set-up inflammation in the skin of the brain (Flirnhaut)." . . . .