The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-06-07 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BOO. He employed 30 men, who were so fond of him on account of his honesty and uprightness that they worked for him although they had not received any wages for some time. During the last few days he had tried to get the money together to pay his men, but in vain. He and his wife then decided.to take their own lives and the lives of their children, as they would not leave the latter to an uncertain future. Seiger's brother lived in a room separated from those of the family by two dark .closets. The two eldest sons, aged 16 and 13 respectively, generally slept with their uncle. When he came home late on Friday evening, he was astonished to find the boys still up, but his sister-in-law said, "Go to bed; Rudolf and Bruno are sleepkng with us to-night" Although this unusual arrangement rather surprised him, still he went to bed and was soon sleeping. On Saturday morning at 6 o'clock he left his room and saw his nephew Martin, aged 'lO, lying on his bed dressed, but a corpse. In the second room lay the little Elizabeth, undressed and dead. Bruno lay in the next room, dead on the sofa. In the second front room he found the dead bodies of the three other members of the family— the son Rudolf at the door leading into the corridor, his mother on the sofa with a cord round her neck, and her husband hanging to the door-post. The latter still shewed signs of life, but he died soon after without regaining consciousness. On the corpses being examined it was seen that the three youngest children had been strangled partly with a cord and partly with the hands of the murderer, till they lost consciousness. They were then evidently poisoned. The eldest son seems to have struggled violently with his parents, for he has not only marks of strangulation on his neck, but the vein,' of Ins left hand had been severed with a kitchen knife, and the furniture was in disorder. The poison administered seems to have been prussic acid. On a table stood two milk jugs and two wine glasses containing poison, and the cords used in strangling the children were on the Boor.  The head Of the Painters' Guild received on &ann. day morning a letter from Seiger containing the following words: "Many losses which I have suffered have ruined me. After struggling for years, I have finished. If the Guild grants suicides a simple funaral, then I beg for one. If it is possible still think well of me. I send the best greetings to you and all who sympathise with me. Farewell.—Seiger." A few hoes addressed to his workmen, to whom he owed money, were as follows: "I beg you to forgive me for what I have done, but could not get On without cheating as I have been cheated." It appears that Seiger first murdered his family, and only then wrote and posted the letters. From the letter-box he returned home and coinnutted suicide. The boor man's misfortunes bad evidently driven him mad, for he was always a most affectionate father and husband.  Four married couples have applied for the historic Dunrnow flitch of bacon; they hail respectively • from Landon, Dublin, Leominster, and Hereford The Flitch Committee is making extensive tion for carrying out the ancient festivror:; elaborate scale. Early. on Monday morning a flour mill near Uttoxeter, owned by Messrs. Vernon and Sons, corn merchants, of Liverpool and Uttoxeter, was totally destroyed by fire, together with several h bags of corn. The damage is estimated at £5,000. 'The outbreak, which is attributed to the explosion of a paraffin lamp., was not discovered till all hope of saving the building was vain. The mill was a very old structure, but was fitted with valuable modern machinery. A Scotch goiter had been skying his balls, much to the caddie's disgust. Carefully teeing the ball onoe more, the caddie handed the driver to the gentleman with the remark "Noo, sir, keg see a guid shot, and nae mair o' yer glory Hallelujahs!" "Well, goad-bye, old fellow!" said an obscure murderer some years ago to a friend whom he had encountered casually 111 the street shortly after perpetrating the deed which brought him to the gallows. "Next time you set' me it will be in • wax-works."