Dionisyus Muller |
| Posted 2018-05-28 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Weekly Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Wednesday, August 19, 1914, page 3, column 3 Despondent Old Man Kills Himself (From Friday's Daily) Driven to despondency by old age, coupled with his suffering from cancer of the mouth, Dionisyus Muller, eighty years old, shot and killed himself sometime between Wednesday noon and yesterday morning. His dead body was found early yesterday morning be an attache of the Sam Dreyer store in the rear of that establishment. The employe was removing some refuse to the barrel in to the rear of the store when he stumbled across the corpse, lying face downward. In one hand was clasped an antiquated revolver containing but five chambers. The fire-arm was clasped in his right hand while a pool of blood was gathered at the spot where his head lay. The old man had sent a bullet through his lower jaw and with deliberateness had placed thr muzzle against his left eye, the second shot resulting in instantaneous death. But two chambers of the revolver were discharged. Coroner Charles H. McLane was notified and he conducted an inquest together with a jury which investigated his room in the Brinkmeyer hotel, and learned that the revolver had been purchased at Bishop's second hand store on Tuesday. In the dead man's room was found the cover of a paper shoe box and in a scrawl was written: 'This will be the last nite i will be with you i am growin wors every day and i am tired of it and so i will mak an end of it. Their is no restivel (rest) any mor for me, so good by to all of you i should have staid for the soldiers home. so good by, Dionisyus. my hed is so sore i can't stand it any longer.' The deceased had been a resident of Yavapai county for over forty- five years, and he was naturalized in Prescott in 1874. He arrived in the United States from Germany before the civil war, locating with his parents in Missouri, and thence moved to Colorado, where he enlisted in a cavalry regiment serving continuously until 1865. Muller was a man of good citizenship, and was among the first to locate on Big Bug creek and follow plancer mining and later farming and stock raising. After the death of his wife ill health followed and during the past fifteen years his mental faculties were shattered. Only last week he complained of the hard struggle at his advanced age, and informed several friends that he would destroy himself. His only surviving relative known in this country is a married daughter residing in Los Angeles. It was she who prevailed upon him to enter the soldiers home at Sawtelle, where he remained for only a few months. Muller confided to close friends that during the civil war he had shot and killed a young woman of a Confederate family by accident, while he was on picket duty, and the memory of that sad deed haunted him by day and night. It was this unfortunate act, his friends say, that caused him to take his own life so many years afterward, and which also led to his demented condition. Transcribers note: Mr. Muller is buried in the Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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