St. Louis County MN Archives News.....Ulbrech, Nathan A Deliberate Suicide April 7, 1876
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Duluth Weekly Tribune April 7, 1876

       A DELIBERATE SUICIDE
Nathan Ulbrick Shoots Himself
   Mental Derangement the Cause
  Upon the heels of the sad end of Wm.
Goetling, comes the deliberate suicide
of another most worthy German, caused
by a partial mental derangement.
   Nathan Ulbrich, a native of German
Bohemia, was last Monday, the 3d inst.,
at 11 o'clock found dead, by his neighbor,
Mr. Schroeder, with a pistol beside him,
and with the following message (in German)
left on the table:
   "I am tired of life. I do not want to
live among this bad people any longer. The
ball which I give myself, by right, belongs
to my neighbors, but I do not want to die 
as a criminal, so I die for my enemies,"
   Another message was afterwards found
among his papers in a trunk, but bearing
no date, as follows:
   "Mr. Geo Berkelmann:
           "Pray let two masss be read at
the Catholic church, for my deceased 
parents and pay with my money.   
                  NATHAN ULBRICH."
   This victim of his own hand was a 
single man of about 45 years of age, 
extremely temperate and close in his habits,
but a man of some information and culture, 
and withall of refined taste, made evident
by everything around him. His very last
thoughts seemed to have been on the neatness
and decorum necessary for so solemn an event
as the taking of one's own life, for he was
found dressed with unusual care, and had,
even after he must have inflicted upon 
himself the mortal wound actually laid himself
out in the most proper position possible for
the entertainment of his invited and welcome
guest, Death.
   He leaves a house and two lots on Piedmont
avenue near the residence of Mr. Munger, which,
according to his will to be sold at public 
sale, and the proceeds to got to the widows
and orphans of Duluth. Besides this, he leaves
a check on the First National Bank of Minneapolis,
for $373, and a certificate of deposit on the
First National Bank of Duluth, for $100, out of
which to pay his funeral expenses, and the 
balance to be equally divided between the
Catholic and Protestant Orphan Asylums in St.
Paul. Said funeral expenses are by verbal
request to Mr. Shroeder, before his death,
to be as little as possible, and with a further
request to Mr. Berkelmann, his chosen executor,
that no priest or minister need attend at his
funeral services.
   Mr. Geo. Berkelmann, from whom we get these
facts, was some time ago, unbeknown to him,
chosen Mr. Ulbrich's sole executor, and when
informed of the fact, called upon him. He was
then of conversable turn of mind, and all that
Mr. B. found strange in his conversation was,
that he thought he should die soon. Mr. B. 
invited him to take some books out of his 
library to read.
   Mr. Ulbrich living alone, it was it seems,
and understanding between him and Mr. Shroeder,
his neighbor, that a white flag hung out at a
certain window, should be a signal that some
thing was wanted.
   At 8 o'clock on the morning of the fatal
day, Mr. Shroeder's son was in his house, 
when everything was as usual. At 11 o'clock the
signal was seen and Nathan Ulbrich found dead.
   Mr. Geo. Berkelmann wishes, in justice to
his (Ulbrich's) neighbors, to say, that the 
supposed terrible enmity of his neighbors is
entirely due to his own mental illusions (not
necessary to be particularized here) as this
was the one point upon which his mind seemed
to be unhinged.

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