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CUT HISTOMoritz Hupers Takes His Life WhileInsane.Asked His Wife to Pray For Him as He Said Farewell,IrTVra-RMORTS, :Oec. IS.—At 10:45 yesterday morning the cries o£ a woman ware heard by the cro^c around -rhe depot and at once a rush wsa made for the* Farmers' Exchange, on ’Ore opposite si\le of the street, where, m the rear, a stable, wcs found ill:e almost MfcVess body oC Morilz 'Hu-pers with ‘his “throat cut from ear 'to lt;?ar. ‘Mr, Hupers was hnmodiaiCly carried to his room in 'the •ho't’eft, where h-c d'icd in a few minxes, The deceased lias been -ill for two or three yeans and a few months ago sold bis hotel property to Max Berlin and retired from , business tnitl Ixrgrin tire erection of a fine: tlwcMLng on M Street. The stormy1 ■weather rdLarded work on 'the huLaing and tlria with bis illness so preyed on-hi a mind as to render 'him temporarily insane. Sunday morning his wlif-0 went to church and -before leaving Mr. Hupers bade her good bye 'and asked her to pray for Him. Shortly ater her departure, he entered the kitchen, took a sftianp bread-knife, won't '.to I'he cow stab In, laid down on rhe hay and? cut Ms throat, Mi* (laughter, Miss Amelia, having occasion t“0 go to the stable discovered her father tvrluh^ng In the agon-ies of death and her cries were iwha!: mitracted, fjhe crowd. An 1 no vest wiui: probably be held 'tonight.Mori iz Hupers came “to Alameda County in 'the 50's, satl-lirag at Mt. Eden.*then at San Lorenzo, and about 1S69 moved to Llverm-ore, where he Jju1-K ‘tire Farmers* Exchange In 0*1:1 Lead'dsvJle, finally moving Uhe but'lding to i-vs press rat ■lacation anrl adding on to it. Mr. Hupers was one -of the best known men m 'this ] •povtloii oC the couroiy, and was greatly r fHvmed li V all who kow him. I
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Oakland Tribune
Oakland, California, US
Mon, Dec 18, 1899
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