I will write a letter to some
person who does not exist, a letter which will make it appear as if
I were in excellent humour and planning for the future.
And now, good-bye to life. People have called me eccentric, they
may be right. This last deed of mine at least, is out of the
ordinary. No one will say now that ended my life in a moment of
darkened mind, in a rush of despair. My brain is perfectly clear,
my heart beats calmly, now that I have arranged everything for my
departure from this world of falsehood and unreality. My last deed
shall go to prove to the world how little actual, apparent facts
can be trusted.
The one thing real, the one thing true in all this world of
falsehood was your love and your trust. I thank you for it.
THEODOR BELLMANN,
known as
JOHN SIDERS.
Joseph Muller refuses to take any particular credit for this case.
The letter would have come in time to prevent Graumann's conviction
without his assistance, he says. The only person whose gratitude he
has a right to is Prosecuting Attorney Gustav Schmidt. He managed
to have the Police Commissioner in G-- read the letter in detail to
the attorney. But Muller himself knows that it failed of its effect,
so far as that dignitary was concerned. For nothing but open
ridicule could ever convince a man of such decided opinions that he
is not the one infallible person in the world.
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