On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:28:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:57:55 +0100 (MET), Joerg Anders
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >I have the unfortunate duty of informing the MusiXTeX mailing
> >list that Werner Icking died on the night of February the 8th in
> >a bicycle accident as he drove home from his workplace.
> >
>
[....]
>
> He will be sorely, sadly missed. My heart goes out to his family.
>
> Eva
It is perhaps particularly sad and shocking because we think of
people who write free and open software as being always
young people who have many decades of healthy life ahead of them.
I was amazed to learn that he was already 57 years old.
A few years ago, I used to live in Bonn, and I walked through
country lanes in the forest which looked just like in the
newspaper photo. I can imagine being there.
For people who speak German even less well than me, here
is my translation of the news article.
My apologies for any errors.
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Puzzle about the dead man in Pleiser Wood cleared up.
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The death of the 57-year-old in St. Augustin puzzled the Kripo
(Criminal Police) at first.
The cyclist collided with an animal and was fatally injured.
Sankt [Saint] Augustin.
A dead cyclist posed a puzzle to the police on Friday morning.
The police found the 57 year old Sankt Augustin man on the street
called ``Viehtrift'' [cattle pasture] near Castle Birlinghoven.
The personal things of the dead man lay widely scattered.
Photo: Holger Arndt.
The location of the tracks was at first unclear to the officers
because the dead man's personal things lay at a distance of more
than 200 metres from where he was found.
According to the police, an analysis of the tracks permits the
conclusion that the cyclist fell heavily on the sloping road
through Pleiser Wood. Consquently, the wounded man would have
dragged himself a further 200 metres on to where he died. The
investigators found the hair of a pig or swine [literally ``a
bristle-animal''] on the asphalt. Apparently the man collided with
the animal while he was on the way home after working late at the
GMD. His wife had alerted the [Sankt] Augustin police at about
7:15 because her husband had not come home. Police searched the
man's route home and found him dead.
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Cheers,
Alan Kennington.
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