New-York tribune., 1877-07-09
PREFERRING DEATH TO LIFE.
INCREASING NUNBER OF SUICIDES.

" 10 the people IN our llne OF ousHVSS' S"'"
one of the officers at the NewYcrk Hospital yesterday
as and women were busy day and night
irving to /u an end 10 their lives. Ambulances are
almost continually rolling up 20 the hospitals with the
half dead and dying Its unrlea ant husiness-oho
continual experience Wit broken limbs. Diseased hodieS
distracted minds and mutilatcd corpses Aud the mum
Der OF our unfortunate visitors seem TO he Increasing
have never known so many but the arrival OF an
ambulance containing q who had been found
piostratcd In Uuonquare interrupted the conversation
During the Winter and Spring the community was
startled 10y the frequent eases OF mysterious disappear
arce, which were undoubtedly mostly suicides During
the Summer the record of suicides and attempts al
suicides has increased at unusual rate From June
10 the close Of the first week in July, siNtythree
people in this ana adjoining cities have attempted To
kill themselves OF this numher 3S were suceessiuii
10 came So near executing their wishes that they
will bear marks the rash deed until death; 10 were
restored to health The assigned for suicides are
numerous. among them disappointment in business ana
I'm love- failure 10 obtain employment. jealousy and oven
desire for nOtorety Some instances are recorded OF men
killing themselves in drunken ht while many suicides
are known 20 have resulted from the most trivial crcum
stances OF GO Of attempted suicide reported
thus far this Summer. the OF death chos was
as follows: Drowning, 25; shooting, IL; stabOne' v
poison To- hanging 3. The number of men who tire OF
life far in excess Of the number of women only ~
the G3 cases being of suicide by the latter
Ii has been discovered that Of the reported at
tenpts al suicide are based misrepresentation Men
and women found in apparently nsensibie condi
ton or give evidence OF having taken poison and are
hurried TO a hospital where restOravcs are gwen ano
warm nourishing food SUI pied Upon careful examii-
alton it is discovered Is nothing aing the pa
tient except a lack of food A 10 the point was
noticed AT the NewYOrk Hospital yesterday Is Robert
LYNCH tho destitute carpenter who swallowed siX cents
worth Of arsenic desdi" ked the reporter " Dead
Yes he's deadhcad. There is nothing at all the mat
ter with Lynch He never poison but having heard
vr1ac haXe here
play the suicide dodge and get MI Lynch leaves us
tomorrow"
Several cases Of suicide and attempted suicide were re-
ported saturday and yestel day. as follows
Eugene +. Foiaras, young Hungaran who arrived ii
this country about 10 months ago, committed suicide
Yesterday lie went 10 Philadelphia wuere he was EN-
ployed as waiter and while there became acquainted ana
fen in love with Mata schuenbach of Nc. 927 North
5th-st The course OF love did not run very smooth!
and Mata's love for her ardent admrer grew cold.
short time ago Eugene 10 thus city and wa
recommended " Grandst restaurant Keeper
to boariinchouse at NO. lo' toNythSt,
Mglg .,f S 5raug ScayiIy during tha; time ana sold
his watch and coat and pavned MS ring Here he u
ii' roIf1nce saturday evening he ana his friend spent
at The Atlantic Garden in the BOWery and when he part
Sl Sa " T1 moInnr rlf la At oceE yesterday morning oaa
was seen looking out OF LIS wlndo% About O'Clock ms
friend called. answered when the landIidN
Inccktd al the door ~ Foga rs room At D. U the
sn@ig saBs Tg ad il Was not an ocock When occupants
Of tle house went tie room hat lAoy discovered
he was dad. He yiuc on lS l.it SIDE with his
clothes and pistol wound III his lrit breast VINE
revolver Of French hSh nay oZrsu s s,r,c5 n and
found several letters from M1ta sIuenJa H. ana on
from him addressed to hcT. lie had dated 1t on July T.
at the Atlantic Garden 1t said;
Tomorrow ,th shall be the victim Of yoqr love for a.
pay visit to my grave aud yoq come 10 sew 6rk You
~ aier M nv death and be lucEicI with another fellow
He further said that ms fathers name II Demeor Fo-
rasi aud th1 d" T. grocer III s0ou lDes III
IL flteII NJ.
Ijttrubrg hIs friend Coroner Woltman sent The aOGy
to the Morgue aud VIII hold Az Lquest.
George 4. nrs, staggered III saloon at No.
a. Wbtcaa-,t. Lie Friday niglt. ard asked man
to direct Letter he held in IS hai IN GlFhE ne oittc
tcn h. 9ad so - a. L a. Sn en- A. A. s c1 (lS ol H.
nscsble. He rcinov Ell to the NewetreIi Ponce ~
ton and Afterwards to the Chambers Street Hospital 1t
suit o. large dose of laujsnum. heTe he died saturday
morning ana on searching us clothes formcan@ OF denti-
found with The following letter within; ito o--
NY ONLY LOVE have Just returned om Cone, island aud
have ialei and a. "id you ihad Was ny ta' ' S
happ the PRAYER Of your eyer loving husband GeIse
% 70 GLau ~, ,I ,r,E6cr by trie i unil last year
had worAcd III orleans. Last september he came to
RtW-York, br.u-iug l's wie WITH MN, ana tnsated
rooms al No II Way.Ilypace He obtained work ia the
CIV but t OWL out OF emp uymeni IN May ana
has been unable to get steady worn since thit time
take th7 m back to New Oreas and at That time ne told
l,r hiucd u letter printed above, thai his last
resource To 70 10 Conry Isnd ana sei enyoyintnt
from the raml1,atn; ph,toSgI2a ,e2leres on t4e
dent an his wife l1ed isr1 10 cheer him up On Fndly
h. went Coucy Isl, md and failed to 7et place lie
mad already provided hlie Win Iduddhum WHICH nc
.IlOWcd iL the Battery Idfk
Earnest Richter, @ orll, dsc 3d. was fOuud lying IN
III Iamhe lt Central Park, saturday afternoon, with
pistol ais side and two bullet holes IN his breat Inc
was conveyed 10 the ficsuytcll nos
Tith at scyenticta-st. aud Fourthaye; where IL
was found that tne two bullets had entered MS breast
few inches below the heart by papers on lhe pOhy u was
nsceraiued at cater We III tue ihc goods business
No. 2lO East II HJu>t"n-stlcet' Al ths "vu4c's hl
young wife lived and tended tie store "lle ne pdded
uudecOthug tnrough the city. Mrs RcAteI w"s some
WHAT surprised when she learned OF Hcf Lusp'ut :
otf.uutcd suicide, Der fears had been previously
raisd nv tie fact that her husband, meeting woman
oil their acquaintance IN the street that morn unS had
gwen er As pochct1Ook AMI asked her To give II To ais
vi lie When asked FOR cause Tor The suicide size !rO-
fesscd t. Of none, lis bad luck II BUS ness
AfterWarcs admitted that her husDnid was very
Of her ana continually shO"lhA IL Oh TIC
sIghtcst provo. ah,n Mheu KcAtei was restored To
conscious. .ss and Ais wounds carefully examined,
II was found that he IL iue danger lie confessed
snofinc himself His wife visited bim Oh SATURDAY ana
family trouble TIC cause Of lis uehp' 10 TAX
lis life. atAousn at hsS ne t"eI 70 PoI ycrx II
p'nlI,t Io id f,,I,er 3rIkvn on turday
anu am 81 ~ i ttu,uie TIe dead man was about y
yhcre was nothing on the bu0y by which II could he
'a'i,t ~ - u7cset, contained pawntckots but 10
,nousv Ofic.ls carried tie OOdv 10 tue western DIS
trct Morgue where II was identied Yesterday ny ihe
brother dead man as the Dodj Gi fdhcs oioudeT
of Esst-NcW York. tailor by trade lie had vie and
two ehi zen and WAS unable TO secure employment Oh
on account of dissipation. -, c..- c,.
During he voyage OF the steamship Cy OF chester,
UhicL arrived al ts port YESTERDAY from Liverpool Mat
thew Waite, ase tErty, jumped overheard and was
Marina johnson. age twenty.fouI. of Jersey Ci.y,
jumped into tie last RIVER fr.m ief NO. Ses,eIdas,
ctied, aud sent 10 the New-1oIk HoSpith.
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