New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-20
TWO LUNATIC IMMIGRANTS.

SUICIDE OF ONE on THE PASSAGE AND A WILD
STORY TOLD BY The OTHER.
On Monday afternoon Justice Of the Peace
Kassner, Of stapeton, s. L. gave Information TO THE
TRIBUNE that a German named John Ii. Nader OF
Brooklyn, n " had appeared before HIM and sworn TO
a statement. the substance Of which follows:
That on 3lst of May he mad sailed a cabin passen
ger from Hamburg on board the bark Betty storer,
captain VIM sef. the only other passenger being
Perperj that after the vessel had been at three
weeks Perper aud hescaptain mad quarreed and that
frO that time they did not speak, that the 21st OF
July, between the hours Of and 10 O'Clock at night
Perper had Jumped overheard IN wing left letter be-
hind declaring that he had taken 10 the I'm cOnse
quence the cruel treatment he had received at the
captains hands, and because he feared that the captain
Intended to poison himj that he had constructed raft
and stocked provisions, and hoped by means OF
It 10 reach America in safety. A TRIBUNE reporter
found Justice Kassner, who introduced him to Mr..
Nader. Mr.. NADER young German VINO speaks
English Ne tod ramohhg stoil ABOUT Fefpelts nav
which he intended to use as "a raft, an umbrella for
hottie of jamaica rum and a ham as proyi.
sious. Nader sald that he did not believe Per
nrt was out of his mind but that his ideas of distance
and nature OF the were rather Indefinite. DR..
Schumacher. the German Consul-Gcnsra told the re-
norter that Captain stief had made satisfactory ex-
psnaOn OF the suicide and had filed extracts the
log of the snip, which full account of the
o'tler From these IL appears that Pemcrt was pen-
faut relative % part owner or the vessel at whose
"-t Caplain stiet WHO owns the larger mart himself
consented bring the young man ~ this country
of charge, his relatives desiring 10 get rid Of INN Iii
health failure In hs early lie, Inc lack prospects
the futdTe formed the subjects Of his constant mtda-
ton until hc became the victim OF n chronic melau-
chona aud Imagined that everybody Intended do HIM
bodily harm In the seventh week OF the voyage, when
the YeBo, IN latitude ana longitude 49, Ierpcrt
was found to o. missing aud though no one had wit-
uessed the suicide, believed 10 have jumped
board.
This statement received cur nation last evening at
the office of Punch Liye y lu.. Nu. II South William
st., whom the cargo OF tnc Betty rtorcr rad been
consigned. Mr. EdYe said that he believed the VI
PeTpert like great many others where families In
Europe anxious 10 get ria of troublesome relatives had
shipped them TO America but that this occasion the
country had been prOyide ntaiy spared the infctOu
lie also said that Captain suei accounted FOR Maders
statements on the ground that the latter had been in
tOXicaed during the entire voyage, Hud had
cred from the effects at the time he had made the ALI
davit. This theory confirmed by Nader. who
the office While the reporter there, expressed
his CUnritlOu 10 the Captain for having given publicity
such statements nc bad. ana acknowledging that
they fabrication which he had made when uUder
the influence Of liquof.