The New York herald., 1879-03-15
DEAD IN HIS NEWS BOX.

SAD ENDING TO A STRANGE LIFE-cHEcKERED
CAREER OF THE SUICIDE EMIL aUILLAUMR
curious crowd fingered yesterday around the
little newsstand ct the Of First street and Sec
ond avenue, whore Emil Guillaume. newsdealer, was
found on Thursday night with his feet resting on
chair paper in his hand and bullet In his brain.
He had for several months been trying to suit the
literary tastes OF the neighborhood. French Com.
munists advertise their balls and tomboas the
way; German socialists pirate in their clubs
round the corner, and most people in the vicinity
want their reading, like their political opinions
to be highly spiced. All day Thursday the passers.
by would stop to look at the coarse pictures which
served curtains the trsgedthat had been enacted
within. Little golden-haired maidens would come
hoop to cape open eyed at representations
midnight burGlaries. Stad matrons, their way to
market. would pause before these CHASTITY delinea-
tions Of outcasts in the snow-children thrown by
their parents to the wolves faithless squaws
ahawked by Indian spouses. To catch idle shop
boys. saunteriDg workmen and spruce clerks there
was the usual contingent Of ballet girls In the
dinary state of undress,
Behind this veil Of muddy literature Emil Gull
laume lay dead for twenty-four hours. Mr.. Henry
Stein. his partner. tapped ct the window pane on
Thursday morning. and thinking the man to be
dren went on playing with their hoops and marbles
before the stand and the ders went gazing the
pictures. In the evening. coming home. the partner
tapped again. This time he frightened. He
went for the police, and they broke open the door
with chisel: musty smell. thick with the fumes
sat the nswsdeaier his arm on the % desE. sppar. par.
entity taking hts ease. But the policeman saw .
six shooter CLEAN N his hand and tho party drew
thought. he might rouse himself and do them o mis-
chief. Rallies. the newsboy bolder that the rest.
sleepers temple small round hole. blsckened with
gunpowder stcin in the rear had just called. wake
up, old h; fellow % when the boys cry Of horror
the dead mans side was an empty whiskey bottle.
His glazed eyes were ixed on the rude engraving of
suicide st sea. In which the helmsman peers at the
corpse from the stern and the sailors fish for II with
boathook. This was the sort OF art in which Emil
Guillaume delighted. M sl. .
He came from Pforzheim. city in Baden. In
stature he almost dwarf. and therefore had no
father had emgrated from France to the quaint old
German town. whore modern iron works jostle
against romantic castles aud Jewel manufactures
son Of consideration. But Emil. the youngest son.
frequentcd beer gardens and concert halls, and was
triaton. Having landed in America he proved him
self clever workman. but was never steady. Once
he sailed in VIII ler from New Bedford. He a
crew. So he slipped overheard one night,
lashed to plank. and was picked up half
got married. His conjueal experience was as
troubled his nautical. HIS spouse was o stalwart
German frau who beat him and received attentions
from other men. Taking exception to the courtesies
Of . neighboring barkeeper ho was badly mauled
by the offended swain. Under these circumstances
he took to drink. aud In the bibulous phase Of
his career when from Pforzheim that his
mother was dead ana had left him q legacy. He
celebrated the latter event in many bsrrooms and set
sail last summer for Europe.
IN THE ENJOYMENT OF MONEY.
He returned with $500. and proceeded to procure
himself many enjoyments In the hrst place he
obtained divorce from his wife, In the second he
got steadily drunk from morning till night. In
the third he set up the nowsbox In which
he died. Here he developed An extraordinary
taste for sensational literature. Any picture
In his stand that represented murder or
bloodshed at once hxed itself on his imagination
Unable to read the letter press Of these esions he
persuaded even strangers TO explain the illustrations
On the Afternoon of Thursday his partner bought up
his interest in the newsstand With the few dollars
thus received he went out. purchased the pistol
locked himself In with his liquor bottle and fresh
supply of his favorite literature aud shot himself