The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-12
WHAT IA BROOKLYN MAN DID.
TeIegraphing News Of His Death
and Rescued in Reply.
The Rapid Drive Of His Relatives While
He Was Buying Poison TO Kill Himself
One Thousand Dollars Thrown
Away in Thirty Hours.

Away in Thirty Hours.
New York SUM-
On Wednesday afternoon at o'clock O.
Young man staggered into the Van Dyke
House, at Bayard street and the BOwery, and
aked for O sroom. The hotel register was
turned so that he could enter his name upon
IL, and while he wrote the clerk observed him
closely. He was handsomely dressed, stout,
fair-haired, blue-eyed, and wore q light mus
tache. He seemed to be, about twenty-five
The clerk noticed that his hand and arm trem-
bled violently. II have been on drunk for
four days." said the young man, land it's
pretty hard to write when ones in the condi-
the name, Richard A.Smith," and added as
his address, New York" In paying for the
room he displayed Q roll Of bills, some of
which seemed to be Of large denomination.
"Don't you think / need a clean. shirt" he
asked. The clerk said that he Thought SO,
decidedly. He asked fol. a glass of whisky
and afterward drank another. Then he went
to his room, No. AZ. and slept until o'clock
In the evening. When he reappeared In the
bar-room he asked to be directed to tele-
graph office. He was told OF one In the Sum-
NIT House. Finally he determined to 20 to
an American District Telegraph office and
started for Broadway. When he returned he
went to his room.
At 10 o'clock that night Policeman +. b.
Crowley, whose post Is iii Bayard street.
from Baxter street to the Bowery, saw a
coach driven at high speed, through Bayard
street and turning ~ view th s.,, uncommon o
curb near by which he stood: The convey
ance was q private one and Of the costliest
kind. The spirited horses were covered with
perspirattOn and breathed as though their
race had been long and rapid. Two men
stepped from the coach, and one OF them held
toward the policeman the dispatch that the
boarder In the Van Dyke House had sent less
than three hours before. 1t was addressed
ssMrs. Richard A. II No. - Madison street,
sing name or number. He says he took an
oath not to divulge them. The message in
the envelope read as follows:
VAN DYKE HOUSE, % BowERY,
September 8, 1879. I
Dear Helena-I send my lasting farewell.
And was signed, Richard A.
whom said he was the brother-n-law Of the
man who sent the dispatch, walked to the
hotel on the corner. On the way the brother
in-law said than his sister, the wife Of the
when she read the dispatch. Recovering her
presence OF mind she sent for her brother,
who lives on Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, and
he drove with all haste to New York. Crowley
and his companions went to room AZ In the
hotel, and the policeman opened the door and
entered. He says he entered cautiously be-
cause not long ago he was detailed to watch
the mailman In the Metropolitan Hotel, who,
into the hallway and shot down a brother po
Hceman. In this case Crowley found a young |
man In his Undertaking., reclining On bed. |
Crowley wore au Indian rubber coat, for 1t had
luted him with the words: "Halloa, rubber
man, what brings you hereY He did not
move until his brother-in-aw entered the
room. Then he .sprang to his feet and the
corner Of the room. Policeman Crowley busted
himself feeling In the young mans clothing
for firearms, but there were none. On the
table, however, there was bottle OF lauda-
mum, and beside i there were three or four
packages OF paris green, tumbler, OF water
and an empty tumbler. Crowley poeketed the
poison, Of which, he says, there was enough
to kill dozen men,
taken to the Mulberry street Station. .'Your
wife is waiting for you there" said the
over here?" the young man asked. In front
OF every saloon he stopped and begged to be
permitted to drink Once or twice he resented
the action of the policeman in walking by his |
side and urging him on, but the other men |
explained the policeman's presence satisfac- |
torily. In the station the formal charge OF
drunk and disorderly conduct was made. and |
the young man was questioned. He would |
have given his correct name. but his brother |
in-law interposed the name Smith. He gave
his age as twenty-eight (which was said |
to DO incorrect), his occupation as that Of q
merchant, and his residence Brooklyn. He |
was shown to a cell, and there he asked for q |
match. A candle was offered him, but he said |
he did not want light, but matches, SO that /
he could smoke during the night. After he
had been locked ill., his brother-ln-law begged |
that q bed might be put into the cell. He said |
he felt terribly about what had occurred, and |
preferred charge against dick, as he called |
him, only to keep the young man from obtain
ing liquor, and that when he was sober he |
might be taken home. The brother-in-law
said he would give 500 If the young man
could have bed, but the police refused to
lice that the young man took $1,000 from the |
Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank on Tuesday. |
and had spent nearly all OF 1t In the thirty
hours that followed before his arrest. The
money had been deposited in that bank for
temporary convenience. He said the young |
man was wealthy, and Of the highest respect
ability. He refused to say why his relative
left home or had attempted suicide. On
Tuesday morning Policeman Crowley took |
the prisoner to the Tombs Police Court, where
man seemed to be thoroughly sober, and ex-
pressed regret only for the probable publicity |
his behavior would gain. His wife's brother
and father were In court, and the wife, a |
young, air-haired woman, elegantly attired, |
sat In her carriage in Franklin street, near
the prison entrance. Her relatives withdrew
The charge, and whispered what they had to
say to the Justice, and the young man was
discharged from custody. He went from the
courtroom arm-in-arm with his friends, and
when ne entered the carriage his wife en-
Draced and kissed him again and again.
Trouble Among the widows.
philadelphia Times.l
Another widow has mysteriously disap-