New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-16
ENDING TROUBLE BY DEATH.

William S. Belden, of this city, committed suicide
In the Hazeltine House Manchester. NJ H., on July
10. He was travelling salesman and was selling
fine soap. At a. m. his roommate was waKehed
by hearing gasping noise and found Belden strug-
Cling violently A physician who was called was
unable to relieve him any, and about 8 a. IN. he
died. In his room was found letter addressed to
the Coroner as follows:
Ihave taken my life by my own Notwithstanding, two
ounces Please place my body In care OF John ID. Bean
WHO win take charge, and you VIII greatly So,ge; yours
respectfully, WIS., bELDbS'
The day that Belden committed suicide he called
at the City MarsbaPs office in Manchester and
asked for a blank for making criminal complaint
against man IN Gambia The blank was aitfLw ara
money in his pockets IL Is SAID tnat ne was vas, d
dissipated man and had tried once before to take
his life in the same hotel. He was thirty-three
years old and was married to niece of John d.
Bean, OF Gambia, and leaves wife and one chld.
His body will be brought to tins CITY + >" burial .
Mrs Margaret Governs, OF No. loo GraDd-st,
HOboken, died yesterday morning from the ehects
of dose of Paris green taken wednesday alter
noon Within two years the woman lost four
children and her mind became weakened through
grief. For several weeks sac was very despondent
and frequently threatened to end her life with
poison. Mrs. Governs was sixty years DID,
Mrs Louisa Reinhart a German woman living at
No I54 Gardenst., Hoboken, attempted TO Kill her.
SELF ar an early hour yesterday while locked up IN
cell in the police station in that city, She has been
insane for nearly two weeks. YESTERDAY she was
committed to the Hudson County Lunat1c Asylum
at Snake Hill by County Physician Converse.
Officer OKeefe of the Central Park police while
passing along the western drive in Central Park OPP
poslte One-bundred- and-slxth-st., at hail-pasU
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, saw the body OF,
young man hanging to OF the trees that SKIRT tie
road He cut the body down. and discovered That lle
had been extinct some hours and the BODY was cod'
He conveyed the body to the Arsenal, where the
clothing was searched, and postai-eard
was found in one of the the pockets t bnd
committed s1icde. The postal card was addressed
toCharles +. Sundorf, of No. $50 Lexingtou-ave
On 1t the young had wrftenthat be had been &C
cused falsely of "a crime which he could not disprove
aud that he had sought refuge from disgrace IN
de-. by;his own hand Mr.. SundOrf was summoned
t. Central Park, and recognized the body
and the handwriting on the postal cara
as that of bis son. William twenty -One
years old. The body sent 10 the Morgue.
boat containing several persons was piylDg along
the lake in Central Park shortly after 10 o'clock
Wednesday night, when the boatman struck some
object in tho wafer with his and stopped
10 make an INVESTIGATION. The object was
found 10 he the body of man, which had evidently
beeu in the water several hours. III was lying near
the shore of the lake. and the feet were fast In The
mud. The body was towed ashore and taken care
of by the Central Park Police. IL Is sup
nosed that the man had committed suicide.
ma there we're 10 marks of violence on the body
The rockets contained nothing except rusty
rev and n paner Of tobacco. Tho man was
five wears old, short and stout III build.
with short brown hair aud mustacne. He was
dressed III a black alpaca coat. gray striped trou-
sers. CATER shoes, white SHIRT and brown straw