New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-20
AN OLD AClURS SUICIDE.
suFFocArrNG HIMSELF WITH GAS.
- vd,v AZ A COMEDIAN AND PLAYWRIGHT
y ----.xe-, on, rnIrz IN IRELAND"

x,A,v .s A COMEDIAN AND PLAYWRIGHT
AUTHOR OF "FRITz IN IRELAND"
Tn small hall bedroom, on the third MOOR OF no
ora East Fourteenth-st. yesterday, lay the oeau
body of William Carleton, aG1or S Sad dccnpied the
vnu, only few months and when he lived IN ~
he was broken health and nearly aess .u Iberrv
trunk was sn6 Pa oms %ls Mrs Charles Of East
Fourteenth-st, for his meals For eyer he Could
had suffered SO much from gastritis tnaI NC small
only take milk punches, and he llVea ol q ' Snn
allowance of that kind of pourishment since o and
dny. Believing that his illness was s lacked
Respondent on account OF VAIL . cIosed the
window and suffocated himself oy .u dna rs
on the gas His mifortunes were sa,o " g ,s room
long-cOntinued habits OF nn.v few articles
az VIC t u some manuscripts of plays which ne
had written, aud few worthless TihMv rso was
bad not been aSs 30 he hSd kept in
for many years paper pasted on IL ooio '"0''
lines: s ,,uo,hed
nuen nyr doubt and scorn and love and hate:
Within tins Ssr ars the pangs we feel dwet here
This was the house OF that we call tho SOU
Fra housed Bereft Of all thy garnlt,nre'
Fen now an idiot can thy fate control oi..r,oa
These empty sockets once held orbs snameo
The diamond lustre OF the peerless ,snn this sull
The music of the tongue wagged wltnin 'ni' 'AA'
Held ears in bondage by its magic spell scars
A nd Ieff a Thousand hearts with twice tuousans '0
Where now is all the glory of that beauteous nes9'
W. an tras waved the wind 10 KISS tnehl shuh'
Alas fts loyeiiness IL destroyed ana ueao'
But this remains to tell what has been. c,p,rros
Carleton was ffty-eight years OF age ana was
horn in Dublin Ireland, being named aiter ms
nnce who was novelist. He came 10 tnls Guy
abonf thirty wears ago and obtained an ehgage
,nent at the old Comque Theatre as vi 5;
actor Becoming we'll known as an irish comeuian
he received a large salary, which he speht nee t
In his heat DAYS as an actor he was calleu ING rho
great CarIetonn One of his songs, called In S
Whstling Thief" became popular ana encouIasS6o
him TO write songs for other actors Al len9,M h
hogan TO write plays and was so successIuI INA. no
gave M acting and devoted himself aitogetner ~
writing. HIS best known WORK is fri m., ~
Ireland" written for j. n EmmeI.. J Sar y
nlevs written by him are Rags agd hlchss,
Rir;sb Aristocracyn Wreck of the DduntesS,
"McParIsn, the Detective" Dumb Luck Inc Inc
Two Fonndlincsn Little Casino" "Gottlleb. tne
Wandererr and "The Broken Brokers; ne mar s
ried in 1866 Mrs. Peck the divorced vic "a ro a
CINCINNATI merchant, but she died zen tes asJ.
He afterward married woman VINO kePt oo AL
ing house IN Philadelphia His second VIE oieu
about six years ago. leaving daugh1peL, mJ
the care of her relatives Ia Phlladelpnla;
Carleton's dissipation led to lssses OF money anu
nnf;ttsd him for work Lately he became pen
s;oner on the Actors Fund end was sent TO nos
nital for a time but when he returned 10 MS
former habits in the use of liquor the managers re-
fnsed to assist him longer. Carleton recentiyy
wrote a play called "Zitxa," intending III iol ..
X Emmett and his failure to sell the play was one
canse of his dependency. 1t was said YESTERDAY
that the ex peDse of Cartoons burial would DC paiu
out of the Actors Fund