The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-09-09
ONE LESS TEXAS CR ANK.
he SUICIDES IN NEwyoRk CITY
I. +. Buck Blows His Brains Out In Cen.
trai fark-A Mass OF Letters OF In
sane Inspiration Left to Prom
iaent People In this
state and Elsewhere.

NEW York, Sept. Sat s O'Clock
this morning the dead body Of man
was found in summer house in Cen
trail Park. He was about GO
years OF age, 8 feet 10 inches
in height, gray hair, full gray
beard, wore loose sack coat and black
velvet vest, grey pants, boots and
white shirt. On his person was bag
containing two phisls OF poison, label
led Washington, a package OF arsenic
and large revolver. He Is supposed
TO be +. 3. Bush. He had letters tO
leading mon throughout the country,
including ex-President Arthur, and
AFRO letters addressed to all the news
papers of this city.
Tho deceased had ended his lie by
shooting. A park policeman, who
heard tho report OF the weapon, hur-
ried 10 the spot and found the old man
leaning against q railing with his
face covered with blood. A murder
Gus looking revolver dropped from
his hand AZ the officer came up. He
gasped convulsively twice and died.
He had shot himself throurh the
the right temple and tho bullet had
entered his brain. Before the shoot
ing he had tied himself to the railing
with rope. In small leather
sachel that lay beside him was found
MASS OF LErTERs.
sealed and provided with stamps.
each with pencil note on tue
reverse side, giving to the finder the
alternative OF opening them and read
ing their contents or mailing them
just as they were. There were letters
addressed to ex- President Arthur, the
editors OF the Galveston News, the
Bandera Bugle aud the San Antonio
Express, In Texas, and to the Louis-
vile Courier.J Journal aud the Republi.
can In st. Louis; to Governor Hub
bard and Governor John Irelan a,
Austin, Texas; Governor o. II, Rob
erts, also ut Austin, and a large pack
age OF enclosed letters And
notes to most OF the newspapers In the
city. Besides these there were cards
Of tho Parker hotel at Washington
and the Eagle hotel of Jersey CITY, al
both Of which the dead man had eyi.
IDENTIFY stopped.
The poison had been bought In
washington, as the label shows. So me
o. the letters were also dated Wash.
ington, rs far back as the beginning 0i
last month and were written within a
few days In this city. They were all
Tho rawlings Of an insane man, and
from them 1t appeared that the suicide
was In pursuit of
A ACRANKY SCHEME
to redeem the world on q new and
better plan than the old one. IL an.
peared also from the letters that the
writer was a Texan and did not have a
cent. A long rambling sermon on
purity, the text for which was furnished
by Pars0n Newman's funeral sermon
on General Grant,,.was dedicated to the
"statesmen, the moralists, the better
minds aud tho better thinkers OF 80.
ciety and Of the world" There were
special addresses to Bob Ingers0ll and
Henry Ward Beecher, whom the writer
designated as two of tho best mel
on the globe, and charged them /,
keep sight OF their work, but to diI
II know you would bs progressiye,' ,
he wrote to Mr.. Boecher. "You cam,
pretty near knowing something once
Lie charged Mr.. Beecher and Mr.. In
gersoll with tho duty of seeing that the
mass or mess OF "heterogeneou stuff
which he had left behind should
bs published to the world. He esti.
mated tho amount at 1000 pages, all of
It in the hands OF his son Walter
Buck, or deposited In the
bank OF George n. Sturgis, OF
Hillsboro, Texas. In one letter
he spoke of an attempt at suicide he
maze In the Astor house on January
s, 1854, and he wrote about his failure
with regret. Tho letters that would
have been found with his dead body
then, he said, were in the
hands of his son Daniel, at Blooming
Grove, Texas. Reference was also
made In q letter of n projected at.
TEMPT at suicide in Washington thai
likewise came to nothing. Tho time
sat was apparently Gen. Grants
funeral day and the place
the Hotel Parker, but he afterwarC
gave the project up.
TO MK, ARTHUR.
The letter to ex-President Arthu
was m follows:
New York, Sept. ITO President Arthur
wrote you in the greatest distres
that was going to help tn,
world. You paid no attention 10 me
What have you now TO say about pu
riiicati0n of tho race.
| Respectfully,
| TT. BUCK.
Ia one OF his letters no refers to th
Louisville Journal and Republican a
his "natlve town paper"