New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-09
DYING TO REFORM THE WORLD
MOLD MAYS SUICIDE IN THE PARK,

,,ypriNG MANUSCRIPTS LIFT TO
ms cuILoRES-EvIDeNTLY CRAZY
"a ',on crossed by the Pavonia Ferry from
Jersey City early on saturday ,llornf;Sb where
- Wy. w. a room lie was of medium nelgns MIN
nc looh sid mead iringed with white hair, ana woIg
long white 6eaTd, aar ls y his name as /. f. buck.
sr lieht breakfast he walked over 10 tno @s 10y
FILL PARK lie looked toward the hewspapot,,
foS long time aud then turned away ur Honse
III , M moi do here" lie went to the Astor JUST
aud alter standing before II ior some .nnr tbev
sway. saying to himself: Not mere , gn Then
~ TOOK a car for Central Park ana ss.oibSe e
tb,onGh its shaded walks until D. m, VIII III.
returned to the home,Ma; ,l 81 n naner '"'
Afternoon in writing on bis Oh paper, cal por and
I'm Sunday he spent the day III Centlai r;stHo
an Tie way back to the hotel through honane in
~ i,tsd al the costly churches anu poca,o III
nc lovhea what he TERMED the waste OF money ex-
nended in their construction. ""J J,der I'm Mon
hotel he put his thoughts INTO saving that he was
going to Washington
again: .,oro,,o Patrick Meehan. n park
ILL., beari the report of pistol near Tue
Stvrah'aye entrance to the Park, and running 70
i,,,e summer house about 800 feet from tne s.ocss'
snd fire old man. supported by handKerccnioi'
ionuq sn tied about hs waist and to the lattice
work of the suId mer house, whlIe rom ct He
h,s dropping head the blood was np ';n nnon The
g. VA. revolver of large eailbre ana an empty
ho,t,e covered with blood. On the laoei OIL tne
Io,tl la xxaa
90 dTreSists printed beneath. were Sto Crom
reii a. Co Asa Pennsylvsnia.ave;, washington
ID On The body was removed 10 tpo assoer
thsnre 10 the MCrgue. where coroner Messen';;a
ia an autopsy aud found laudanuln enough III
the stomach to have caused death. IIou So ,y
mass of manuscript found ~ the si,a s r not;ve
sa.,hsl n was learned that the man was nat!ko
- Iowvie In this State; that lie hau oeen az tle
Cane OF Good Hope and IN various pl"oes I'll i IN
United states; mat ne r was d" wbo ne said having
sa,ied mn everything else had tonnd his true
zion as a reformer; that on January go ,nt
had attempted suicide at the AsloI n99.se, uue
h~ng taken several kinds Of poison he had thrown
them M; that he had come from hIllsooio, iSJn,
10 strike the world at some oen,Iad pun tbt h las
49, sons daniel NJ. aud Waiter W. IN leNas'
whom he wants TO bave the price OF MS ns1.,
seripis, when be values at hVe' 'en' ye' ni'e'"
ghsre il no question of his insanity. lie oeieved
that he could purify the world by diving LOT u
,non ,r,ing series of school books on Parental
Gnvernment In one of his wrungs' dateu a'
The Little Parker Hotel Washinetoh n ~ Rart
bs savs trat he went TO that city 70 get hopvIV
jusersoll 20 pay his way until nc could pet'ion .o
President and Congress TO ala ms scnee ne ioI t
,r,Hration of the race. The condition OF MS ciOln-
- ,Sos a ali ght ANNOYANCE TO him. Tor he frequently
wrote about IT, In one place he says had l
plenty of money would die In Delter anu S'oahv,
clothes am to die III the same sh,rt hau On ; =,
nv eanrt nj the Aston House the only Wute snub
I've had since the year oil tue fRlauelpn1a
centennial" There were number oil notes a,.,
,xsrs addressed TO different persons. Among tine
later were ex President Arthur and governors
John Ireland +. X. Lubbock. and U: A. Roberts oil
Austin. Texas. in which he complained that they
mid no attention TO letters saying That nc was
going to help the world "a, . H. r,,,.>,,
letter from Talcot F. Buck" to TIE JEisVS 81
dated Washington, August 80. was received az
~ rRIntSSE Office on Monday night IL was writ
ten on two sheets of legal cap even the MARGINS ths
iIo,s and nenitentiaries and 10 lessen the direct
tax Of all Christendop elo and The indirect tax
~ ;'ieas and promises to make a Heaven OF tn
naturally pretty and perfect world in place OIL .ne
iimitless Artificial Hell that IL now Ia lie com-
plains that it is difficult TO do what he wishes as
detectives are sueakng after him. because ne Is "a
solitary places of reflection and Thought ana
dresses and acts not like other men. Ihere are
several postscrpts the letters IN one OF when ne
expresses a fear that be may be arrested Tor
suicdal intentions and says that he writes 10 he
TRlBUNR 90 that DO might not be shut up ana de-
s,royed unknown Co his friends and the world. lie
tries 10 discount the Judgment of the world that ne
is crazy by asserting that the corrupt world ITSELF Is
insaae II any body crazy, or they would purify
and perfect"