New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-04
GERMANS SEEKING DEATH.
KILLING THEMSELVES WITH PISTOLS.
rwo MEN OF OPPOSITE CHARACTER COMMIT SUI
eide ON TIE SANK DAY.

rwo MEN OF OPPOSITE CHARACTER COMMIT SUI
eide ON TIE SANK DAY.
Two Germans, who were as unlike IN cnars s;.h
a. two men could we'll be, killed themselves WIZ, ~
nis,ols about tie same hour yesterday; one "a
Them was Leo Fleidner. wietcDeu uIah I'M =; -
twenty two years DID, who bad been cast on uy
FAMILY and was in fear of being sent to prison nn
when he was sober he worked in gas meter sup sup
and he helped to support his wiie ana cpnu,
are said to be IN Connectlcut. is ns Is hs father
Who Keeps a beer shop at Ninth-ave and iwenrSo
ninthst and of his brother, who is IN the sau ot
Secn known as o ruffian until the night or Dr
August 5, when he attempted TO assault mat'
Rooney the young daughter Of Policeman hC NO. In
nf the Thirty first Precinct. lie met ~. MA 20
Ninth ave. near Sixty frs-st and attemP pd had
drag her into vacant lot, hut she escapeu any
him arrested. He was held IN $l.o0O pa, III became
Although he succeeded in finding ball ne nnncb
,nors ~ GOT than ever. and appeared to be mgch
disturbed on account of his approacn,ns md nd, IL
Most OF his time was spent In liquor nome of his
was sald that he had ceased TO have honne VI "-'
hardware merchant in Seventh-sye e,orpinS
sel Fledner single cartridge yes,eiuSyy ridge TO t
a p,so which he carried with him. Abo4 uoS W 6 a.,
Ficdner went into the beer shop az no a. ' fable
Forty and r sea'I he shot himself IN the
heart and fell dead in front Of TIE ss car
tender. When Information o. thew said they would
aled 10 sv hrs body and 1t was taken away py
f fos DIV yundertaker IN West Forty-seoond-st:
III Schultz was a stfhuy ou'
wbo had kept the small cigar store at NO. 40 rns,-
ave for eleven years. He had good wiie. VINO
heIned hun IN theiI prosperous business. AS tneie
we're no children in the family Schuitz was aOIe
70 Law up some money in savings bank every year:
He was devoted to his wife and was not
often out of her sight. bis only rouog,
so far as she knew, was weak
stomach. For years he had complained OF lndiges-
fon and he was fretfu at times because his TRENDS
conld not believe that he was sick. In June ne
went into the country and remained there two
months When he returned about two weeks ago;
his checks were brown and ruddy but he SUI said
he was not well. IF 1t were not for you, he sald
10 his wife, " / would kill myself"
He was about the cigar store as usuai YESTERDAY
morning hut at a. In he said he felt much worse
than usual and would lie down. He went up to the
second floor of the tenement house, where he ana
his wife usually slept and Mrs. Schultz took charge
of the store There was suspicious NOISE ABOUT
an hour LAT err but nobody took much notice OF IT,
Later when a tobacco dealer called at the store
Mrs >chultz went to consult her husband anu
fonnd hun dead in the bedroom. He had shot MN
self through the head, after writing two letters
one TO his wife and one to the coroner-to prevent
any trouble about his death. The letters ex-
plained that his bad health had made HE lnsup-
portable He left all his property to his wlie ask
ING her TO forgive him and TO look alter Tue
children of his sister in Germany.
David Watkins, age fifty. of No. 400 CIermont-
ave BROOKLYN, shot himself fatally In the head III
a vacant lot at Atlantic and Vanderbilt AYES
Yesterday morning He died later In the DAY at the
krooklyn Hospital He was furnace builder, out
he had been on prolonged debauch.