New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-13
AFRAID TO MEET POVERTY.
REASONS FOR KILLING THEMSELVES.

oSp WISHED TO DIE BECAUSE HE WAS OUT OF
woRK-TnE OTHER BECAUSE HE WAS LONELY.
A small room in the clearinghouse No. 200
Wooster-st. was hired about two months ago by
Jules Sthuard. Frencbman of middle age VINO
said that he had come TO this city from Iaris re-
Gently in search of employment tie told the iap pa
tbs e own u His family, he said consisted .; Of
Paris fs SISTER After anu remaining e." at the house
for two weeks Sthuard became an attendant IN the
French Hospital III FOurteenth-st. fOuIteen d'So
ago he returned to the clearinghouse anu sid no
had lost his position. On Sund y he appear TO
be melancholy. His poverty, he sald, KEEP nun
from paving for his board. He was found groanlns
In his room Yesterday. and he told the landlady
that he had decided that he could not nhu Hheaus
to earn a living He admitted that he mad taken
moved to ST. vincents Hospital the surgeons had
little hope of saving his life. lie died at
o'clock last n ,gv sa R S S Sn bag
and marked, Family papers. Nile Marie sthnaTd,
Rue Etienne- Marcel 81, Paris" There were also
three letters of hich was sealed aud addrcsse9
TO his sister One of the open letters was addressed
to NJ. Renaud president OF the French Beneyoent
Society, at the hospital III fOurteehtn-SI ~ "''
translated as follows:
MONSIEUR RENAUD: Ibeg of you to send to its ad p
dress the package handed you with this letter IL
aapers and mannscrpts) appeal to the heart of a
compariot and good man. my only recomnenHa ,tt
Pens s@a deas to doing it now Nothing left
but to ask aims and am too proud to accept them
FAR from my child from adored France ana that
poweess TO be OF further use 70 on will Srap
his request and who will thank you even from n,s grave
Arother letter was written to NJ. Beluvais,
musician living at the Hotel Favler IN clinton
place. 1t expressed the thanks OF the writer 1or
past favors. One sentence was:
am sick and tired account Of the constant struggle
with the material of life, and profoundly ais
gusted with society.
Enclosed was this letter of introduction to his
sister:
MY DEAR MARIE: beg YOU to give the bearer the
sum of % francs. which owe him He was
was tho first and last man to give me help IN America
de1Sths of the tomb JULES sTnUARD.
John j. Frieberger, Bavaran age sixty, moved
into rear rooms on the third oorof No l3o Narlck,
ST. last Nav, and started laundry there on small
scale He hired Mrs. Eliza Forkey, of No % Chart
ton-st., to wash and he did the ironing Ills career
had been one of varied misfortunes. Originally he
was a shoemaker, but he had not thrlved at MS
trade. While laborlug in mines in Australia he mad
married but his wife had become an invalid SeX-
eral children had been born but all had died. lie
was afflicted with an incuraole disease when made
his life mockery, ard physician had 'olu INN
Freberger and his wife agreed to commit sulclGe
together and the day for their exit from the world
was fixed, but on that day Mrs. frlebergers coul-
age failed her and she decided to break the agree
ment she died from pneumonia last fall, ana her
husband buried her body in the. the Lutheran oennt
that time that he would commit SUI
eide. but he continued to carry on , the
laundry business. Mrs. FOrkeY trleu 10 get lhto
ms rooms Yesterday but the door was locked. A
polia nan forced it open and found FTiebergers
body frozen stiff, hanging in one OF the rooms.
The old man was last seen alive on Sunday ana he
probably committed suicide on that day. He had
left letter III the German language, the burden OF
which was:
now nothing for me- ask the aid OF friends 10 bury
NE in the Lutheran Cemetery beside my beloved VIC
Alone | stand In this world. They have all left me-
Ferdinand Koeppel, age forty, a book-keeper for
NJ Won Keller & Co, woollen dealers at No; 167
William-st committed suicide last night by shoot
ing himself in the head at the Office The cause OF
the suicide is not known further than that son of
the dead man told Sergeant MOgan, of the Fourth
Precinct that his father to be discharged tins
morning from the position which he had held for
nearly twenty years. Mr.; Won Keller says thai me
firm had no intention Of dismi ssing him hocnpei
1ft ia and sV Children who live in jersey City.