New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-29
& BROKERS' SUICIDE.
HE PUTS A BULLET IN HIS TEMPLE!
FOUND IN HIS OFFICE BY BoY-A JEWEL
MISSING FROM TIE BODY.

Henry Horwitz, IA diamond broker. committed
suicide yesterday By shooting himself with
revolver at his office, No. Maiden Lane. The
circumstances surrounding the shooting are in
VOWED IN considerable mystery. Mr.. HOrwih had
room ON the third floor of No. II Maiden Lane.
occupying the same room were two other brokers,
Rudolph Reinhart and j. H. Weinberg. Mr.
HOrwitz, who is said to have been of a cheerful
dsposition reached the Office at his usual hour
yesterday. He left the room during the morn
ing for the purpose of transacting
some business and returned at a little before
IL o'clock. The office boy, Henry n. Ferte, then
went out TO his luncheon, and he was quickly
Followed by Mr.. Weinberg and Mr.. Rcinhart.
Mr Horwitz was seated at his desk AT twenty
nVe minutes to l Ferte returned. At first he
Ihousht that the place was empty, until going
TO the back of the office, which is divided by
wooden partition wall from the rest of the room
ana is used as wash place, he saw Mr.. Horwitz
leaning face forward in the narrow space between
the partition wall and coal box, one elbow
resting on the box and the other against the
wall. Mr.. Horwitz made no reply when the lad
spoke 10 him, but was breathing heavily.
ferte, believing that his master had been sud
oeniy seized with illness, ran out to the street
and obtained the assistance of Officer Aiken, of
Horwiz was suffering from a pistol shot wound
In the right temple. He was quite unconscious
and died before DR.. Harrington, who had been
summoned by Ferte, could reach him. The
pistol with which the shooting had been done
an old-fashioued 22-calibre revolver which Hor-
WITT had regularly carried with him and which
was lying on the ground where it had evidently
fallen from his hand.
1t was at first suggested that Horwitz's death
was the result of an accident caused while he was
removing the revolver from his pocket, but the
nature of the wound, which is penetrating and
direct, together with the fact that the revolver
had been cooked, makes this theory impossible OF
Dellef. HOrWitZs friends unable TO assign any
cause for his suicide. For many years he was
employed by Stern Brothers, diamond dealers OF
Maiden Lane but in January last he started in
business on his own account. lie is known to
have lost about $4,000, all he had in the world,
by the failure and flight Of Emil Van Gelder, the
diamond merchant. His honorable conduct in
that transaction, however had inspired diamond
men with the fullest confidence in his integrity
and they were prepared to credit him with any
amount of stock.
For business purposes Horwitz was accustomed
to carry about with him small wallet OF
diamonds This wallet he placed each night
in the National Safe Deposit Company's vaults,
Llberty-st and Broadway, calling for it each
morning before he went to his office. On Saturday
nght he locked up hls property, and yesterday
called at the vaults, went to his deposit box and
opened it in the customary way. Early yesterday
morning Horwitz received from J. r. Greason Il
small diamond which he had left with the house
for sale, and which had not been disposed Of
On the body found a gold watch, several
keys, s24 in money, letters memoranda and the
portrait Of q weman, but both the wallet and
the single diamond were missing. The office
safe was opened, and contained nothing but ten
gold watches. The wallet Of diamonds may still
be in the Deposit Companys vaults
Horwitz was shot at by unknown man in
the streets of Boston many years ago, and this
led him TO apply to the police authorities for
q permit 10 carry a pistol. He Hebrew,
uiss married and lived happily with his wife and
three children at No. 231 West -hundred-and-
thirty-fourth-st. His brother is Otto Horwitz, a
lawyer. Coroner Levy gave the necessary permit
for the removal of the body.