The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-13
STRANGE SUICIDE.

ITSA STRANGE SUICIDE.
WHO WAS THE MAN WHO KILLED
HIMSELF At BUSCH'S HOTEL.
Coroner O'Hara Is Reticent-The Mans
Name Was Said to Be Haustedt, But
His Friends Say that Person Is Alive
and Well.
Coroner O'Hara denies emphatically
that anybody committed suicide at
Busch's Hotel on Saturday night The
following story, however, is told of the
affair-but it may be well to say here that
there is another
man named Haustedt, drug clerk by
occupation, arrived, May s, on the South
German Lloyd steamer Ems. His mind was
trifie unbalanced, and instead of taking
him to Brooklyn, where he lived, he was
taken to Busch's Hotel. His malady be-
came worse. On Saturday he was very
violent and the other visitors in the hotel
complained of the noise he was making.
About eight O'Clock in the evening he
took some poison and died at about eleven
o'clOck. LIZ. dellert VINO nau Deen III dt-
tendance upon him since his arrival was
called in, but despite his efforts the man
sank and died.
Coroner O'Hara was called in and was
told that the affair was to be kept quiet,
as the recurrence of suicides was giving
the hotel bad name.
He agreed to take the body away and
went to the hotel at midnight with q
coffin and wagon. The cart was
driven up to the back of the house
on Court alley and the coffin was
thrown open. The servants employed in
the hotel wrapped the body in a sheet and
the CHASTITY procession started down
stairs. The body was then placed in the
coffin, which was taken to the Coroner's
store and placed in the celler.
THE CORONER IS RETIcENT.
A JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter was on
the spot and saw the coffin being lowered
into the basement. He endeayored to
look through the glass in the top of the
coffin. Nothing could be seen af he sheet
was wrapped around the man. The Coro-
uer observed the action and was quite
angry. 4gy s
MED that there was anything suspicious
about the affair." and said that the man
had died in fit at a swell boarding house,
and that as the people did not want any
thing said about the matter he would not
give any information.
County Physician Converse was in Ho-
boken yesterday afternoon and examined
the body in the cellar. The Coroner ex-
plains the visit by saying that DR.. Con-
verse was over on some other business.
The certificate of death given by DR.. Hell
fer is in the possession of Mr.. Converse.
Early on Sunday morning l called at
Buschs Hotel. Mrs. Busch's son was be
hind the bar, and in answer to my queS-
tiOI1 coi6 fhof pnhnIu hud dio6 fbnra
called there again this morning and
was informed that the name
of the man who had died there was Haus-
tedt, and that he lived at No 455 Henry
street, Brooklyn. For further informa-
tion l was referred to Mr.. j. Hausted, of
Office, Box 233, with whom the dead man
was engaged as clerk.
The hotel manager was very reticent,
and declined to say whether any papers
had been found on him or not.
Mr.. B. R. Crane, the Morgue keeper, to
whom the body ought to have been taken,
pending the visit of DR. Converse, said
the suicide He had heard on reliable au-
thority that the man had poisoned him
self
Chief Donovan said that no official pub
lication had been sent to him, but DR..
Heller told him that the man had COM
ullIlGu SulCluG ny UthIiS pOlSOA anu tIldU
the hotel people woZd not have it made
public at any pric&
DIR. RELFER's STORY.
DIR. Heller says that when he was called
in the man was in awful agony and max
ing great noise. He admitted having
taken strychnine pills and was dying.
The doctor is of opinion that if the man
was druggist he would know how much
was q safe quantity to take.
The man, however, denied having
taken the stuff with suicidal intent So
far as he knew the man was the owner of
a drug store in Brooklyn.
He had been to Bremen and returned
bv the same steamer on her return voy-
ageaand was staying in Hoboken to take
another sea voyage.
The deceased was registered under the
name of Meyer" but it is said that his
real name is Grisbald. This is the fourth
suicide that has happened at Busch's
Hotel in q few months.
: A reporter who called at the Office of
Timines, Haustedt & Co., at No. IS
South William street, was told that
the Mr.. Haustedt, who was sup
posed to have committed suicide was
alive and WELL and that the papers which
appeared to establish the dead mans iden-
tfty had not really been his property.