Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-27
HE KILLED HIMSELF.
Suicide of the Assistant Rector oi
 a Baltimore Church.
REL ECTED LOVER.
ated, Refused to Entertain His Pro. posnl or Marriage, ana He Threat sned to Blow out Hia BrMins

BALTIMORE. May 27.-Rev. H. Green. field Schorr, the brilliant young assistant rector of St. Paul's P. E. church, com mitted suicide by shooting yesterday, to the great consternation of his friends in that aristocratic congregation and to tho utter surprise of all except the rector. Dr. $. B. Hodges. Tho bullet, sent by his own hand, went through his head from temple to temple, and had enough force left to crash through the transom. The shot alarmed tho matron of St. Paurs parish house, where Mir. Scborr lodged, and she informed Dr. Hodges. He went to his assistants room and entered. Stretched upon the floor Schorr lay dead. On tho table was this note:
 BALTIMORE, Sunday, May 26.-Many will con- demn me. God will have mercy. Please tell my dear aged parents No. 9o5 Eastern avenue. ip this city. but do it in gentle manner. Bury me from St. Pauls house and do not send my body to my parents for 1t would kill them if you do.
 s. GREHNFIELp ScHoRR |
 NIT. Schorr was in the best of spirits Saturday afternoon, and was quite bril- liant and witty in his conversation with a reporter who called upon him for infor nation with reference to u marriage cer- emony he had performed for an elopin z couple. It was probably this that in- duced him after tea to drive to the house of a young lady with whom he had been infatuated but who refused to entertain his proposal of marriage. He again proposed and, on being again refused, became quite wild and declared his in- tention of blowing out his brains. The young lady, fearing that he would carry out his threat, notified Dr. Hodges, and tho latter, who thought MT. Schorr might create a scene in church yesterday asked the police authorities to try to persuade him not to come in. and had q policeman stationed at the door for that purpose. Mir. Schorr did not leave tho house but carried out his threat.
 After Schorr's call on tho young lady he went to the shoemaker shop of his father. When asked why he was so si- lent he said:
 "An that money ts lost, the man Is dead
 This explains that remark. Some time ago tho son got loan of $500 from his father, which be said he wished to add to $500 of his own to pay note he had endorsed for a friend, grocer, at NcKeesport. Pa., and afterwards he said this grocer gave him notes for the amount, but would never pay, as he, the grocer, had committed suicide. Frederick Schorr, the young mans father, abelieves this story and that his son had so worried himself about being tho indirect cause of the grocer's death by pressing him for payment that he had himself committed suicide. He did not, however, know the name of tho grocer of whom his son had spoken.
 No inquest will be held. The St. Pauls house, 309 Cathedral street. is q charitable boarding house, under the auspices of the church, and the first floor was used as Sunday school Schorr, who was 2s years old, was graduated at the Philadelphia Divinity school five years ago, and has been tho assistant rector of St. Paurs since last October, ! previous to which time he had had a charge in McKeesport, Pa. He was d constant smoker and had some heart trouble, and frequently had fits of de- spondency