New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-25
DESPERATE EFFORTS TO DIE.
srI}c1DE AS AN END OF EARTHLY ILLS
ONE MAN HACKS HIS THROAT 10 PIECES AND
THE OTHER SHOOTS HIMSELF RATHER
THAN SUFFER ARREST.

THAN SUFFER ARREST
u,tcnman in the Adams Express CompAny's
once. at Broadway and Great Jonesst, oouceo man
Standing under the wooden awning on the 'ree'
Jones st. side of the building soon after Gay oe>A
to-day morning. The man apparently ma sousn.
stSslter from the storm He was dressoo ao'oi'' o
no had a detected look Suddenly no ore" H'."
from his pocket and drew the sharp oane so.'s .'
throat several times, cutting deep gashes az evea'
stroke Blood spurted from tho wounds. Ane Ss'on
man ran out Of the Office and called PoaoemAn cl0y'
Of the Mercer-st. squad, who was IN Broan"as. oy
dsarmed the man, and made q nasty atemp' " S"p
the dow of blood from his wounds linen no seais
hurry call for an ambulance. The man was nseie'o,e
before the ambulance arrived, but he revived In o'
v,ncent,s HOSPITAL later and the surgeons said no
nrohably would not die from his injury, as ne hso
not severed any large artery. He had hacRed ius
throat so many times that his vocal CHORDS weo eu'
10 peces however, and he could not SPEAK, .n' ~
neops said 1t was probable that he never ~ooo H,e
the power of speech again. Letters In the man
ooAats ,ndeated that he was Samuel Hof, an English
mon and that be had arrived In this city from Liver
Moi recently. His age about thirty-hve years
II was not known where no had been staying SINCE ius
arrival In New-York. - Ia
Alfred Miles truck driver, forty seven years oo'
hired rooms in the tenement house NO. 1''oo aen,n-
ave. two weeks ago, and went to 1--we there WIN i'
wife and four children. They had moved rom =
house in Harlem Miles did not work, but spent ms
time lounung about the house and drinking. fhs
wife, q good looking woman, said he was jealous VI
her although tey had been married twenty yeA[s
After vainly trying to persuade him to go 70 VOTE
She went to the Harlem Police Court on THURSDAY snI
nrocmred n warrant for his arrest on q charge OF
ri treatment Policeman Dwyer. OF the court squao,
went to the house with the warrant yesterday horS
and placed Miles under arrest. Mues asheo Il nv
conld change his clothes, and DWyer SAD iH.
Miles went into his bedroom and shot hmseu In Vic
head with revolver, which he had kept there Inc
Wound was dangerous, and at the MaIhasn ,d Hospital
later in the day the surgeons thought that Mics "ou
die. +, ..... IA 80 No oo5 west
Ct tried n kill himself last evening at his nome kana
is clerk for William A. Tyler importer no. IL Dr1au
St. aud he acted strangely at the store yeseruay
When he got home he seemed to be despondent an9
told his mother who is eighty years Old thst ne Ho
not think that he had long to live he went 10 NE
ROOM attached rubber tube 10 gas coSh, uIVpRse
on his bed and began to suck gas through tne Cuoo,
alarm. An ambulance was called, and Rand was re.
moved to st. Vincents Hospital. There Is shsh'
In little closet Just OF the hall on the flfth moor
OF the big building at No. "a Park Place, DAVID swan
SON. compostor committed suicide yesterday aitcr
noon nv emitting his throat from ear to ear 1t was
O'clock when swanson left his case IN the front room
where he was employed by the Railway PMonshshhIS
Company ard began pacing up ana ao~n inc , hS
shortly afterward he entered the closet, and tsns
knife the blade Of which was four ncnes Iohs MIL
one long slash cut his throat nearly severng MS hean
from his body noise In the closet attracted tne a.
tenton Of one Of the boys He opened tne dG9 aaS
almost immediately He had been In the employ OF the
company only short while He vas orty; nve yeaTs
lived In Tompkinsave., Brooklyn, ana leaves WIZ
and family