The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-27
HE WAS TOO LAzF TO LIVE.
So He KILLED Himself and His Wife will
Give His Body to Science.

So He KILLED Himself and His Wife will
Give His Body to Science.
Christian Kummerle. a butcher. 40 years old
OF SG5 First avenue. shot himself in the bend
in the hallway OF a tenement ut COS Fast Four
teenth street before daylight yesterday morn
ing and was found dead. 1t was the last act OF
n strangely lazy and selfish man. whose selfish
ness led to cruelty to his family. consisting of n
hard working wife and three children. son
- years old and two daughters OF and
years. Kummerle came from WurtemburG
many years ago and set up in the butcher
business on the east side. His wife
died. and thirteen DAYS aforwerd he mar
ried tho woman who is now his widow.
She has borne him eight childron Of whom
three are living. Kummer!e seems to have
been a decent sort of man until fifteen years
ago. While he was at work in Meyers slauCh-
ter house, on irst avenue. near Forty-sixth
street. he cut his leg with knife and was
Sent 9e Ma eF bn G got Me ,be ne
daily bread by doing washing. kummerIe
drank sight Of beer every day and smoked
necessarily. Smoking was Il passion, and he
made = collection OF twenty-siN fantastic Ger
man pipes, which he hung il 4 row on the
ten butcher knives and cieayers. whicn he
also artlstically arranEcd on The wall. Whea
hummerie c0uldn,t se 81 his Site to lend him
hulking Is fellow. over feet tall. his vito
WAS, or thought she was. powerless to prevent
says and -Guandered 1t on another woman.
He remained away rom home nineteen days.
and returned whom hs was broke.
On June II Mrs kummere says kummere
detected her wrapplng $50 in some cloth and
putting !, n her trunk: 1t Vas the saving Ct
and his wife didn't see him again alive. She
said she had learned TINT he had spent a good
deal o. her money in Henry Adler,s saloon at
COS East Fourteenth street next door to the
place whore he committed suicide He had.
she ssd represented to Mr.. Ader's pretty
and that he owned several houses In Astoria
lie took her out riding and tried TO make vio-
lent love TO the little girl. who repelled his
Kummerle shot himself, and the money to pay
for the team was probably the last OF the $50.
as there, was only IS cents In his pockets when
he killed himself
Kummere took pains to inform everybody
OF his intention to shoot himself. His vito re-
ceived q letter In German to that OBJECT and he
asked her to forgive him for wronPin g her. He
her to bury bis body. Tho letter closed with a
wall that she wouldn't have had TO bury him
II she Ind treated him with more considera-
be crema,cd. and 10 the Cor oner no wrote: l}o
So kind as TO inform my family r. quickly "a
possible. by Tomorrow shall DO no more q
burden TO you RESPECT my wishes and do not
10 visit the grave OF n EAli.mUrdoTer." In still
another letter found In his pocket he wrote:
d. not desire noher my friends therefore give
she Tor my smh dcstitutlon has compelled ne
do This act. have found CUT that have two sides TO
tlmeA am 'iabeto hrtng best friend into trouble
aud therefore desire that my body DO handed over 90
respect my last wishes don't want my children TO
20 I" my grave. be KIND enough to shield my family
Mrs Kummerle said she would probably
give tho body to q medical college.