New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-08
A BROKER TAKES HIS LIFE.
NORMAN CAMPBELL SHOOTS HrasEIp
HE is FOUND DYING IN PROSPECT pARR-nru,.
NESS TROUBLES SAID TO BE THE
CAUSE OF HIS ACT


CAUSE OF HIS ACT.
Norman Campbell. a stock broker. committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head at AS
p m yesterday in the playground of Prospecs
Park, Brooklyn. He lived at No l70 South
Oxford-st,, Brooklyn, and had an Office at No.
so Broadway, this city. Mr.. Campbell was /
member of the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum
Exchange, and it is understood that he took his
life because of business troubles, though Just
what the nature of the trouble was is not
known.
Park Policeman Mclaughlin saw a well dressed
man of middle age az tn southeast end of tho
playground at about 8: 80 p. m., hut paid no
attention to him. The man sat on the grass
he passed by, apparently in deep thought. About
fifteen minutes later Policeman Maxwell heafd q
pistol sh0t, and going 10 the spot whence tho
sound came found the man lying on the ground
inscnsible, with revolver by his side He had
fired a bullet into bis right temple, and 1t had
passed through the brain and lodged just beneath
the skin on the other side Of the head. Brook
lyn Hospital ambulance took him to the Seney
Hospital, where he died at 7:20 p m, before
any of his friends could be summoned He did
not become conscious.
When a Tribune reporter called at his home,
which is one Of handsome row Of old fashioned
wooden houses, he was met by young woman,
who courteously declined to give any information.
1t was afterward learned that she w0s the wife
of Mr.. Campbells son Dewitt c. 1t was also
learned that Mr.. Campbell had wife and another
son living. The neishbors knew little about tho
family They lived in good STYLE were devout
church-goers though to what church no one knew,
and were considered good neighbors. He had
lived in that house twenty-one years and was Q
remarkably onNal yyif "a
be highly cultivated
In the pockets of the dead man were found
papers which seemed to identify him. The nou
important read as follows:
Ny last wish and request to my wife is that b
cremated when dead, buried.
NORMAN CAMPBELL, 1o9 So. oxfordst
This was on small, worn piece of paper, and
its date showed that he had looked for sudden
death for long time. He also carried card of
Lodi Lodge, No. 345. F. & A. NJ, Of Lodi N. Y"
and set of pads showing that he belonged to the
Stock and Petroleum Exchange. He had only Is
cents in money and few Bridge and local rail-
road tickets
Soon after his death Mrs. Campbell with q rela-
tive of the same name, a midde.aqed man, went
TO the hospital to make arrangements for ths
funeral. There Tribune reporter saw Mr.. Camp
bell the escort He was reticent He said that the
suicide was due to business troubles, but refused
to be more definite When seen later in the evening
and asked if Mr.. CT mpbell was a relative of Mr..
Campbell, the Elm Place carpet deaIer who COM
mitted suicide in Prospect Park in February 1890,
he said No. He also said that the fomily would
not comply with the dead mans request to have
bis body cremated. In fact, he was just about
to make an as sreement with COrlfs, the undertskeY
of No. 702 Fultanst to take charge Of the funeral
He and the dead man were both Scotchmen.
Whether they were brothers not he would not
| say.
Mr.. Campbell is described as @ stout. fine look,
ing man, feet inches in height. who always
dressed well and wore gray mustache He waa
! ifty-eight years old.