New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-12
FARO LED TO SUICIDE.
A YOUNG WESTERN LAWYERS FATE.
GEORGE r. LAWRENCE, OF PITrsBURG, KILLS HIM
SELF AT THE EVERETT HOUSE.

SELF AT THE EVERETT HOUSE
Lesses at a gaming table probably caused George
h. Lawrence 10 commit suicide In the Everett House.
It Pourh-ave. and Sevcnteenthst. on Tuesday night
lie was q lawyer. of Pttsburg, Penn, hnelookins
man. thirty-two years DID, six feet high ana weighing
roe pounds lie to this city on October 10 to trans
sct some legal business and occupied suite Of rooms
On the fourth floor OF the Everett House lie went
down to wallst nearly every day and called on his
friend and former college chum, j. Edward Ackley'
Of the law firm of Foster e. Ackley, at No 80 wall
st. II his habit TO be absent from his room III
the hotel also part Of every night.
After he had been at the hotel few days he asked
The clerk Winters where he could get an opportunity
to play faro. Winters told him that 1t was alm'
cult matter for stranger in the city TO get aom'eo
10 a game. The clerk has said since then that ne
did not give card Of Introduction to Lawrence, pu' e
barkcepers at the hotel several nights recently hc'
Lawrence talk Of playing faro In John Days place III
Twenty ninth-st. The lawyer seemed 10 90 ueePn ''
ested In the game and Of his talk ndcat'o ta' nc
had lost heavily. On Que night when ne was II" VI,
bafroom at late hour, he spoke Of being pretty hau
oits Al another time he said he had been obliged
10 borrow several hundred dollars TO meet his losses
but he expected to get all the money back ana uo'e
with IT,
On Tuesday evening he sat in the reading-room OF
tho hotel two or three hours, apparently expecting
some one TO meet him there. An hour before mid
was letter there him. The clerk said there was
not
aThat is strange said Lawrence, al expected an
answer IN a note before this hour" Then he went
to his rooms.
Hall an hour before noon yesterday Mr.. Ackey
went TO the hotel and inquired for Lawrence. nail
bow was sent to Lawrence's room with Mr. AcRley'S
card and returned TO say that the gentleman if'd
zone OUT Mr. AcBley looked disturbed and said he
mad received all urgent note from Lawrence, asking
aim TO 90 TO the hotel Mr.. Ackley Insisted npoh
going 10 Lawrenco's ROOM The door OF the room was
locked ON the inside and the key was In the LOCK-
.suspectng some calamity, Mr. Ackey climbed up 70
the transom and looked into Lawrences bedroom
He saw Lawrences dead body lying on the bed fully
dressed. with a revolver clasped in the right hand
There WAS a bullet hole In the right temple, from
which blood had flowed upon the bedspread. Evi
IDENTIFY the lawyer had killed himself soon a''er he
went to his room Tuesday night
Mr. Ackey asked tina hot people to have his friends
body placed In charge Of undertaken, promising 10
inform Iawrences relatives of the sucide and TO pay
all expenses. messenger was sent to the Coroners
Office and Deputy Coroner Weston went to the hotel
The rooms which Lawrence had occupied were opened
in DR. Wcston's presence. There were no t"ees vi
disorder bus there evidence that the lawyer hau
eore about the work Of suicide deliberately. Snchins
I'm one corner of the mirror the dressing table were
two notes which he had written. One note was an-
dressed TO the proprietor OF the hotel and read as FOL
lows -. a. son,
Dear sir Kindly say nothing to newspaper M rato
The laid fact is all that is necessary ana uetas
NAV well be spared. What owe VIII De Gnec'iuir
end promptly paid uponpesentaon OF te S 70 civ
father George ID. Lawrence, OF Alonons.ne'a e.
Washington County, Penn. Do not the aey Sly "
reporters that my bin is unPsldnc fHurf AaWRENCE
On the other piece Of paper was written
Kindly notify ghe Hon. George d. Law mS nr
Gonongahela City, washington PITTS
paie' Anes"e"' 0'' GEORGE X. LAWRENCE.
A gold watch. 80 OF In change and some trhRe's "'
,maI, value were found in Lswrence's POCKETS III,
~. ,oor nossessiop of them and sent LawrenceS
hoay TO the undertakers shop at No 300 FOURTH ave-
the revolver with which Lawrence hieo Himself was 4"
bew selfacung weapon OF 92-cahpie' .a +.
AR Ac,ley' when seen by reporters in his once III
WALL e. Yesterday afternoon, expressed deep rosio az m
,enss suicide and said he knew Of no reason ior "e
- ho soia was young lawyer OF ability
and influence in Pittsburg, with fair praeu,e al" n
,,ortv ~ friends His reputation was such 'lat "o
sula easily have borrowed a thousand dollars lroh
sconaintanccs In this city. His father' "coIse ~
Lawrence is x-Sate Senator OF washington No"'''
p.nnsvIvania and q man Of wealth Young Lawrence
WIS happily married. his wife being oauei'ci Vi ~,
Charles shaw Of Pittsburg, mentioned IN one OF uo
notes tound at the Everett House. Lawrence came 70
tIs CITY on busire>s the nature OF which ne dio no.
Gambling or about being In financial dilcui'es, n,e,
After LawIence's body was sent IRON 'he , hG'e'
yssterday his trank. containing supply on eiolinS,
krnved there having been sent from pIttsDuig os
sxprss at his request. Evidently Lawrence naa ED
$1,000 td remain In this city weeks longer anu
lad not contemplated seEmurder when nc sent ior MS
trunk His relatives were Informed 81 his deuui yes %
terday and were asked 70 telegraph tef oroe'' Us
''1 ,ttpt,1rS Nov il (speeal)-Georgc r. Lawrence
was I. weil-known attorney here lie went u Ne"
York three weeks ago important legal .usi.ess'
Hs law associates NeSsrs. MaGl. Wsir,rt ana bwlhs
expected him back every day, as they haa hqt neuu
from him for nearly Il week, and supposed thai uie
bnsncSs was about concluded They were greatly
Alarmed and shocked when thy heard OF MS dealh'
Lawrence was born in Washington County thirty
three years ago. lie was the son OF u " Lawrence
~ NonOngahela City, who has been In b0th SOh-
Srees and The State scnat Lawrence studied law
Ind WINS graduated from the Philadelphia Law school
lie prartised Ia Washington, Penn, awhile, ana came
Ia Iiitsburg about SIX years ago Between Two ana
tbree vcars ago he married Miss Maggie shaw daughter
81 De- shaw of Pennsylvana-ave. Lawrence was
sncceSsful In his law practice, ana no cause othef
Than Siripess from which lie had suffered for over
a year is ascriled for his actton lie wa tall aha
roIIrst;ooking and considered the handsomest
man in Pitisburg.