The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-02-22
HINTS FROM HOBOEHN.
Suicide Expert Crane on the
Memories of Morgue
Life.
ANECDOTES AND DEDUCTIONS
Germans Have a Mania for Self
Murder-Thre Men to
One Woman.

The discussion of suicides tarted by
Frank o. Cole two weeks ago, and con-
tinued in last Sundays edition Of TIE
JERSEY CITY NEWS. has been more or less
rife all the week. joe Noonan's recipe
for a painless death took the general
fancy SO much that numerous gentlemen
Immediately Initiated a felo de Sc accord
ing to his formula.
THE NEWS headline Hints for Hobo
KEN" also created good deal or talk,
and the standing of that place as sui
eide city was generally canvassed. The
fact seemed to be taken as correct that
self murder was uncommonly prevalent
up that way, and various theories were
advanced in explanation. One cynical
wretch said there was no need to search
for reasons for frequent Hoboken sui
cides They were In Hoboken, and chat
was reason enough, he said Another
ment IN the population was the cause.
He is probably right, for all statisticians
agree that meiancholia and suicide are
more prevalent among people Of Teutonic
than any other race.
Mora ue-keeper Crane knows more
aDOAo Su1Ckdc tHdu duf ouS III IlobokHA-
perhaps than anyone In Hudson county.
He has had lots OF experience, not that be
has ever tried il himself. but because it Is
quite common among his patrons
calledson Mr.. Crane yesterday afternoon
and wooed him into cheerful chat upon
the lively topic of this article.
Suicides said he, "bless you Ive
seen hundreds of them, men, women and
well almost children, young and old, rich
and poor, gentle and simple, ugly as sin
and beautiful as angels. And, don't
know how il is, but when they're dead.
no matter how different they are in all
respects, there seems to be some resem-
biunce in them all Il almost looks as if
death set certain seal on them to mark
the way they went out Of the world.
Zone odd thing Is that three of the
most sensational suicides we have ever
had occurred in a house on Bloomfield
street, near Third. In this house about
fifteen years ago peculiarly distressing
suicide took place. Mary Brandt, young
girl who was SO handsome that her
beauty attracted attention wherever she
went, took poison because she had been
betrayed and deceived by married man
who lived on Jersey City Heights.
Ii appeared that the girl was en-
pioyed in a retail dry goods store
in New York. One night she
fiirted on the ferry boat with the man
who was afterward destined to cause her
so much shame and misery. 1t was the
old story of a loving and confidinG girl
and the designing man of the world. She
met him aud he escorted her to places Of
amusement all the time concealing the
fact that he was married. Finally he
accomplished her ruin and soon she was
compelled to resign her position in New
York. Her lover then established her in
a furnished room in the house on Bloom
field street and visited her there. One
- IL ~. L. mi
neighborS say they heard high words,
and it has since been learned that the
woman who called was the wife of her
betrayer. That night the girl did not leave
the house, and when the landlady went to
call her the following morning she found
the door locked. After the door had been
forced open the girl was found lying on
the bed unconscious. A halfempty bot
tie of iaudanum told the tale. The police
and physicians were summoned and to
this day they say that they never saw
more heartrending scene. The dying
girl was only eighteen years of age, hand
some and refined. She died bemoaning
her fate and praying to Heaven TO for
give her sin. The body was removed to
the morgue and was buried by some
wealthy ladies who had become interest
ed and touched by her sad story of suffer-
ing"
DOCTORS DEED.
"YOu speak of the suicides In this
house, Mr.. Crane. What were theyfn
asked.
sWelI, there was the case of Dr. Gels
Ter, who poisoned himself in the same
house about ten years ago. There were
a great many peculiar circumstances
leading up to the deed. DR.. Geisler was
one of the most successful practitioners
IN Hoboken. He was married and had a
happy home. 1t appears that railroad
conductor who lived on hurry Hill at the
time had a young and pretty wife, whom
DR.. Geisler used TO visit professionally.
The conductor was exceedingly Jealous
and believed that DIR. Geisler was intimate
with the woman. To satisfy his suspi-
cion he employed a constable TO watch
the couple. This constable afterward
proved to be an unscrupulous scoundreI.
One day he watched the house. and saw
DR.. Geisler enter. He hurried to Ho
boken, had warrant issued by doing
some tall swearing, and arrested the doc
tor. OF course the doctor was bailed
shame aud disgrace and the publicity of
his arrest, aud couple OF DAYS later he
was found dead in bed in the Bloomfield
Street House. He had poisoned himself
1t has since developed that there was
nothing criminal between Dr. Geisler
and the woman, and that the constable
had sworn falsely. The constable left the
State and has not returned.
The other suicide in the same house
was that of a Young man named Fred
holster. He shot himself through the
head. He was despondent and out OF en-
ployment
"A memorable case of attempted sui
cide,' Mr. Crane continued, wv as that OF
Druggist Amende of Washing ton street
Amende was singularly unfortunate.
About six years ago, doctor prescribed
quinine for the Misses Holz OF No 270
Hudson street. The girls were Gretchen
and Ella, eighteen aud sixteen years old
They were very wealthy, refined and edu-
Gated Que of them. / do not know
which, was engaged TO be married to the
doctor.
The prescription was sent to Amendes
to be filed and by a mistake morphine
was sent instead of quinine. The girls
took the fatal dose ana died. The affair
created tremendous sensation at the
time and when Amende learned of the
fatal mistake he attempted suicide by
poisoning. Antidotes were administered
and his life was saved. He was tried and
acquitted and 1 believe he sold out aud
went to Europe. He has never been the
same man since he mixed the fatal
doses that cuE of the lives OF these two
beautiful girls.
QUEER EXITS.
There are innumeraDle cases of sui
eide by drowning,' MIR. Crane continued
II remember also three cases where
death was sought in the Elvsian Fields
There was another man, do not remea-
Der his name, who crawied in a cellar on