Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-18
A PLACE OF SUICIDES.
BEAUTIFUL LOOKOUT HILL, MADE
FAMOUS ~ WASHINGTON.

NIT suicido = Memories That Cluster
About the seishborhood.
Most New Workers. know very little Of
Lookout hill In Prospect park. Brook
Ivn. except that they occasionally see
.otne mention Of II In the newspaper
One Brooklyuitc who was asked for in.
formation about II the other day dc.
,rribcd 1t ~ n place where fools from
New York go to commit suicide some
times
This description Of Lookout hill Is
hardly fair one. II Is true, however,
that for some reason mon who want 10
commit suicide do somehow manage
very frequently TO dri4t out TO this part
Of Brooklyns big park TO carry ont their
Intentions But they don't ali Of them
90 from New York There have been
two suicides there by Brooklynitcs The
two tina, preceded these, however. were
mon from New York, and of the many
priof to these Brooklyn may be charged
with the most Of them.
ono stormy. snowy day n well dressed
Young man hired n cab In this city and
was driven rapidly over the bridge to
Brooklyn and out TO Prospect park.
When in. cab reached She city line The
Young man got out aud rcnt It back to
New York Then no went Into saloon
near by flo left tho saloon. entered tho
tarl, walked through tho driving snow
TO the summit OF Lookout hill aud there
fhot himself
A policeman hoard the shot, aud found
tho body Of the suicide still warm, but
be- was dead. He had evidently Intended
that there should DO nothing cheap or
vulgar about the affair, for even the ro-
volyor used by him was Of the most ox.
psnsiyo pattern aud mako and had been
bought new for the purpose lle was
identified as a Columbia college student
belonging to New York family OF ex-
eelloni standing.
, RfaARKAnfE IpEsTirtcATioy.
The suicide before this was also that
Of New York man, aud IL attracted
some little attention at tho time by rcn.
son Of tho fact that thoro was q mix up
about the Identification OF tho body.
This bad lain on tho hill 20 long before
Il was found that Il could be Identified
only By tho clothes ON It and by the for
nation Of the body. II was formally
Identified nj the Brooklyn morgue tho
morning II was found as tho body OF q
Now York printer, who had, through
dependency, taken his life.
This identification was made by two
members OF typographical Union No, O.
who had known tho man. Later that
day tho body was again identified as
that Of a barber doing business on Third
avenue In this city, and this idcntiica.
ton was finally found to bo correct.
The mos. curious thing about this case
was the physical Likeness OF the printer
and tho barber. The barber was de-
founed-that ia. he had club foot. The
same WINS true Of tho printer, and It was
the left foot that was deformed. as was
the case with tho barber. They were
physically alike otherwise Then tho
printers friends Identified tho clothing,
the shoes and the hat and even n knife
that was In tho pocket OF tao suicide
but tho printer wasn't dead Tho
writer knows that, for no reported the
frat Identification for an afternoon pa.
per; the second was made too late for
notice that day, and In about n week
atterwaid the printer brought suit
against that paper for 10000 damages
for saying that he committed suicide.
Ilo didn't got the 10000. but no did
prove TO tho satisfaction OF all that ho
was very much alive.
A nisroRlo PLACE.
But thoro have been any number Of
suicides on Lookout hill. Brooklynitca
afc inclined to object to tho use that IA
,,,,1a 90 shta ,s,tt,,.ans,a s,,,t au1 IA. a.,
the Prospect park police, they moro than
object. They constantly patrol tho
neighborhood Of the hill, and amy loungel
about there is sure to havo very caro-
ful eye kept upon him by tho bluecoated
guardians OF the park.
Lookout hill Is ono Of Prospect parks
picturesque and historical spots. 1t is O
high hill looking out over the big lake
and the boulevard. and Is heavily wood
ed. As point from which TO Wow tn,
surrounding country II Is unsurpassed
rom its brow You can seo for miles IN
MI directions Coney island. Manhattan
beach, aud oven Far Roekaway. are Wis
iblo 70 tho naked eye. flatbush ant
other towns nesting down among th'
trees, and the farms stretching out oyel
the level country, present fine scene a
this season.
General Washington used this very
hill to make observations from when h
was holding Brooklyn and watching fo
the expected landing OF Sir Henry Gin
ton on Long Island It was from her
that tho American generals watche'
Clinton's movements when preparing 70
the disastrous battle Of Long Island tina
resulted In tho retreat Of Washington 4
the heights above the Harlem and CAV
New York city into tho hands Of 81
Henry Clinton.
The tide Of battle swept all around tn
hill and In the green field below 1t goo,
blood stained the sward.
But times have changed. Battles ar
still fought In the field below Loolou
hill--the sham battles OF tho Broolslyl
militia, And the hill itself Is no longe
visited by great genomls Those VIII
want to commit suicide 90 there instead
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