The sun., 1891-06-11
COULDN'T WAIT FOR DEATH.
ROBERT sTRICKER WAS WE'LL TO DO,
BUT WAS "NOT MADE TO BE HAPPY"

ROBERT sTRICKER WAS WE'LL TO DO,
BUT WAS "NOTMAD TO BE HAPPY"
! A. Iron Worker breaks y Razor Hacking
| His Throat and wrist-fhotoErspher
Hicks Jumps Down Air shaft-Mc-
| Donough was Haunted by Spirit.
Twenty.soven years ago Robert Stricken. q
Swiss lad Of 49, came TO this country to mako
his fortune. His father was small manu-
facturer In st. Gallen. where Robert had
learned to be a furniture drauRhtsmsn. He
devoted himself In this country to architectural
drawing and twenty years ago he got place
| In the Building Department OF the Board OF
| Education. For fifteen years he was the CHIEF
| draughtsman there He had salary OF s21O0
| year. and he saved and invested enough In
| houses and lands In Morrisania aud East New
| York 10 mako him worth 100000.
Yesterday he killed himself. The news OF
his suicide was no surprise to those who knew
him at the Boards Offices In Grand street He
! had worked for the past Eve years under
Superintendent G. b. Debevoise. He was
crazy" Mr.. Debsvoise said when he heard
the nova For years he imagin sd'thnt ho was
| worked too hard. and that every one was try
ing to impose upon him. On April 2 he wrote
to Mr.. Devoe. Chairman Of the Building Com
mittee. that II his salary was not raised inn
mediately he would leave. He did leave. and
went TO New Orleans and the West. He got
back three wccks ago. Then he wrote to me.
saying he had teen III and crazy. and that his
trip had done him no good. He also wrote to
me afterward. asking me to help him in estab-
fishing business lie thought Of starting"
Stricken lived for fifteen years at $50 East
Thirteenth street. Yesterday he got up As
usual and went ont for his breakfast. Molly
Tciske. a maid. saw him return. He was
talking to himself That was an old habit
Of his. A little while afterward Nellie went up
stairs and found Mr; striekes lying On On, b hts
Roio @ in nj bis ;empie; lie mad stood in front q
mirror and shot himself in the mouth. and the
asd ssos s asna a .a mps @ g M
right hand was thrust across, his breast into
he a ont h. hS sad
The 70 IN was filled with trunks. books. in:
were a lot Of curious letters from one A. Frlcke
& GsssnSe NeT Jersey M bnpE v,, book 10. on the
in 4 OF sSSs und what may pe meant Tor u will.
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ss ss5 70 . s
or some other prsssnL
na He S s Che Of tho Fs
den. Eoks whose hos Letters al told him he
chren at ss East 4th str.e had p bsen
r Sa sus e GTe Mo, IN
?n the foor with blood running from cash il
hs sn Also @
the lsft wrist; Miller died H. before the M MnmhSui; hi
Ronnds which
broken; He had complained for two months
Of q pain In his head.
1,sO5 Third avenue tried, TO make living. in .
photoeraph gallery which mis- mother had fitted |
NJ lie gallery. This CAV. him more lime but
ever. eve to drink himself into 1t q inssni;y. At
O'Clock Yesterday morning Hiekss mother
hS s..
He .hIeE Nth the iamp down , IA the YES %yestib%ls and
as brse sso9.s
6is ieg was fraetared. He vas taken 70 tho
fs0s1sF? nay and key di. no " injured inter-
- Late on Tuesday night Lawrence Nc
sd As sss slss
bullet through his brain and died. He was
Ss e e spa. nSt
%ss !rse ssfs t D Ae saw
illusion on Sunday after a visit 6 his brothers
grave. but 1t returned again on Tuesday; That
took seat IN the pRrlor and shot himself;
Mrs. Amn boaee At
Tho 10i TSesdaS saI
learned from her but II 10 hardly possible that
she could have fallen. No reason for tho act
has come to light.
GhrI.topher s. Little OF Pottsville. Pa. com.
mittei suicide mt the American House at
himself. Mr. Little VA %as born at, Cowder Hall.
at Princeton College came to Pottsvile and
took the chair Of chemistry and natural phi
number OF years. He then became editor the
Mnsr's Journal end while engaged on the paper
the Schuylkill county bar In 1857. After bis ad-
mission he gave much attention to real estate
Of the New York Life Insurance Company. and
continued as such until July Of last year; when
BILE Life Insurance Company Of New York,