New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-23
N INSURANCE MANS CRIME.
,c KILLS HIMSELF IN HIS FATHERS
PRESENCE.
-,,crous FERvoR HAD DEPRESSED HIM-Ms

..r,,crous FERvoR HAD DEPRESSED HIM-Hs
ACCOUNTS ALL RIGHT.
rs-.,s r Wright agent of the Equitable
= assurance Society, committed suicide at
~. m. Yesterday at the home of his father,
ss,sa ST. Felix-st, Brooklyn, by shooting him
~ ~. ), the right temple. He was thirty-fve years
- and with his wife and one child lived at No.
ss' ~ uaconst.. Brooklyn. His father is Samuel
ns.,,h general agent Of the Massachusetts, Mutual
We Insurance Company, who has an office in
ywafk. \. y. w.,u,. ..u.s
~. totb.t's house with his son Alfred. ten
.a He sat down in the parlor and talked
t;e father. complaining that business was
- lively as it should be- and that he was
,ss FEELING well ,s
=. ,haf business would improve. After time
=. .on went into the back parlor and sitting
-, wrote a letter. This he handed to little
,..h,,y and told him to take it TO his grandfather,
n. uss in the front room. In it he said that ne
~. ,,red ef life. The father at once went into
=. h.ck parlor and laughed at his son. He told
I'm 10 get over bis dependency. He talked
g. ,ninntes and the young man appeared to
..ov,r his good spirits. The father turned his
s.rk and crossed the room TO gas
:, intending to burn the letter before his sons
eyes
Inst as he had touched the letter to the flame
!. h..rd a pistol shot, and turned around to see
II, can fall acrosS the sofa with the blood stream
-, ,rom his temple. He was unconscious and
A,.a almost Immediately. DR.. Charles L. Bon
III a, No. 3 Hanson Place, was summoned, but
..,1d do nothing Mrs. Wright was at once
s,ousbt 70 her father-in-law's house. She was
,..s.r,tea. and last evening was in a semi-uncon-
sciOus condition
Wrisht's family history has been somewhat
mixed This woman is his second wife, The
,.u;lr refuse to tell her maiden name Her given
,sms is Arssnia, and she is twenty-five years old
F.rrn Years ago Wright was married by the
p.x Or. NJ Buckley, then pastor of the Hanson
plar Methodist Episcopal Church, at
that church, to woman prominent in
BROOKLYN society, whose name her friends
refuse 10 divulge. Two years after their mar
riaee she obtained separation from him, and he
was compelled 10 give bonds TO support her
He failed 10 do this and went West. About five
vears ago he returned and on newly discovered
evidence his wife obtained a decree of absolute
divorce against him. She is now married TO a
physician living in the Eastern District. Wright
married his second wife almost Immediately after
the divorce was granted. and lived with her and
the first wife's boy at the house in Macon-st.
1t is said that he had been deSpondent for some
time His acquaintance say that it is not likely
that his financial affairs at all disturbed beyond
the fact that business was not brisk enough to
suit him. He is said not TO have been in position
10 handle funds Of the Equitable Company. and
bis accounts are supposed 10 be all right.
The elder Mr.. Wright refuses to tell the exact
contents OF the letter which he was about TO burn
gyhen the SON fred the pistol. He thrcw it on the
ooor, and the paper was not burned. but a stupid
policeman who picked it up wrapped it about the
bloody revolver tslke them both 10 The Tenth
Precinct Police Station The result WAS that the
letter was so stained with blood that it was in-
possible 10 read it,
Z. p Ide. general manager of the BROOKLYN
md Long Island department. of the EQUITABLE
Life Assurance Society, said last night that
Wrights accounts were in good shape. He had
been laboring recently. Mr.. 1de said. under strono
eigous excitement and had become "crank. y