New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-24
THEY TOOK THEIR OWN LIVES.
JAMES G. ARMSTRONG SHOOTS HIMSELF.
HE HAD ONCE BEEN SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
MAN-ASoTHER MAN HANGS HIMSELF,

HE HAD ONCE BEEN A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
MAN-AxoTHER MAN HANGS HIMSELF,
LIKE HIS FATHER.
James G. Armstrong who regarded as sue
cessful business man in this city a year ago killed
himself at No. SO West Twenty-sixth-st YESTERDAY
He hired a room in the house which Is occupied oy
DR.. L. c. Vincent. about four months ago. Dr. Nlh-
cent was away at 10 80 a. m. yesterday wheh
Armstrong shot himself in the head standing in front
Of a mirror in his room Women in the house heard
the shot found him senseless the floor and called
In physician, but he died few minutes after noon
Armstrong forty-eight years old and unmarneA
Until year ago he the senior partner In the
Autograph firm known Armstrong, Korh Co., az
Liberty and Trinity Place, but trouble among the
partners caused them to have the business sold at
auction in order to Armstrong; retirement from
the firm which Is now Korff Brothers Co. He began
work as a clerk in the Autograph business twenty
years ago and soon became known as shre"d man
Of affairs. After he became the head Of frm nc
lived at the Astor House at the Hotel brunswick
most of the time and went to Florida for the benefit
Of his health every winter.
since his retirement from business on his own &C
count he had done some work soliciting agent for
KLEIN. Linder Boyer Of No. 10 Warren-st, but his
income WAS small in comparison with what 1t had
baen His contract as agent expired Oh saturday ana
he Was without employment when ne communion
suicide He drank liquor freely In recent years anu
in the early part OF this week he apparently tred 10
drown his troubles In drink. He left two orlel ho''
addressed 10 +. Z. Van Lew, OF NO 81 bfodu""s'
sing sing ~ Y One of them read; Inc o@,
tender at the Gedney House has my watch upon "nio
he advanced me 81" The second ran: Il nave i0i'
some portraits at Johnsons store, on Brcaa"as eooso
Thirty-afth-st No advance on them. sen e'ef'
thing and keep proceeds ,ou,o.orr
Armstrong owned a plot In GREENWOOD Ceni''o4y
and his friends will have his body buried there- "
:. believed that he had no other property.
A Park policeman yesterday found the Don, % "
man. who had evidently committed suicide h@ne'l.
, the us ~ of tree near near Riversee paA'G Ia
nUe b'rnd neteenthst. At the Morsu9. 1870
in The day the body was identlhed a. t1' "a In his
WargCId thirty four years Old. oaher. , ~
nocfets were found a dgebOok OF OsrIhnn d due
III = cc+y AT No. 52S rast EeVehbl-e1 aS y, st
J ton the society addressed TO 10 81 SlAt I'd NJ
There N was learned that Margold hau Hot,raH aid
tnr the last three months. Mrs Eva Iiao Ijr, ont
that he had not paid his rent and she Sti, IN Ger
a week ago MargOd's father hanged hT tortuns
vnanv tbree wears ago, AMI left MN snan - him
IIts mother died shortly afterward anu e-SE D bers
1000 He came TO this COUNT J, ana altI no esnent
f,r months married a widow WIN "hV IN I'D had
b, money freely It was not long lore T ren
- N ro,y On his fortune. When ne IOuIu i11 nd
ees no went 10 work, but soon began uIlnhe e-st
hhca1,e dy1nka~d His wife left him. anu Ine lie
US-s HacAman know OF him for week "Ns ""0H SUI
was fold Of his death yesterday.