Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
FOUND DEAD IN BED.
A Young Frenchman Utilizes the
Gas Burner to End His Life.
COOL PREPARATIONS FOR DEATH.
The Suicides Last Letter a Strange Jum-
Bile Of Sentences.
HE BEQUEATHS HIS BODY TO SCIENCE.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPArcH.1

| ASBURY PARK, n. j., June 14.-A hand
some young Frenchman, who registered as
Eugene ST. Cyr, was found dead in room
No. 118 of the West End Hotel this morn
ing. He had deliberately ended his life
| by asphyxiation. The body was discovered
| by Alice Rhodes young and pretty cham
! bermaid As she was making her rounds
| on the second floor she smelled gas and noti-
fled j. S. Ripley, the proprietor of the
hotel He thought there was leak in the
pipes and turned the supply off at the
meter. The chambermaid was surprised to
find key on the inside of the lock Of room
11S, which she thought was unoccupied. She
pushed the key out with hairpin and then
unlocked the door with her pass key. As
she opened the door huge volume of gas
rushed out into the hall On the bed lay
dead man.
The girl ran down stairs, screaming with
fright. Mr.. Ripley ran to the room and
then summoned DR.. Samuel johnson. The
dead man lay on his left side and looked as
if he were in deep slumber. Dr. johnson
examined the body and said the man had
undoubtedly been dead for some hours. The
gas burner was turned on full force, but was
unlighted. On the bureau was a bottle
half filled with mucilage Strips torn from
newspapers had been pasted over the cracks
around the window, door and the transom
over the door. The towels from the wash
stand had also been used to stop up the
transom.
Complete Preparations for Death.
The dead man was attired only in his un-
derclothing. His coat, waistcoat, trousers
and shirt were neatly piled on a chair at the
side of the bed. Near the bottle of muci-
lage on the bureau was a small blank book.
About dozen leaves had been torn out.
The book contained the following letter:
I had intended to make something ex-
traordinary out Of it, sending my farewell to
life to a morning paper, and reading it the
night of my wedding. The more unconscious
nature had intended to make It in the cor
rect place la morgue, but l content myself
with only mentioning these aims to some
thing higher How felt to-day during the
preparation, like a girl dressing for her hrst
bail. l would not have disturbed your pleas
ure. myself don't take it very seriously,
and hope you will forgive me. But fed are
hours Of life. Smiling will 1 die. surrounded
by music and sympathy, as l was not al
lowed to live AS to the main cause, sne
send my last farewell. Farewell, my lily
EUGENE ST. CYR.
Bequeathing His Body to Science.
On the next page it said:
My body 1 wish to be disposed by DR..
Schweiz, 26 East Twentieth street, for
scientific purposes. No heartless priest must
be troubled for my sake. intended to shoot
myself in the Garden Theater, but changed
my mind and think this way better. hope
you are considerate enough to like 1t.
Standard mysterious suicide. No average
one.
On the bureau was a cheap ive-chambered
revolver of 80 caliber. The suicide was
about 30 years old The body was taken to
the morgue of Undertaken Sexton and
placed in an icebox. The person who last
saw the mysterious young suicide alive was
the bell boy of the hotel, who took him a
pitcher of ice water at IL o'clock last night.
He thanked him and said Goodnight" as
he took the pitcher.
The suicide arrived here on train from
New York about o'clock. He seated him
self on one of the benches in the depot
platform and stroked his short beard care
1essly as he watched the arriving and de-
parting passengers. When Undertaken
Sexton and his man came to the depot with
box containing body, the suicide closely
watched them as they took it from the
wagon and placed it in baggage car.
No Clew to His Identity.
AT 9 O'Clock he went to the West End
Hotel and asked for room. Clerk Brown
assigned him to the room in which he was
found dead After he registered he went
into the reading room, where he stayed
some time, reading a novel. The suicide
caused intense excitement among the guests
of the hotel In the reading room Mrs.
Ripley found copy of Edmond DeAmicus
novel, "Konstantinopel. Alongside of it
on the table was a sheet of paper on which
the dead man had written this verse:
When death these mortal eyes shall seal,
And still this throbDing heart;
The rending veil shall then reveal
All glorious thou art
The body was viewed at the undertaker's
establishment by many persons, but none of
them had seen the dead man before his ar
rival here to-day. Chief of Police Baily
telegraphed to Dr. Schweiz, but up to late