Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-01-15
A PLACE OF SUICIDES.
BEAUTIFUL LOOKOUT HILL, MADE
FAMOUS ~ WASHINGTON.


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Most New Yorkers know very little Of |
Lookout hill In Prospect park. Brook.
iyn. except that they occasionally - |
some mention Of it in the newspapers.
One Brooklynite who was asked for in |
formation about 1t the ether Az az |
scr1bed 1t a. place where s.fools frum
new York go to commit suicide some
times.-
This description Of Lookout hin q |
hardly 4 fair one. II Is true, however
that for some reason men who want r.
commit suicide do somehow manage
very frequently to drift out TO ftia pert
Of Brcoklyn's big park 70 carry out their
intentions But they don't all Of them
60 from New York There have been
two suicides there By Brooklyhites The
two that preceded these, however. were
men from New York. and Of the many
prior 70 these Brooklyn may be charged
Win tne most OF them
! One stormy, snowy day ! well dreesed
young man hired cab in this city and
was driven rapidly over the bridge %
Brooklyn and ont 70 Prospect Dark.
When the cab reached the city line the
young man got out and sent 1t back to
New York Then he went into q saloon
near BY he left the saloon. entered the
park. walked through the driving snow
to the summit Of Lookout hill and there
shot himself
A policeman heard the shot, and found
the body Of the suicide still warm, but
he was dead He had evidently intended
that there should be nothing cheap or
vulgar about the affair. for even the re-
volver used by him was Of the most ex-
pensive pattern and make and had been
bought new for the purpose BE was
identified as Columbia college student
belonging to New York family OF ex-
cellent standing
REMARKABLE IDENTIFICATION.
The suicide before this was also that
OF New York man, and it attracted
some little attention at the time by rea-
son Of the fact that there was mix up
about the Identification OF the body
This had lain on the hill so long before
it was found that it could be identified
only by the clothes on it and by the for
nation of the body 1t was formally
identified at the Brooklyn morgue the
morning it was found as the body Of a
New York printer, who had. through
doSDondeucy taken his life
| This Identification was made by two
members of Typographical Union No. g.
| who had known the man Later that
| day the body was again identified as
that of a barber doing business on Third
avenue in this city. and this identified
ton was finally found to be correct
| The most curious thing about this case
was the physical likeness of the printer
and the barber The barber was de-
! forlned-that is, he had club foot The
same was true of the printer. and it was
| the left foot that was deforned, as was
the case with the barber They were
physically alike otherwise. Then the
printers friends identified the clothing,
the shoes and the hat and even a knife
that was in the pocket of the suicide.
But the printer wasn't dead The
writer knows that. for he reported the
first Identification for an afternoon pa
| per; the second was made too late fol-
notice that day. and in about a week
afterward the printer brought suit
| against that paper for SEQ 600 damages
for saying that he committed suicide
He didn't get the $4,000. but he did
| prove to the satisfaction of all that he
| was very much alive.
L HISTORIC PLACE
But there have been any number o.
suicides on Lookout hill Brooklynites
are inclined to object to the use that il
made of this picturesque spot, and as 70
the Prospect park police, they more thai
object They constantly patrol tn
eighborhood OF the hill, and any lounge
about there is sure to have very care
full eye kept upon him by the bluecoate'
guardians of the park
Lookout hill is one Of Prospect park
picturesque and historical spots 1t is
high hill looking out over the big lax
and the boulevard. and is heavily wood
ed. As point from which to view tn
surrounding country it Is unsurpassed
From its brow you can see for miles i
all directions Coney island. Manhatta
beach, and even Far Rockaway. are Wis
ible to the naked eye. Flatbush an
other towns nesting down among til
trees, and the farms stretching out owe
! the level country, present fine scene
this season.
General Washington used this yer
hill to make observations from when b
was holding Brooklyn and watching fe
; the expected landing of Sir Henry Clii
!, ton ON Long Island 1t was from bel
, that the American generals watche
o. Clintons movements when preparing Il
: the disastrous battle of Long Island thi
: resulted In the retreat of Washington
a the heights above the Harlem and gay
/; New York city into the hands OF 5
! Henry Clinton
The tide of battle swept all around Il
: hill and in the green field below 1t Cox
: blood stained the sward-
n But times have changed Battles q
Il still fought in the field below Looko
O hill-the sham battles of the Brook,
o militia And the hill itself is no long
+ visited by great generals Those W
Il want to commit suicide gothere instea
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