Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-02-18
SUICIDE IN BROAD STREET STATION.
Young German Shoots Himself After
Allghting FROM a Train.

Young German shoots Himself After
Alighting From a Train.
Philadelphia, Feb. 10. = Charles
Vogel, u German, 25 years old, shot and
killed himself in Broad street station
this morning, after allghting from q
train. A ticket from Greensburg, Pa,
to New York was found on him and
papers showing that he had come here
TO testify in suit for a small amount in
which members of his family were in
terested.
Additional particulars are given by the
Philadelphia Times of on Saturday, as
follows:
Amid all the bustling excitement of
Broad street station yesterday morning, at
the hour when suburban residents were
arriving and hurrying to their places OF
business, a sharp report of a pistol was
heard and man was seen to fall upon the
cement pavement directly opposite the
bureau of information ON the second
floor of the big building. crowd gath
cred and the dying man was carried away,
and the curious throng strolled off moral
izing upon the uncertainty of life and try
ing to forget the disagreeable scene.
When the shot was heard Special Officer
Rusk and several attaches oil the station
hastened to where the suicide lay, and the
fast-stitfening fingers.
THE SHOT WAS SURE.
A tiny stream of blood was flowing
from wound in his right temple and
forming stain upon the hard floor.
Hastily summoning the Twentieth district
patrol wagon, Officer Rusk, with several
others, tenderly carried the unconscious
form below to the first floor, but ere they
had proceeded many steps their burden
gasped a few times and lay rigid in death
The body was removed to Undertaken
Goods establishment and search of his
clothing made. A naturalization paper in
the dead mans pocket bore the date of DC
tober I'd, 1888, and the name of Charles
Voegele, native of Germany, aged %
years. a railroad ticket from Greensburg
Pa, to New York city, $l2.S3 in cash and
q gold watch and chain were the only other
effects found. The suicide was well and
neatly dressed and appeared to be in good
circumstances.
HIS IDENTITY NOT KNOWN.
Of course, no reason for suicide can he
assigned but the coroner has tele-
graphed all the known particulars to both
Grecnsburg and Pittsburg in order to
ascertain whether or not the man has rela-
tives in either place No baggage WIS
found belonging to the suicide, but tele-
gram was also sent to New York to learn il
ms baggage had preceded him that point.
1t was learned at the station that the
stranger had arrived at the station shortly
after O'Clock on an east bound train and
he had loitered about the place, been in
the barber shop and stood around in the
corridor until the time when he took his
own life.
LITTLE PEDDLER's STORY
Probably the only direct eyewitness to
the shooting was a little peddler of matches
named Patrick J. Lawrence, who lives at
No. Al South Front street. The boy says
that lie was standing alongside of the man,
whose excited and nervous demeanor at
tracted his attention. The youthful OBJ
server describes the strangers countenance
as being contorted as though he were labor
ing under the most severe mental agony.
Presently the man drew pistol from his
pocket and believing that he was about to
be made the target of an insane man, the
match boy fled, and while he was running
he heard the revolver's report.