The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-12
roI1cExAS COLEMAN KILLS HIMSELF.
Founa dead on Fost-Jones USED . Pistei,
Tee. mad Lynch Jumped Down an AirshaS,.

Found dead on Fost-Joues Usea a P,stol
Toe. mad Lynch Jumped Down an Air.haf,.
Policeman Isaac De Witt Coleman Of the
| West Thirtieth street station killed himself
| yesterday morning while on post in Seventh
avenue. between Thirty-eighth and Thirty.
ninth streets. by sending a bullet through his
brain. Thursday was what In police parlance
| Is known rs long day. for Coleman. He
| went on duty at noon and during the nfter-
noon patroed Madison avenue. between
| Twenty third and Forty.socond streets. At q
| o'clock he reported mt tho station house and
then went home to his supper He lived with
| his vito OH the top floor of the apartment
| house Mt 424 Amsterdam avenue. At 81,
| o'clock no returned to tho station house, and,
as his next tour began at midnight. went to
bed When the midnight squad turned out
Coleman was apparently cheerful and walked
| as far as Seventh avenue and Thirtieth street
with several brother officers.
Roundsman Shields left tho station house
about 3 o'clock to make his tour. Halt an
hour later no reached Coleman's post He
looked for the policeman. but couldn't find
him. 1t was 4:45 o'clock when the rounds
man. turning the cornerof Thirty. nth street,
| came face TO face with the truant officer.
well. Coleman. where have you been ?" in.
| CURED Shields.
/ Coleman looked dazed and did not reply, and
| the roundsman went on: Il have spent an
| hour looking for you Have you any explana-
| tion to maker"
Coleman didn't reply. but. after gazing in.
tenty at his superior for few moments.
walked silently away. Shields made up his
mind to report the mans absence from post.
and resumed his round OF duty.
| Thrce-luarters Of an hour later n pistol OF
rang out. and Policemen Crinnion and Me-
Gsiney House. lost no time in starting i ' for Tor
Seventh avenue They saw United States
Rsb rs sSe5 %h.n Ssy q
| corner into Seventh avenue they saw that the
mail wagon had stopped and that the driver
| =" I came pretty near running over him." ex.
| planned the driver as tho officers ran up. The
PROSTATE man was coleman, HS appeared to
| flowing from n bullet wound behind his right
| ear. Beside him lay his pistol. Hs was con-
veyed In a cab to the station house. and died
Coleman was appointed on tho force on Sent
station. where he had since been. He was re-
Complaints had been lodged against him.
tim q insomnia: It + THOUGHT that this. CON- 1
having complaint lodged against him Tor ab B.
sence from post. made him desperate. Cole
man married young woman from Pennsyl-
| living at 30 West sixteenth street, killed him.
| self yesterday morning by shooting himself
in the head. Jones was irregular in his habits.
and for the past three months had been out Of
| work and Respondent. Yesterday noon he
wSlke;d5, into tho Kitchen and said to his wife:
You'll have no more tEeu a, from me-" He
room; His vile. thinking king he was ceinE to
She hadn't been gone half II minute when She
heard THO report OF a pistol. Her husband was
found lying dead on the floor
Martin Lynch. a young bartender living at
1873 West Tenth street. plunged from the sec
| ond story window Of his home down the air.
| shaft and died instantly: Lynch worked in
! the saloon Of his brother Michael at 125 Mac.
| dougal street He was heavy drinker and
for two weeks had been confined to his room
| with delrium .tremens. His wife has been
| constant watcher at his bedside for the pa st
two nights. 1t was nearly 4 O'Clock yestordaY
| morning when she retired to get little sleep.
| She was awakened q few hours later by hear
| ing ono Of tho children scream. Rising. she
| looked around nj Tor her husband. but he had
shai I was open. and looking down she saw her
| husbands body lying in heap at the bottom.
| Lynch leaves four Young childfen.