The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-23
CURIOUS SUICIDES.
HISTORICAL DEATHS THAT HAVE
BEEN SELF AFFLICTED.

! StHLItHidn WHO Is well II p OD the SQOl6ci
of suicide, who has made it life study al
most. he impaired to me some facts sha,
| were startling. There are many who saJ
that none but towards commit suicide
| while others insist that it requires nerve
| and bravery to suddenly terminate ones
| own existence ard enter into future state
| that Is paradoxical as to its being Soms
| neG who commit suicide are brave. others
are towards and do not dare to face mis-
| fortune. / think they are about evenly
| divided. 1t is disease in many instances.
! \ work devoted for the most part to
| statistics On suicide was at hand, and it
showed many Interesting facts concerning
! the subject under consideration. From it
| the fact was CLEANED that the United States
| is considered an AL country in which to
| shuttle off the mortal coil. Here the ratio
! is to every 500 inhabitants, while in gay
| Paris it is to each eco, and in smoky
| London and chilly St. Petersburg to each
| 81 coo of population. In ali Russia, how
ever, the ratio is as to 81, 246; in Sweden,
l to o., ,3775; in Saxony, l to SAG.
In 1.-The winter of our discomfort" there
are decidedly more suicides than in the
summer time, and majority of them &C.
cur in the morning. Women appear TO
nit suicide where one woman takes her
own life, and the ratio is much smaller in
married life than in widowerhood. The
early part of the week claims more sui.
cidcs than the latter part, and the early
part of the month more than the waning.
DEATHS AT NIAGARA.
In any one particular part of the United
States Niagara Falls has the call, and there
n M Z hat
find a last resting place at this suicide
suggesting resort. Suicides are so COM
mon nowadays that the subject would not
be worthy OF extended comment were it
not for the fact that the means used to AS
sure the desired result have in number
OF cases been so remarkable.
The pistol, poison aud the rope are gen.
orally used in solving the great problem,
and these are so frequently used by the
man OF woman tired of life that unless
there IS some romance connected with the
suicide or-unless he or she may have been a
distinguished person very little space il
vouchsafed the story in the daily newspa-
pers. Here are few of the remarkable
ones which have caused excitement during
the past score of years or so and which are
remarkable for the exceptional reasons
above referred to.
TWO WELL REMEMBERED DEATHS
Twenty years ago there was probably no
man better known among gentleman
drivers" than Mort Tunison, whose famed
hostlery was on the old Coney island road
Mort was known from Coney island tc
Canada as jolly host and good fellow
His hotel was the stopping place, and Mort
grew wealthy. Suddenly the park com
missioners determined to construct a new
2l0 foot boulevard about a quarter of
mile west of Coney island road. Mort
kicked. The commissioners urged him tG
move his hotel to a new site on the pro
posed boulevard, but he wouldn't have It, !
He said that his place would draw the |
crowds boulevard or no boulevard The !
new parkway soon became a fact, and new |
hotels sprang up all along its line The |
old Coney island road became deserted |
One by one Mort's old customers left him |
as the new road was beauty and was just |
built for trotters.
Mort had plenty Of opportunity to get in
the swim, but he was contrary and wouldn't |
take advantage of it. One fine morning !
Mort didn't appear at breakfast as had
been his wont. Investigation proved that
be would never appear at breakfast in this
world again. During the night or in the
early morning hours he ha5 committed
suicide. His old friends had left him, his
famed hostlery had become desoIate and
life had become burden to him
The suicide of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt
was an exception to the rule because oi
the fact that his name was world known
He was a son of Commodore Vanderbilt.
He had become spendthrift and in March,
1880, he shot himself through the head in
his room in the Glenham hotel in this city
Financial troubles were said to have been
the cause of the deed Several times Com.
modore Vanderbilt had been called upon A
pay his sons debts and he finally became
tired of so doing. When the commodore
died he left young Cornell the interest oi
100000. Cornell also received large sum
to withdraw from the contest of the com
mcdOre's will. These amounts he soon
and he died almost penniless
AN UNCANNY SUICIDE.
Another case OF interest at the time OF
its occurrence was that OF Nine. Restell. a
malpractitioner, who was one of the
wealthiest women in the country her
wealth having been accumulated in her
practice. She owned and occupied pala-
tial mansion on Fifth avenue. One morn
lHS She was 1Ound GcdU III ner D2t0tuD, ,
and few sorrowed, as she was said to hold
many secrets concerning scandals in high
life which died with her.
Probably the most uncanny suicide that
the newspapers were called upon TO report
the facts of was that Of Philip Truschel, .
which occurred in Clarkson street. Fiat
bush, /. l., in the summer of 1880 Trusche.
was employed by his uncle. Louis Schmutz |
who was florist in the village named. p
IruSchel became despOndent and frequent
Iy threatened to take his own life.
One morning as the other employees en-
cred the greenhouse they smelled an odol
Is if of something burning. Upon investi
eating they found Truscbel with his body
redged half way through the furnace door
Ssy. His head and part Of his body were
burned away. He left letter
INVITING those of his friends who were as
unhappy as be had been to do as he hao
lone.
In 1880 Paul Hines committed suicide ir
AXE Michigan in q novel way, which
howed that he was determined fellow
n order 10 guard against rescue he tied a
lie preserver 10 his feet 50 that ne would
'e sure to float head downward and thus
rown before assistance could reach him /
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