The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-31
ONE MAN GONE, ONE DEAD.
4 VERY QUEER CASE IN GERLACR'S
BROOME SYREET HOTEL
Two strangers Came and Took = Room Ia.
9ether-Then One WAS Found sirsnxiea
nnd the Other Had Disnpprmred.

Two strangers Game and Took Room T~.
nether-rhen Que WAS Pound siranwieA
"nd the Other Had Disappeared.
On the southeast corner Of Bronme and Elm
streets Wendelin Gerlach keeps the Hotel Eur
Qurlle Its customers are mostly Germans,
and its accommodations are not exponsiva
Yesterday afternoon about 12I O'Clock two
men came there with an oilcloth grip and
carpet bag. Both were Germans. one about
50 years old and the other apparently little
ovor 20. The older man was tall and broad
shouldered and weighed In the neishborhood
of200 pounds. He had brown hair and nous
tache. and was comfortably dressed His COM
panion was shorter. but Of stocky build. with
light hair and clear complexion.
Tho strangers asked for dinner and were
served. Fred Newman. the bartender. gave
them two glasses Of beer. which they
drank. The older man paid for the
dinners and the beer. When they had eaten
they asked for rooms and Newman showed
them the front room on the third floor. There
are three single beds in this room. and the
younger man objected to the room on
that account Then Newman showed them
Il back room on the same floor In which there
were but two beds. in dingo nally opposite cor-
ners of the room. one Of them near the door
This room suited. and the older man paid
one weeks rent $3.50. He gave Gerach two
ore-dollar bills and two quarters. The two
men carried their things up to the room and
lay down on their beds. 1t was then about
half past o'clock.
Shortly after that thcy sent down TOR q rint
OF becr. and ii was sent to them In pitcher.
They had ono glass in the room and sent to
to tho bar for another. The older man paid
for this beer. as well as for all the other things
the two had had.
The last time that the younger man was
seen was when the bartender took this pitcher
Of hccr up to the room. About 3 o'clock
room TO remove, some, things which belonged
t. the lodger VINO mad previously occupied 1t.
lying on tho bed in, the opposite corner appnr:
emily asleep. hcdoor opens into the room and
IN tSa p ts {sy Of
looked into tho room the girl saw only the
rec hL Hsro;5 the sd room from the foot Of
f ds h TS. $Ssr into s,o,; snS.hss
ss closest stS nor hs%G
ran Gnnr over W th the toy # the door t. ra n the
hung down from this, nail. The cord was put
up by a previous lodger. who used It for .
the room, As sho looked in at the door. she
the nail in the door. His feet were doubled
up, under him. and AS he, swung back
TIN door, T% s lHF did h ne sec sss I'd
was banging on the cord. She thought no
I'll. dpTn tS nsx9 to b sSs
thst. The man wa was 70 tying e. to Ipb II;
h sailed GsrAsh: and The poiisse Tsrs sum sum
moned Policeman Porter Of the Mulberry
street station cut the body down,
j.. On his way to the station he saw an amhu-
m went WIZ him to Tie hotel rn9 whse
they got there her. the body according to the
hot" lad seen HIM eo aS fRe last time he Was
seen there was when the bartender took up
two ent RANGES to the stairway leading to. the
room the two men occupied
trance: Tho other is the main entrance to the
bar The men had come into the hotel by the
Neither Of them had ever been there befors.
or. 1t Is supposed. knew of the back entrance
They talked very lit! tn. Gerlach or Newman.
ana aila Giny SAID that they had come from More
Tho younger man wore small cap such ~
Geople in the hotol say that he looked like q
mo cord by which the body Of the olde!
his NJ th one seems ms to have
is, a deep mark on thc, neck. Under the chin.
Of the neck there is no mark. A slip knot. II Il
ran un high. would have made mark NIL
around the neck. Men who commit suicide
by hanging generally fix the rope with u rum
ming '.oos"
There was not thing on the body Of tbs
dead man. which would serve to identify it.
Even the lining of the hat and tho hat band
had cen torn ont
In his gripsack were found some unmarked
collars and II necktic. three coats and nine
knives The police say that eight Of the knives
arc fish knives. and that the other is pu,i-
ding knife. There was q white apron with
them which looked us il itmight have been
cooks apron.
Gerlach says that when tho older man paid
for thu dinners. he did it with one dollar bill
Gerach gavc him 5O-,ent place in change.
Tn. younger man picked uutlie half dollar and
as the two went up stairs they were wrangling
about il.
At midnight the Younger man had not re-:
turned to the hotel His luggage was still
there anil n policeman was waiting for him.
The police say that it lisa plain case of suicide.
1t WIS learned last night hat the man now
dead lad sspCnt II night ut the house OF Carl l.!
Mnrchc. 81 Broomc street. where he rereivede
letters under the name Of Alexander ODER and
exhibited Il check payable to Gustav Muller.