New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-13
THE VAN ZdNDT SUICIDE.
\ DELIBERATE ACT, DUE DIRECTLY TO FL
NANCIAL TROUBLE.
VAN zANDT CRIPPLED BY THE RESULT OF
LAWSUIT OVER THE BLUE BIRD NINE
HIS LIFE IN CALIFORNIA.
;By TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE

HIS LIFE IN CAldfOhNlas
;By TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.
San Francisco, March 1.-The van
Zandt suicide has caused much talk nero
today by the publication of mass OF FACTS
from intimate personal friends OF the dead Nioh-
tana mining-man, showing that his dcath was
duo directly to financial trouble, and that neither
Tie Grip nor any other bodily ailmcnt had anything
10 do with his suicide. The facts arc that Van
Zandt was crowded to the wall, and that when
hc failed to ret assistance from his English rela-
tivcs he calmly took his own life Inc van
Zandts came here first early in May, 1887 They
rented the Richard Burke property, only quar-
fer or a mile east of tie village of Menlo Park,
having therefor $3.50 a month Among their close
nrighbors were John T. Doyle. j. A. Donohoe, the
StanforCls. IIopnses, Athcrtons, Selbys and other
leading San Francisco families, Who have resi-
dcnccs in the San Matco Valley.
Van Zandt was an intimate friend OF John
Nackay. and they frequently took dinner tcgcther
in The city. When Henry NJ. Stanley was here
his wife. Dorothy Tenant Stanley, who had
known Mrs Van Zandt intimately when the lat
ter was Miss Lubbock, visited her, as did others
Of the Stanley party. The married life OF the
Van Zandts was unusually happy. Van Zahdt
took his wife frequently on trips to Butte, Mont
When he was away on business it was his custom
TO telegraph every day to her, and she replied py
wire
Everything Van Zandt touched turned to gold
till Inc fioated the Blue Bird mine and soId us
stock i'm London He had made fortune out Oh
if: but in running it for the English company he
driftcd into the property OF an adjoining mlhe
and the courts held that he must pay S2oo'ooo
damages Van Zandt paid SsOooo In
cash and gave his notes for the
balance These notes were due on March
. Two days after other attachments FOR S'"'-
coo had been levied on his New-iork agents ana
the day after Van Zandt had put bullet lh'o
his brain Van Zandt left here for Butte lSso
month lie went to New-lorl, and from there,
on February Is. he sailed for London Ills WIG
received cable message every day from fepruafN
oo to % Some Of these dispatches told her Oh
his straits for money, but none oi thein hli'e"
al suicide Attachments were levied Oh fepruarS
90 for 500. 600. William c. DedrclIson. of No.
A3 Exchange Place, Newlork, van nahut
law. cabcd the news to Van Zandt.
The latter got that cable late at night, ana DE-
fore morning he lay dead By his own hahd'
Iy,orc x ma positive evidence that Van Iandt APP
pralcd to Sir John Lubboc< for help; but this Is
ti sunncsition of his friends here. and 1t Is Dorilc
,ut hy the extreme care which the Lupoock
family took 10 conceal tnr fact OF 'nc sun sun
for n whole week, ana lHch W "'"i'N
Zaudt's death Ia tic grip. . 49, -, -, emo
On Thursday Mrs. Van Zsndt' wi, win SSe SGe I"I haI
children left Menlo ParI; for the East She hau
d,micd Lorself 10 all visitors from the day shc
~. riycd th, news of her husbands death. Arfr
three days of silent agony, She admitted Mrs Tc F.
" Scby. who did her hest to console heri lI 10
H. SaIG, she said "Oh. ! had perfect happiness,
and n@w nv despair is terrible Mrs Van Zandt
oXrcctcd IT, meet her brother and party ni lron,
.Ynrl ~ Battle Mountain. New, and ,ransi ;,
,vith th,rr 10 Ncw-York. whence she VIII SAIL
direct France. -....