Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-04
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suiside of George X. sistare in New Yorl
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New YORK, July 2S.-At 1915 o'clock
this morning George X. Sistare, member
Of the firm of Slstare Il Bro, bankers, Of
No, is Broad street, committed suicide in
his room at the Manhattan Club by shoot.
ing him in the right temple with a 81
calibre revolver.
Mr.. Sistare was so years old and lived AT
No. Al West Seventy-tifth street. Deputy
Coroner Walsh has charge Of the case.
MURDER OR suIcIDEP
NEW YORK, July 2s.--2 p. m.-The fol-
lowing is published account of the
tragedy
The police of the Nineteenth precinct.
who were summoned Immediately after
the shooting occurred, are in great doubt
as to whether the case is one of suicide or
murder. but the latter theory is declared
absurd at the club.
| That the revolver was found by the
mans side and that the wound wasin that
| part of the head where one would natur-
| ally point revolver il he desired to kill
| himself, indicated that it was q suicide
! There are other things, though, which will
have 10 be explained before this theory is
established
The first thing the police did after their
| arrival was TO examine the revolver. Three
shots in all had been fired, according to
| the testimony of those who heard them.
There were three empty chambers,
| although a careful search in the room re.
| vealed no sign on the marble steps Of
| where the other two bullets had struck.
There are two sofas in the room, one in
each corner of the east or Fifth avenue
| side One of the bullets had lodged in the
sofa in the northeast corner Immediately
behind the door The other had struck the
easement of the wall near the other stair,
and had Clipped OFF n portion ot the
marble Of which the easement consists.
From the location of these shots the
police concluded that the man must have
held the revolver iii an exceedingly awk-
ward position. He must have been, they
contend, a very poor marksman to have
missed himself twice.
There are three persons who were in the
building and near the room where the
shooting occurred, whom Coroner Walsh
asked TO be witnesses at 1.-THE examination
They are Henry 5. Bonett of the Man
haitian Club, j. Arthur Cara Of No. IL;
West i4th street, and Thomas Hunking Of
No. ll2 East i2d street, who was doormar
of the club,
All of these men heard the firing anG
assisted the police i'll their examination,
Mr.. Sistare was not regular member o.
the Manhattan Club. He had, it is said
visited it but once before, in the company
Of a friend. For long time, his Friends
say, lie has been aling.
! Doorkeeper Hunking said that Mr.
Sistare had been in the habit Of drinking
but that he had not been drinking mucl
; of late, According to those who were il
! attendance in the hall this morning, h
walked in the building alone and wen
) deliberately into the room to the left o
: the entrance. Almost Immediately after
, wards the three shots fired in rapid success
sion were heard
| Mr., Sistare was tall man, measurin!
about > feet 10 or II inches, good lnokin
with n prominent forehead
The police examined his clothing il
I order 70 discover, if possible, some motiy
: for suicide some kilograms were founc
e but none Of them seemed to indicate tina
: the man was Ill any trouble.