The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-03
TWICE HE TRIED SUICIDE.
KRfELE COURTED DEATH ONCE FOR
sEvES AND A HALE HOURS.
Now He TIA. Blown Ont His BrHsns ne
cause BE WINS a Defaulfer-<n INC
O,ser Time and sum,sar1iy Dealt with.

So,v n. TIA. R,own Ont His Brains he.
cav.c BE WINS u DeTauIter-S'nuGht the
Other Time and snm,sariiy Dealt with.
Julius Krie,e. collector for Victor Nobis, deal
or I'm brushes at 400 Pearl street. committed
suicide In n room in the West Shore Hotel.
Eleventh avenue and Forty-second street.
somo time Thursday night By shooting MIN
self through the head. His dead body lay on
the bed with u bullet holo In the lett tempie
and tho revolver in his right hand when the
suicide was discovered yesterday afternoon.
lie arrived Mt tho hotel on Thursday. and spent
the evening In writing letter to his employ
or, IN which he said he had appropriated his
recent collections md had no way OF stavinG
Off detection, us his wife. who lives In Ger
mnnv refused to send him tho necessary
money.
On that account he wrote he had resolved TO
Kill him self. He owed money to no ono bht
Nobis, and. n after his death. Mr.. Nobis would
write to his sister in Germany his defalcation
would be made good. Tho letter. which was
In German. went on to describe a recent AT.
terpt Kriele had made to asphyxiate himself
with gas in the Occidental Hotel substantially
rs follows:
At o O'Clock ono night nxed rubber hose when
had bought for the purpose 10 one OF the burners IN III!
room and pnt the other end IN my mouth la,d re.
yolver which ! had also purchased on the table, IN
tending to XII myself with 1t In case the gas shouahos
tax. enect. For T4 hour. lay with that pipe In my
mouth. continually swallowing the gas. DAT somehow
or other conldnt die. Then got weak In the atom
arl and my heart and chest became cra,nped ana
drawn together. I began TO shake. and the sweat
came pouring out all over me. failed In my
attempt because somebody smei,si the gas. and she
.na 1, NJ. FROM snGS ~. S %c
IL" esould%T walk. il. '" ''''
The letter adde, that he had bought the re.
y9vsr WITH which he nad X b nsmss sr out ..
Ing for his room aud his dinner. he had but 10
MI r. Noib;is. who was summoned to the West
Thirty seventh street station to, read the
dying message Of the suicide said that he had
m or ysnrs 81 EGs s nc
ss s SRn and Rs s SSGs was sent e hs
Kriel e lodged alone at 95 Tomrkins avenue.
Brooklyn. All his family is In Germany. He
sSn thS 90 he fa TO
to his employer. which. after all. was not
much..,
years ago at Frankfort. He was the son OF q
wealthy farmer and was educated at n school
where he made ths acauaintancS Of Bism M ok
came n soldier and attained the rank OF Cap
tain. During tho war he had supervislon over
which he Inherited from his father. who died
Mt about that Time. At the close OF the war his
two brothers. who had served with HI m IN the
army. became members Of tho Reichstag.
When tho Franco Prussian war broke out In
1870. Kriele again took up arms During this
war he conceived the idea Of establishing a
garrison on his farm IN Frankfort. The Mayor
OF the city sent him to bismarck. who told him
to GO ahead. He worked hard for nine months.
and then borrowed money from ma. Berlin bank AM
inaebted p' to "f eke bank In the sum d
$4,000. and an Investigation was pend:
ing. Lapke and the cashier conceived that
the best way out OF their difficulty was to
Gourmet: So they foreelosed on him. Kriele
lost his farm and all he had. and then came to
this country. He tried the candy manufnctur-
ing business and failed. and had another
failure. Then. about eleven years ago. he
Nobis says says he last saw Kriele on Monday
On Tuesday he received Il letter from him. In
which Krielo said:
When YOU receive this shall be ms good As deal IL
the occidental Hotel. H"wery and Broome street
room 10
Nosis sent his son to the Occidental at once
tube by his side and q revolver IN his hand
The proprietor OF tho hotel made such earnest
objections that Kriele was not arrested.
From there. 1t seems. he went to q hotel II
letter. In this he said that he spent Monday
night riding up and down town on the horse
ears. After that nothing important is known
about his movements until he turned up a
the West Shore Hotel.
Nobis says that he had $4,000 in ontstand
doubtless appropriated. He had good sal
III YOU gave him sl00." said Nobis. he