Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-09
A PLACE OF SUICIDES.
BEAUTIFUL LOOKOUT HILL. MADE
FAMOUS BY WASHINGTON.

d Most New Workers know very little G
e Lookout hill in Prospect park, Brook
= lyn' except that they occasionally Sc
4 some mention of it in the newspapers
e One Brooklynite who was asked for in
! formation about it the other day de
scribed It as place where fools from
New York go to commit suicide some
times
( This description of Lookout hill i
{ hardly fair one. 1t is true. however
that for some reason men who want Il
commit suicide do somehow manage
very frequently to drift out to this part
of Brooklyn's big park 70 carry ont their
intentions. But they don't all of them
go from New York There have been
two suicides there 10y Brooklvuites The
two that preceded these, however. We're
men from New York. and OF the many
prior to these Brooklyn may be CHARGED
with the most Of them
One stormy, snowy day a well dressed
young man hired a cab in this city and
was driven rapidly over the bridge 10
Brooklyn and ont 70 Prospect park.
/ When the cab reached the city line the
young man got out and sent it back to
/ New York. Then he went into a saloon
near by, He left the saloon. entered the
park, walked through the driving snow
to the summit Of Lookout hill and there
shot himself
A policeman heard the shot, and found
the body Of the suicide still warm. but
he was dead. He had evidently intended
that there should be nothing cheap or
vulgar about the affair. for even the re-
yolver used by him was Of the most ex-
pensive pattern and make and had been
bought new for the purpose. He was
Identified as a Columbia college student
belonging to a New York family of ex-
cellent standing
REMARKABLE IDENTIFICATION.
The suicide before this was also that
OF New York man, and it attracted
some little attention at the time by rea-
son of the fact that there was a mix up
about the Identification of the BODY.
This had lain on the hill so long before
1t was found that it could be identified
only by the clothes on it and by the for /
nation of the body 1t was formally
identified at the Brooklyn morgue the |
morning it was found as the body of a .
New York printer, who had through
dependency, taken his life.
This identification was made bv two
members Of Typographical Union No. @
who had known the man Later that
day the body was again identified as
that OF a barber doing business on Third
avenue in this city, and this identifca-
ton was finally found to be correct
The most curious thing about this case
was the physical likeness of the printer
and the barber. The barber was de
tormed-that is, he had a club foot The
same was true. of the printer, and it was
the left foot that was deformed. as was
The case with the barber They were
physically alike otherwise. Then the
printers friends identified the clothing
he shoes and the hat and even a knife
nat was in the pocket of the suicide.
But the printer wasn't dead The
writer knows that. for he reported the
irst identification for an afternoon pa
'eri the second was made too late for
lotlce that day. and in about week
tterward the printer brought suit
gainst that paper for 500. 200 damages
or saying that he committed suicide.
lie didn't get the $4,000, but he did
rove to the satisfaction of all that he !
vas very much alive.
a HISTORIC PLACE.
But there have been any number of
ulcldes on Lookout hill Brooklvnites
re inclined to object to the use that is !
lade OF this picturesque spot, and as for
he Prospect park police, they more than /:
oJect. They constantly patrol the /.
elghborhood of the hill, and any lounger
bout there is sure to have very care |,
Il eye kept upon him by the bluecoated
of the park
Lookout hill is one of Prospect parks
picturesque and historical spots. It is a
Ugh hill looking out over the big lake
40 the boulevard, and is heavily wood J,
1 As point from which to view the '
grounding country it is unsurpassed =
rom Its brow you can see for miles in =
] directions. Coney island. Manhattan :,
each, and even Far Rockaway, are Wis u
lie to the naked eye. Flatbush and
her towns nesting down among the
ees, and the farms stretching out over u
lie level country, present a fine scene at :,
lis season. ~ ~
General Washington used this very :,
III to make observations from when he a,
as holding Brooklyn and watching for :,
lie expected landing of Sir Henry Gin o. q,
n on Long Island IL was from bara /"
AT the American generals watched 10
Iinton's movements when preparing for ~
10 disastrous battle of Long Island that =.
suited in the retreat of Washington to - r'
e heights above the Harlem and gave g.
ew York city into the hands of Sir ~ -
enry Clinton. y
The tide of battle swept all around the +, ~
Ii and in the green field below it good =;
God stained the sward. III
But times have changed. Battles are
u fought in the field below Lookout