New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-27
ALMOST EPIDEMIC.
MANY PERSONS TIRED OF LIES BURDENS
TWO MEN KILL THEMSELVES AND THIRD
TRIES TO DO so-A DEATH BY POISON


Julius Espcrs edit OF No. 45 Aabnma ave- bro h liz
committed sucide Yesterday morning. He killed him
self in front OF the of Ferdinand Jubl'z' Vi w.
2l75 Fulton-st.. whose daughter ne ioNeu' P
stedt was a German. thirty five years oiu' i'o yam
IN This country two wears ago and worked as n un'
smith He met Miss Annie Jnbl'z shortly al'er HIS
arrival In this country and fell IN loNc WIN "''
His attentions were not encouraged by the elrl ana
her family refused let him visit her. 10" nights
ago, he went to The young woman ho"i' All" UREA
TO force an entrance to the house Nh'h MIS-. J"DiH
opened the door and asked him what he wanted, he
,o,n,oa . revolver If her face. A warrant was
Ont for the mans arrest Thursday morning. but he
couh not be found. Yesterday MOI Mug he appeared
a, tho Jpbi,z home again. and when Miss Jubtz re-
fused 10 let him In lie lay down on the sidewalk ana
shot himself through the right temple.
In Esperstedt's pockets were found a photograph
NJ Miss Jubitz and a letter written in German. The
letter 1t was said. farewell 10 the young woman
1t contained a request that his body be cremated.
Esperstedt was well-known in the German circles
OF the Twenty-sixth Ward of Brooklyn. lie was
member OF several musical organizations.
HANGED HIMSELF TO WARDROBE.
Henry Bckel. a machinist living at No. 30 Bart
lett ST. Brooklyn. ended his life yesterday by hanging
hfmself to " wardrobe IN his bedroom. He was
thirty nine years old. lie had been drinking heavily
for some time His wife found him suspended by
strap and aroused the neighbors. Officer Kelly re-
sponded to the call and cut the body down. LIE hhd
been extinct for some time. Dependency, due TO
drink was said TO be the cause which led the man TO
take his life.
A BARBER CUTS THE ARTERIES IN HIS WRISTS.
Jacob Bochm. a barber. thirty -four years old. who
lived with his wife and children In the tenement
house No. 2.195 Second-avc tried To XIII himself In
his home yesterday morning because he had been so
Ill with asthma that he could not work at his TRACE.
He cut the arteries in both of his wrists with razor
and soon became unconscious from loss Of blood.
Mrs. Boehm gave the alarm at once, ana her heieh-
bors ran ont to call policeman and a physcinh'
one neighbor went after Dr.. Coombs, OF No. 10
East one hundred and twcnticthst but she returned
with the statement that the physician refused to at
tend the case saying that he would have nothing 10
do with suicide cases and advising that ambulance
be summoned. Another neghbOr found Policeman
Callahan OF the Harlem squad who ran To the house
and put practice the lessons he had learned AT
lectures on First Aid TO the Injured lie slipped
the leather thong of his billy over ore OF Boehm
wrists and twisted the stick until the blood ceased TO
flow from the wound. Then. with poker ana
handkerchief, he stopped the flow Of blood from the
wound in Boehm's other Wrist. When an ambulance
arrived from the Harlem Hospital the surgeon sara
that the policeman had done the work as we'll as
physician could have done It, Boehm was carried 10
the hospital. where 1t was said he had lost so much
blood that he would have hard fight for his HE.
EMMA PANzER's DEATH TO BE INVESTIGATED.
The death of Emma Panzer, nineteen years ola,
at No. 243 Cherry from the effects OF poison yes
terday morning. was investigated by policemen OF the
Madison-st station. who said that she probably had
taken an overdose OF carbolic by accident having
mistaken the poison for toothache drops Her
father John Panzer, harness SNEAKER. was distressed
greatly by her death and would not give any IN
formation as to the manner in which she was sup
posed to have taken the poison Dr. Henry SIN, OF
No 1854 Madisonst., wN called TO attend the girl
on Thursday night and found her dying. lie was In
formed that she had taken some carboic acid by
accident. She was then nsensibe, and he thought
she must have taken large dose OF the poison. He
Informed the police. The Coroners will make an In
vestgation.
HE SHOT HIMSELF IN THE TEMPLE
Lloyd W. Knowles, twenty-sx years old. OF NO
lo6 Wyckof ST., Brooklyn, killed himself In his room
last evening by shooting himself in the right temple
with a revolver His father, william T. Knowles Is
u dealer In satpetre at No. Isl Pearl-s New-lork,
and the a clerk in the employ OF his father
The body OF the found by his brother
Percy. The members of the family refused to say
whether they knew OF any for the young mans
act. He ate his dincr with the family and went TO
his room on the first floor An hour later MS brother
went the room and found Lloyd dead upon the