New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-20
KILLED HIMSELF on HEX BIRIHDIl.


4 YOrNG Man COMMITS SUICIDE WHILE HIS
WIFE i Ar THEATRE.
Unfortunate speculations in Wall Street or the
cfec, OF strong drink. perhaps both. caused LOUIS
A. Morganthal. a young Engiishman. 70 Kill himseit
I'm his room in the Graham House. at Madison-ave
and Eighty-nlnth-st late on Monday night, He was
the son Of a wealthy wine-merchant Of London. ana
was only twenty min" years old. He was married
10 a Young woman who Is said TO have fl6OVD in her
own right. yet he kuhd himself on the night Of her
twenty-second birthday.
Morganthal and his wife came TO this city from
London only a month ago. and hired rooms on the
third floor OF the Graham House They had no
children. To all appearances they were loving
couple and took delight In each Others company
They had been married about two years. Since his
arrival In IA" city Morganthal had spent much OF
his time about the stock Exchange. and he did
not appear to have any business except Specializing
In stocks In a small way. Occasionally he tel"?honed
his wife from wall street that he had made $40 In
some deal I'm stocks. lie may not have mentioned
his losses To persons at the hotel Morgantha said
that his wife was a daughter OF Louis Rientzen, a
millionaire diamond merchant Of London. who mad
made. his fortune a a part owner or the Kimberly
diamond mines In South Africa Young Mrs Nor
ganthal had brother In the city
Monday was Mrs Morganthars birthday. and her
husband had arranged to accompany her 10 the
theatre in the evening In company with Mr. Noeltz
a wealthy Englishman. who said 10 be- a guest
at the Hotel BartholdL In the afternoon. however
Morgantha sent "A message 10 his wne, telling h.r
that he would be detained and asking her 10 81 10
the theatre with Mr.. Noctz. She waited for nm
e Nh, hs hotr Hh dss s% a m Inc" she ana ME-
Moreanthal returned 10 the hotel an hour later
the the nrance q" quor ' ordered c bottle OF
wine, and was more taikatiye than usual while
another boarler TO drink the wine. lie went to
his room aho1t IL m Most OF hr w geT nary ' me
"a
heard by the might clerk and the elevator
boy who were duty in the office. They were
not disturbed by thu sound and did not suspect
at the time that pistol shot had ended human
IL was nearly an hour after midnight when Mrs.
Morganthal and her escort entered the hotel NJ, ar.
ganthal stepped into the elevator which carried
her up to the third floor. Tire elevator boy had re-
and the night clerk were startled by screams. The
two men Jumped into the elevator ana rode UP 10
screaming and tearing her hair In an hy5tericai
of their rooms to inquire the cause Of the commo,
ton Mrs Morganthal had found her husband dead
a mirror. There was bullet hole in his forehead;
from which some blood had howed ana IN his hanb
Somebody has murdered him" Mrs. Morganthai
exclaimed AZ she was led away to another room III
The men said that her husband evidently had
the Better to direct the bullet into his brain Mr..
Graham. the hotel proprietor. was called to tn
a
young Morganthal had been dead at least half an
hour He had partly undressed himself before The
shot was fired Coroner Mckenna went TO the
hotel and gave permit for the removal OF the body
by an undertaken early I'm the morning.
Yesterday Mr.. NoeltZ and Mrs Morganthals
wr at the hOi They sHd h hsy H9q ina
tentionally. He had no trouble that could have
made him desperate they said. and It was proba-
bic that he had shot himself BY accident as he was
examining the revolver The only possible eXplana-
tlon that the coroner was able 10 get from the U.S.
iracted widow was that young Morganthal was oc-
caalonay melancholy after drinking wine too
freely Mrs. Morganthal would not give any infor-
ma ton to other persons about herself but she said
that Inquiries might be made at the Somerset
House. In London She apparently satisfied
that her husband had not been murdered but she
said he could not have killed himself except by
accident.