The evening world., 1893-10-25
STRAUSS A SUICIDE.
Manager of a Dry-Goods House
Shoots Himself
The Motive for His Act Is as Yet
a Mystery.
Blew Out His brains il His West
Broadway Store.

Nathan Strauss. New York represen-
tative of the dry-goods firm Of Levi
Strauss & Co., Of San Francisco. whose
headquarters were So West Broadway.
shot himself in the toilet-room of the
establishment at $50 A. M. to-day. and
died at 1919 P. M. in the Chambers
Street Hospital.
II there was any motive for the sui
cid it seems to be known only to the
relatives, and they guard the secret
carefully, denying even that they can
conceive of any reason why the man
should desire to enc his career SO alb
ruptly.
The dead man was thirty-five years
old. and lived with his wife and two
children in the Grenoble fats. at Fifty
seventh street and Broadway. He was
q nephew of the head of the firm, who Is
reputed to be very wealthy, and drew a
large salary, which enabled him to pro-
vide himself INC family with all de-
sirable comforts inc many %luxuries.
Domestic infelicity was a thing I'M
known In the Strauss household. the
relatives say. 1t vas a happy family
into which no diScord. as far as Is
known outside the Immediate circle, had
ever entered.
His accounts with the firm, too. SO It
was said an 10 after the shouting.
were found to be correct, and they were
in such a condition as to offer no sug-
gestion for a possible discrepancy.
Whatever. then, could be the motive
OF the young man with n happy home.
present needs supplied and bright pros
poets for future prosperity is a matter
Of conjecture.
The fatal wound was made in the
right tempt.
Strauss vent to the store at the usual
hour this morning. He was always
prompt and severely methodical in his
busine ss affairs. He vent to his desk,
attended to his mail, and at 9.2S went
into the toilet room.
He spoke to no one on entering the
store. This was not deeI.led at all
strange, as he had frequently done the
same before. Nothing unusual was no
ticed In his demeanor; he was appar-
emily in a normal condition of mind.
There was nothing that vas discovered
about him to indicate that he contem-
plated such a terrible deed until he was
found a m after entering the toilet
room unconscious n dying from a bull
let-hole in his head.
The shot aroused the clerks and at.
tracted them to the closet the moment
It was fired. Strauss lay stretched out
on the floor with his eyes wide open,
but he was incapable of speech.
An ambulance vas summoned from
Chambers Street Hospital, whittier the
dying man was removed. A cursory ex-
animation showed the surgeon that the
wound was mortal. and 10 attempt to
emo the bullet was made.
The relatives Of the dead man were
notified by telegraph messenger, and O
brother Ind two brothers-in-law called
at the hospital and remained until thu
end. Mrs. Strauss did not call. 1t was
laid that the new had so shocked heI
hat she was Frustrated.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon one Of the
brothers-in-law and Mr.. Strauss's at.
torney called at the hospital Inc mott.
ned the Superintendent that the body
would be removed at 2 o'clock.
As soon as the news came from
Chambers Street Hospital that Mr.
Strauss was dead the store at SO Yves
Broadway was closed and the iron shut
tiers drawn down.. A little card on thu
door announced that the sudden deatf
of a member of the firm was the reason
for closing up.
When Park Commissioner Nathan
Straus heard of the suicide he tele
phoned his wife. 80 that she would
make nc mistake In the name.
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