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.
Blow Out His Grains In 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 IS West Broadway,
shot himself in the toilet-room OF the
establishment at $40 A.. M. to-day. and
died at 1912 P. Nj. in the Chambers
Street Hospital.
II there was any motive for the sui
eide 1t seems to be known only to the
relatives, and they guard the secret
carefully, denying eve that they can
conceive of any reason why the man
should desire to end his career so abb
'fuptly.
The lead man was thirty-five years
old, inc lived with his wife and two
children in the Grenoble flats, at Fifty
seventh street and Broadway. He was
. nephew of the head of the firm, who is
reputed to be very wealthy. and drew n
large salary, which enabled him to pro-
vide himself and family with all de-
sirable comforts and many luxuries.
Domestic infelicity was n thing I'm
known In the Strauss household. the
relatives say. 1t was q 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 hour 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, coulo be the motive
of the young man with a 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 went to the store at the usual
hour this morning. He was always
prompt and severely m~ethodical in his
' business affairs. He went to his desk.
attended to his mail, and at 9.26 went
into the toilet room.
He spoke to no one on entering the
store. This was not deeiled 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 was discovered
about him to indicate that he contem-
plated such a terrible deed until he vas
found a after entering the toilet
room unconscious and 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
IN the floor with his eyes wide open,
but he was incapable of speech.
An ambulance was summoned from
Chambers Street Hospital, whittier the
dying man was removed. A cursory ex-
animation showed the surgeon that the
wound was mortal. and no attempt to
Femove the bullet was made.
The relatives of the dead mar were
notified by telegraph messenger, and a
brother and two brothers-ln-law called
At the hospital and remained until the
end. Mrs. Strauss did not call. 1t wa
said that the news a so shocked her
that she was Frustrated.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon one of the
brothers-in-law n Mr.. Strauss's at
torney called at the hospital and noti-
lied 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 IS West
tiers drawn down.. A little card on the
door announced that the sudden death
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, so that she would
: make no mistake In the name.
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