The evening world., 1893-11-27
SCRIBA's TRAGIC SUICIDE,
Ex-U. S. Bank Examiner Kills
Himself in San Francisco
Once Cashier of the Shoe and Leather
Bank-His Peculiar VIII.

News comes from san Francisco Of
the traFic suicide Of Augustus NJ. Serbia.
well-known New Yorker. Mr.. Serbia
was once cashier q tho shoe AMI Leith.
er Bank. ot this city. and was tor Sis.
teen years a Bank Examiner IN tie
Vnitel States Treasury Department.
IN lSs5, after twelve years service as
an assistant examiner. he was promoted
to the head Of the bureau. He was re-
moved 10y the late secretary Daniel
Manning on the recommendation ot
Comptroller OF the Currency Trenholm.
Jan. B. 1857. although his promotion had
been made upon Al petition signed by
every New York banking house.
Nh Serbia chose a cheap lodging-hnus =
in Golden Gates avenue, san Francisco.
for the execution OF a long-plannei sui
all p nting to the fact that he had long
contemplated self-destruction.
one letter. addressed to the Coroner.
SAID:
w;ary o; tn. struggle ,qF e.issnc. h.v.
than 10 s'Ary- surrounded hy plenty.
please have my body cremstei in tn. rev
Crugtr Mon'ros..C . the iiIdson. y y
TELEGRAPH t. M-s. Anna d. Plat, ilis street.
Washington, 4 {.
Serbia once had a beautiful country
There was another paper In which he
described his family tree, tracing his
pedigree from the Anglo-SaNon kings OF
England and a curious will" 1t said:
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov a. 1895 in the name
Q: God. amen. l. Augustus NJ. Serbia. BY the grace
% God. descendant o. Alfred tie Great and
Edmgni lroa.ids: Of ChA'lemsEae. and Q; otho
the Great u' HuEl CApei. and Wittekind the
Great. ot Mslcon CAinnore sri s. Margaret.
90 hereby declare this to be my last will and
testament.
- Il. H. l..
again to his royal ancestry. and regrets
that his dcvisabe estate Is no. larger
than II is as follows:
hereby stse. bequeath and devise ur'o Mar
SoTny the state ., %e~ york ali the personal
and real property Of which may be possessed. TO
have and to hold 'or her oNa use aai benefit 'oF-
ever
Al Q. which is in consideration Of her Kindness
and friendly sympathy shown 10 ne a. a s-i''c,l
peToi % my life. when had been deserted by all
who ,lsin to have been M friends
Nv only regret Is thaLi have not iarse es,ate
to S.qne'A Asr Cod eits as: 1.r ':S s5s tSt.s
Mary A. Garrlgan is described in an
other document as an OLD and faithful
servant. who was my faithful friend
when Others had deserted me, and but
for whom ] would have starved In my
own home. God bless her" To her he
directed that his bag. trunks and rifles
be sent.
Then on another paper the man wrote
bulletins Of his condition. The last one
was at 40 r. NJ. Nov 81. II said
have Just FVaHowed f'ty-one hall grain pills
and an beyond the meanasss and sslhshuess OF
mankind. like my poo-. old ancestor Dgucan.
Then in wavering hand is written:
Just put my body In a pine box and carry I;
10 the crcmatory have taken arms against
sea OF trouble, and by opposing end them.
The hep | hoped for did not come. Amen
Serbia was tall thin and Intellectual.
He was born In Constantine. village
founded by his grandfather. in lS83. At
sixteen he came TO the Metropolitan
Bank. New York. He was employed in
the uncuTrent money department. sue
ceeded to Its superinten1ency and con-
tinuei there till 1851. He retired for re-
came an assistant bank examiner OF the
Treasury Department.