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 in His West
Broadway Store.

Nathan Strauss. New York represen-
tative OF the d~ry-goods firm OF Levi
Strauss & Co., of San Francisco. whose
headquarters were IS West Broadway,
shot himself In the toilet-rooR of the
establishment at $50 A.. NJ. to-day, and
died al lo.lc p. M. 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. denytmG even that they can
conceive Of any reason why the man
should desire to end his career so ab-
ruptly.
The lead man vas t%hirty-nve years
old, and lived with his wife and two
children in the Grenoble flats. at Fifty
seventh street and Broadway. He was
a nephew Of the head of the firm. who Is
feputed to be very wealthy, and drew a
large salary. which enabled him to pro-
vide himself and family with all de-
sirable comforts and many luxuries.
Domestic infelicity was , a thing un-
known in the Strauss household. the
relatives say. 1t was 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 val an hour after the shooting,
were found to be correct. and they were
in such a condition as to offer no sug-
Eestion for a possible discrepancy.
Whatever. then. could 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 temple. tSu
Strauss went to the stbrs 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 9.25 went
into h toilet room.
He spoke to ho one on entering the
store. This was not deemed at all
strange. as he had frequently done the
same before. Nothing unusual was no.
ticed in his demeanor; he was appar.
entity in a normal condition of mint
There was nothing that was discovered
about him to indicate that he contem.
plated such a terrible deed until he was
found a moment after entering the toilet
room unconscious and dying from a bull.
let-hole in his head.
The shot aroused the clerks and A.
tracted them to the closet the moment
1t was fired. Strauss lay stretched out
on the fioor with his eyes wide open
but he was incapable of speech.
An 'ambulahce5 was eurninonsdf from
Chambers Street Hospital. whittier th,
dying man was removed. A,cursory ex
animation showed the urgeon that tn,
wound was mortal. and no attempt t
remove the bullet was made.
The relatives of the dead man wert
notified by telegraph messenger. and
brother and two brothers-in-law called
st the hospital and remained until thu
end. Mrs. Strauss did not call. 1t wal
said that the news had so shocked hei
that she was Frustrated.
At / o'clock this afternoon one of the
brothers-in-law and Mr.. Strauss at.
torney called at the hospital and mott.
Ned the Superintendent that the bod,
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 Yves
Broadway was closed and the iron shut
ters drawn down. A little card on tn,
door hat the sudden dea:f
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 wouit
] make no mistake In the name.