The evening world., 1893-10-26
PARES|S AND A SHOT.
Lovecraft, of the Coney Island
Jockey Club, Kills Himself
Insanity Had Unbalanced Him and
Led to the Act.
For Days Ho Had Caused Anxiety
to His Friends.

TTtitIlCh - IONtCIdll, SSSlSldlL
Secretary of the Coney Island Jockey
Club and business manager and conf
Dental secretary for Theodore Moss OF
Palmer's and the Star Theatre, commit
ted suicide this morning in his apart
ments over Rourke's oyster-house.
Broadway and Thirtieth street. by
shooting himself in the head.
Temporary alteration of mind due to
inclpient paresis is said to have been
the cause of his act. b.
Mr. Lovecraft occupied luxurious
apartments at Thirtieth street and
broadway. He has lived there for sew
eral years. The establishment was pre-
sided over by a houskeeper, Mary Eliza
beth Smith.
Recently he has been sharing his
apartments with Col. Corey, a friend of
long standing.
For several weeks past Mr.. Lovecraft
has given evidence of mental trouble.
He has hung around the rooms of the
Coney Island Jockey Club evidently
moody and depressed.
About $50 this morning Housekeeper
Smith called Mr.. IIovecraft to breakfast.
He said he preferred not to eat, but
would remain in his sleeping room,
| "lllAIl ! AlN b'Nolih 'liN ~ NfS esSS
overlooking Broadway.
A few minutes later the housekeeper
was startled by hearing several pistol
shots coming from the direction OF MI.
Hastily summoning Col. Keafney, the
housekeeper opened the door. Loyecraft
sat in an armchair in one corner OF the
room, directly under a water-color flow
er n pleSe; wa, tr,ck,inr from a bu~lle.Iho,e
In his temple.
| bulIat.bnla throuph tho water-cOlOfs
picture and another in the wall behind
the wounded man accounted, for the
three shots heard by the ho~usekeeper;
An empty t~hree-ounce bottle, which
had held carbolic acid. was found on the
pom a Smith & Wesson 3s-calibre re-
volver lay a few feet away.
Policeman Wadsley, of the West Thir-
tieth street station, was called in and he
sent for an ambulance.
Meanwhile DR.. Ashe, of Twenty-ninth
street, had been by Man.
ager James A. Morrissey, Of the Madison
Square Garden. DR.. Ashe said that the
wound was probably fatal;
Lovecraft was placed in the ambu-
lance, but died on the way to the New
York Hospital.
A, NJ. Palmer said to-day: "Loyecraft
$3.50, OO0 to the good. But he was am
bilious to be n millionaire. He might
easily have saved an independent for
tune in twenty years from his large
He lost heavily in the late panic and
worried till he was down sick. DR.. T.
". Robertson, of 2S East Twentieth
street. attended him.
He had nervous prostration and grew
worse. Col. Kerney made a careful In
vestigation OF tovecraft,s AFFAIRS, and
reported to me that he found Lovecraft
had fully $50, 900 left.
DIR. Robertson said yesterday that
Lovecraft was certainly crazy, and that
If he were. not taken care OF he would
kill himself.
All arrangements had been made by
his friends TO remove him this afternoon
to the Middletown Asylum: He must
have suspected the move, for he check
mated it by killing himself.
Starter Caldwell, who has known him
for year, sct s Ntbon 51,day tb that, s1gsiasr
Lovecraft got a big start In a dea!
connected with n patent washer used
in carriage building. :.
At the Coney Island Athletic Club 4
was said that Lovecraft's accounts with
the Club We're all straight.
Frederick Lovecraft was we'll known
In racing, theatrical and business cir
cies. He had more irons in the fire than
almost any other man in the country;
He was a handsome man, OF genial
manners, and forty-two years old:
ter twenty years ago with $4,000 In his
pocket, and went into Wall street. he
didn't suffer the usual shear1ng ,wnich
lambs" ordinarily undergo. but In less
than a year had gathered in a snug lit
tie fortune of $4,000.
Suddenly. however, he met the fate of
a good many other shrewd men who
have pinned their faith in their luck.
Without any warning he found himself
stranded without a cent.
He was not long in pulling himself to-
gether. He soon began to retrieve his
fortunes in a multitude of enterprises
to which he devoted a tremendous
amount Of energy.
He was clerk OF the course and assist
ant treasurer OF the Coney Island Jockey
Club, besides acting as Secretary of the
!; Club. He owned several fast ~trotters
with fine records. He was an enthusi-
astic lover of horse flesh.
Besides being business manager OF
Falmer's Theatre. he was for twenty
wears, confidential man to Theodore
Moss. OF the Star Thetre, and was an
!, official OF the American Jockey Club.
Among some of the other offices which
/, Mr.. Lovecraft held in business corpora
lions were the following: Nice-Presi-
dent Of the Essex Watch Case Com
pany. Treasurer of the Thompson Meter
Company. Treasurer of the Colts Ar
, mory Press Company, a partner in the
Allen AdvertisinE Agency and an asso-
! ciatc of Blakely Hall in the ~proprietor-
ship Of Truth, the illustrated weekly.
Nobody knows how many other enter
prises Mr.. Lovecraft was interested in.