New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-05
HE JrypED FIFE STORIES TO HIS DEATH
J. W. LAUTE3BACH, \ NANUFACTURER KILLED
HIMSELF. 1T Is SUPPOSED, BECAUSE OF
rr-eINTCS TROUBLES
BUSINESS TROUBLE


A fricLtrul mode OF suicide was adopted yesterday
by John W. Lautorlach. importer and manufacturer
Of willow ware at No. lei Chambersst., who jumped
! from the 1fth-story window at the Kead"s'' cru VI
! The building. In his fall 10 the sidewalk he WE
killed instantly. There were witnesses OF his mac
| leap To death. and the suicide caused much eAo''e
| ment I'm the street. $500
| Loutcr.och occupiod tie third fourth and firth
| floors of the building. lie had been in the willow
| ware bushes, there for six years on his own n
| CONT Previously he had been in partnership WIN
other importers at No. 30 ChambersSt. lie came u
| this country from Germany about forty years ago
| and had been an importer for thirty years. i''
| WAS nfty-fve years cid and had wife ana loui
children living ut no. 90 Welstcr-ave. jersey 'Hy'
In I'm. = trou'cs were said t. caused his Suicide
Ms s,les Lad been rs large usual. bat he hni
met number Of losses 10y the failure oil hrfhN III we
West with whom he dealt. Lately he had Deem
m,rvom, and melancholy On account oi th' r'p'"''u
failures Iii, bookkcopcr. Walter Dobcrehtz' S'id
yost, ri:y that hc handed Lntcrbdcl on frldiy Il
statement which showed that there was only !"
pr iii of a few hundred dollars In the business lOr
last year after the losses had been deducted. l"i
bach was looking over the statement aI"i" 9'S'''-
day morning and seemed To be- depressed lie
smoked II cigar nj the time an unusual thihg lor MN
10 do He walked tho floor Of his office In tn"
third story Of the hrildng In Il restless manner III"
had little to say to his employees Dobcrenz went
to thc lank nj II u. M, and when he returned ne
handed the handbook to Lautcrhach who loIkel over
il for some time.
At II 80 r. m. Laucrbach went mp TO the fifth
story OF the Luldlug where none of his employees
happened To be- at the time, and opened window
al the Readc-st end. John j. Curran, an Inspector
In the Department Of street Cleaning happened to
he passing ON the north side of the street. and saw
Lanterlach step out the wIndowsll and look down
rs If he was preparing 10 Jump.
Go back" Curran shouted.
IAuIcrbach appar ntlN did Let hear hifn' SEVERN
trlchdrlveis looked up som the street ana also h"ne'
at him. but Lautcrl;ch ,tcadcd himself Oh the wihdo"
ill and then jumped clear of the building. Dobor"ntz
the third noor. bad heard the shouting and he looked
out in time his employers BODY shoot down |"
the sidewalk from the fifth story. The mans legs
were broken his skull fractured Curran ana the
other men ran 10 the place where the body lay and
,ley saw at that the man Ind been killed. Al
ambulance. however was called from the Chambers
lodv and refused Ia take l. away. Pole "mcp got L
sire cher and carried the body 20 TIE Leonnrdst.
station. -
CITY, who said he had been employed By Iautrrbach,
got A permit from Deputy Coroner O'liHIu aid hlrtd
an undertaken TO remove The body 10 Lautcrbschs
home. lie said that brsn'-, troubles need not hay"
caused suicide. lauterhnch was worth funy
$4,000. He denied that LauterbaCh Ind lost money
by specuAtiug In Wall Street Lnil"!3lths losses lbs
tie failure, Of In the Wsst Backncr said, did
not aiect the business seriously.
Loutcrbach va, short. stout man. with dark com
Mon and full cray beard. lie quiet and
reserved man and inclined TO b. disturbed by trihcs
Bracincr said he thought Lau"rbach must have be
Friday night when he gave party AT hi, hou," In
Jersey C1y In honor OF his oldest daughter, birthday