The evening world., 1894-07-07
FOUR SOUGHT Death.
Moses Lemon and Mrs. Elizabeth
Lewis Were Successful.
He Used a Pistol, She Took Cyan.
ide OF Potassium.
Suicidal Wave Strikes Brooklyn
During the Night and hvrnins.

A suicidal wave swept over Brooklyn
last night and early this morning. To-
day the police reported that four persons
made attempts upon their lives after
sunset last night. In two instances they
were successful, the victims being a man
and a woman.
A Case that Is puzzllng the police and
the surgeons of the Long Island College
Hospital is that of a young man who
was arrested at 2 o'clock this morning
by the Hamilton avenue police on a
charge of being drunk
At the station-house he said he was
Ludger Tardy, twenty-five years old.
of 6l9 Third avenue. He was locked in
a cell. An hour and a half later, the
doorman noticed him lying on the floor.
apparently in great agony An ambu-
lance surgeon was called and, after an
examination of the patient, the case was
pronounced to be epilepsy. The doctor
worked over him some time and the man
returned to consciousness. Then he
startled the doctor with the declara ton
that he had swallowed three grains of
strychnine, while in New York earlier
in the night. Other remedies were adj
ministered, and the prisoner was re-
moved to the hospital.
He was questioned by the police as to
, Why he had taken the poison. but re-
fused to make any explanation. When
he awoke this morning he stlll declined
TO talk, and would NOT even give his
name. The doctors are skeptical as to
the truth of his story about taking 50
much strychnine. and they say he will
probably come around all right.
Moses Lemon. picture dealer. thirty
nine years old. of l67 Fifth avenue, who
shot himself over the heart at the Third
street entrance to Prospect Park. at 10
O'Clock last night, died in Seney Hospi-
tai at l2.0 o'clock this morning.
saying to neighbor before he 1 ieft that that
he might never be heard from again.
Last night he stumbled into a barroom
opposite the Park and asked for drink.
few minutes.
! You'll find my body in the Park" he
said to the bartender Then he crossed
the street and entered the Park. The
bartender told Policeman Ennis what his
customer had said, and the latter fol-
lowed and arrested him Lemon talked
incoherently.
Ennis got his prisoner to the Third
street entrance when the latter suddenly
shook on the grasp OF his captor and
pulling revolver, pressed it to his
The policeman called an ambulance
and Lemon was removed to the hospital
He made no statement of the reason for
his act.
cyanide of potassium was the sure
and rapid method chosen by Mrs. Eliza
beth Lewis. aged fifty, of 1918 Atlantic
evenue,' to end her troubles. She was
found dead in her bedroom late last
night. doctor was called in and he
said she had been poisoned.
Some time ago Mrs. Lewiss husban nd
husband was taken III and went to the
Home for Consumptives on Kingston
l'avenue. The woman secured apart
ments with Mrs. II. j. Montgomery at
the above address.
She was very respondent. and on sew
eral occasions threatened to take her
life, but her friends thought she was
talking idly. She failed to appear at
supper, and later on the other inmates
Of the household went to her room, a nd
found her dead. A search of the room
led to the discovery Of two letters. One
addressed to the Coroner, read as fol
lows:
mo need of any investigation. Am
sick and tired OF existence and take The
easiest way out of my misery. shat
take cyanide of potassium, which |.
quick and sure. MY life is blasted. Have
made my friend. Mrs. Capt II. j. Mont
gomery, my sole beneficiary in ordel
that my dying wishes may be carried on
to the letter.
II launch my bark on an unknown
sea"
George Koehl. a butcher, OF So Miller
avenue, Brooklyn, attempted suicide thi!
morning in his bedroom on the seconc
used in his business across his throat
INJECTING an ugly wound. Ambulance
Surgeon Hussey removed him to st
Mary's Hospital.