The evening world., 1894-07-07
|ouR SOUGHT DEATH.
Noses Lemon and Mrs. Elizabeth
Lewis Were Successful.
Y. Used a Pistol. She Took Gan
ide Of Potassium.
Suicidal Wave Strikes Brooklyn
During the Night and Morning.

|. A suicidal wave swept over Brooklyn
7 last night and early this morning. To.
\ aay the police reported that four persons
made attempts upon their lives after
,uuset last night. In two instances they
we're successful. the victims being a man
and woman.
A case that Is puzzling the police and
the surgeons Of the Long Island College
Hospital is that of 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 $40 Third avenue. He was locked in
4 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 declaration
that he had swallowed three grains of
strychnine, while in New York earlier
in the night. Other remedies were ad-
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 still declined
to talk, and would not even give his
name. The doctors are sceptical as to
the truth of his story about taking 30
much strychnine. and they say he will
probably come around all right.
Moses Lem NOR picture lure, dealer, thirty
shot himself over the heart at the Third
street entrance to Prospect Park, at ~
o'clock last night, died in Seney Hospi-
tai at 1905 o'clock this morning.
Lemon left home several days ago.
saying to a neighbor before he left that
he might never be heard from again.
Last night he stumbled into a barroom
opposite the Park and asked for drink
He was very drunk then. He left in a
few minutes.
You'll find my body in the Park" he
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
Ennis got his prisoner 10 the Third
street entrance. when the latter suddenly
shook of the grasp OF his captor and.
pulling a 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
Cyanide OF potassium was the sure
oeth Lewis. aged nifty. of 1913 Atlantic
feund dead in her Sesr esss; ia ae last last
night. A doctor was called in and he
said she had been poisoned
was taken III and went TO the
avenue. The woman secured apart
ments with Mrs. H. ]. Montgomery at
She was very Respondent. and on sew
eral occasions threatened to take her
life. but her friends thought she was
supper, and later on the other inmates
of the household went to her room, and
found her dead. A search of the room
led to the discovery Of two letters. One,
addressed to the Coroner, read as fol-
mo need of any investigation. Am
sick and tired of existence and take the
take cyanide Of potassium, which is
quick and sure. Ny life is blasted. Have
made my friend, Mrs. Capt. ii. J. Mont
gomery. my sole beneficiary in order
that my dying wishes may be carried out
II launch my bark on an unknown
sea-"
George Koehl. twenty-seven years old,
apartments over his butcher shop. at SO
Miller avenue. Brooklyn. at 7.S0 o'clock
this morning.
comes from a family of suicides. both
his father and brother having attempt
ed their own lives. For six months he
has conducted butcher shop at So
Miller avenue. OF late he has become
respondent over the loss of trade, and
the depression caused by the great
strike seemed to be the last straw.
This morning he went to market early
and returned with some meat, but not
with his usual quantity, the increase in
price supposedly being the cause. Soon
after he went upstairs to the sitting
room. where his wife sat, with their lit
tie baby. He had a butcher knife in his
hand. She asked him what he was 60
Ing to do. but got no reply.
He went into their bedroom, and she
followed him, repeating the question.
suddenly he turned and shouted
You get out OF here or I'll kill you, too. +"
He then drew the knife across his throat.
cutting 1t from ear to ear. He fell across
the bed: bleeding profusely.
Mrs. koehl's cries aroused the neigh
eeors, who came and tried to stop the
Tor an ambulance to st. Mary's Hospital.
Ambulance Surgeon Hussy responded.
ne bound up the wound and took koehl
70 the hospi6l. where he was examined.
me physicians say that there are no
hopes OF his recovery.
The family life OF Koehl. the neighbors
SS, was a happy one, and no cause can
given for his rash act aside from his
dependency over the state of business,