The evening world., 1894-06-20
s~PREE,THEN SUICIDE.
Pastry Cook Rohr's Body Found
In High Bridge Park.
vile chldsd Him When He Went
Nome Drunk Last Thursday.
LsEtt1se Next Morning and'Hsd Not
Been Seen Since.

me Jb0dy Of Theodore Rohr. secretary
OF the Cooks and Pastry-Cooks' As
sociation of this city. was found at 9
O'Clock this morning Ia q clump OF
woods on One Hundred and Seventy
pscond- street, east of Amsterdam ave
nus. Cfutched In the right hand was a
thirty-two calibre revolver. while a
bloody buIlet-hole in the right temple
showed that he had died by his W
hand.
Domeniso capable. an italian laborer,
who tivss ct One Hundred and Eighty
notn ptrset and Amsterdam avenue, was
passing through the grove, which Is
known . High Bridge Park taking a
short cut much used by workmen on
the Speedway. when he tripped over the
bedy rsdiiuing against q tree trunk, about
- res hon High Bridge. ;
A &ancs at the CHASTITY face and the
clint Of the plstol-barrel told the tale
ara Ssut the affrishted capable of on a
run for q policeman. .,.
Eoiiceinen Pusgan and crSWe; es 5ns
street. 'stg fion, met the man on the B2ule-
ward and took charge Of the body. 1t Is
thouset by the police tha R9hr had , eti
iaSt night, in the Cosmopolitan Picnic
0seuaoS which Immediately 1djoin the
rip.s p%S Ss9 RHehs' of the the dead mar and
sa envelope marked, Henry >Ellmers'
g Lsxinston avenue" =,
,tsss. iiSSs snsis,eat asrn''h Mr. E Rfnns :? g
pFepneypr OF the Columbia Cafe. %
lSllAg5ph avenue, In the building used
Z lyhSaa1uarters Of the association or
which the suicide was an officer.
E1fmsfs was not surprised, however
erieysd he may have been by the police
notfcstion Of. the discovery Of the body.
n:aii this morning by Mrs. Rohr. wife of
the suicide, who, with er husband. had
for eighteen months been a member OF
BilmerS household, inclosing a duplicate
ran. and bidding her an affectionate
Rohf wat forty-nye years old, Of even
temper and naturally good:natured He
and at the time Of his. arrival in this
city, Q year and q half ago. brought
With him q comfortable sum which he
ssa sssu%alsteia IN s ss RP TSRr,isaSs Oh d
y HavinE many friends here, his wife
had urHSd him to come to New YORK,
and tnfs with h position, OF secretary
iuctAnt consent to her plan. Recently,
thoush. he had brooded over what he
hnoled were neglected opportunities
n 0BE4mS mOTOSc aIiu
.eyTnurSlay afternoon he went ont. re-
tdrp!nS late at night slightly the m worse ne
IA Wcaine sullen. He left the house
asaln Friday and was not heard S OF
dvni OF the brief note which announced
bis Intention Of killing himse;f; The Letter
= Pfesident Reinboldt, OF the Cooks
shd pss.ry Cooks, Expectation, .on assured ins1
-iaohr's Accounts were all right, and
$ssspdy Hsplored his comrades rash act ,S,
sppposftion that Rohr, who was ex
trsneiy seHSitive, had bee9ms heartily
llduof, and, mortified still further by
his wife's chidinG had sought relief iI
Ghame. had followed, N he had put AT
end TO the struggle with his conscience
by shooting himself.
The suicide had no children. Mr.. FIJI.
mefs has claimed ,he body, which was
removed to the West One Hundred
and Flfty-second street station. Rohi
win be buried by the Association.