New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-17
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| AN OUTBREAK OF SUICIDES.
FIVE PERSONS TRY TO DIE AND THREE
SUCCEED IN DYING.
AN ITALIAN GIRL OF SEVENTEEN KILLS HER
SELF FOR LOvE-A JEALOUS WIFE swAL~
LOWS cARBoL;c ACID AND A DRUNKEN
WOMAN sTABS HER3ELF-A FORMER
JANiTOR OF THE PEQuOD
CLUB THOUGHT TO HAVE
THROWN HIMSELF
FROM THE ROOF.

FROM THE ROOF.
Five cases OF attempted suicide, three OF which
ended in death were reported at Police Head.
quarters witain twelve hours yesterday. Three
OF the persons tired OF life were women. all under
thirty years. one. young Italian girl. who dled
early In the morning. was only seventeen. Ths
record was an unusual one,
Josephine I,lorda drank glass OF oxal'c acid IN
the boarding house of her aunt Mrs. Gonfaronc.
at No. 10 Macdougal-st, early yesterday morn
ms She was only seventeen hut according 70
the story Of her roommate. Marguerite Cerritt
anl her llttlc sister she Killed herself for love.
Josephine was the waitlne.mad In the boarding.
house ana the Italian newspaper mon who nads
the house thcir headquarters say she wns the prct-
ticst glrl In Macdoupal-st. when she came from
Naples three years ago she fell In love with Fran
cesco pcllegatti. n reporter on the ltinan news
paper "Cr!stoforo Colombo" According to Mr'
reilogattrs friends. the girls attentions empar'
rassed him 8, much that the left the boarding.
house
Next Josephine formed attachment for
Gerano Granadl Fdi'or II a weekly paper called
The sedla Geituca." She confessed her attach
ment T. Granada at a time when he had quar-.
relied with Nellie Bacei. the girl to whom he had
been engaged lie made up his quarrel with MS
former sweetheart. however.
ROBBED IN WHITE FOX DtNifi'
Josephine was nconsolabe. To her sister and
her friend. Marguerite Cerrti. she frequently de-
carei that she would XIII herself. The girls
threats were laughed at and when early yester-
day morning she got up and carefully robcd her
SELF In white telling her companions that she
was going to die they did not believe her.
At O'Clock, however. she walked into the
parlor. where her aunt and two Of the servants
f1lIi, ha. m fpe
had swallowed the acid with which she cleaned
the silver. she said DR. Faroni, Of South Fifth
ave. was sent for. out the girl died in fearful
agony a quarter Of an hour after his arrival
Crazed by drink Mrs. Jennie Nevns. the wife
Of A laborer at No. 252 West Thirty ninth
St went to the rooms Of her mother. Mrs.
Martha Travis, on the top hoor OF tne
tenement house at No. 2l5 West sixty-hrst-
at at noon yesterday. There. after getting
into fight With her mother and cutting her in the
hand she tried TO end her own life by hacking
her throat with a caseknife. a small BOY toid
policeman # the fight and the policeman arrived
lust in lime He seized the infuriated woman.
and having tied her hands sent her in an amou-
lance to Bellevue Hospital An inquiry Is 10 %
made there into her sanity. Mrs. Travis says her
daughter is rum hend ST.
George Sachs the janitor Of the Pequod Club:
was found senseless on the sidewalk IN 'front.' OF
his house No 265 West Twenty-hfth-st.
next door 10 the club. at | O'Clock yester-
day morning. He had evidently fallen from
the roof. five stories above. and. aithoasn
committed suicide. many OF his friends VINO nao
remarked his despondent condition during the
last few days strongly suspect that he may nave
thrown himself OH.
OUT OF WORK AND DESPONDENT.
Sachs had been connected with the Pequod
for many years, and had held number OK
political positions. He resigned lucrauVe
position ne held. two months ago. because ne
had promise Of the superintendent Of .
Tcla nd
ton was given to another man. and he was lert
stranded He went home Saturday night and
went up on the roof. Nothing more was seen
u MIN uAul Detective Dowling. of the CentrA
Office. two hours later stumbled across .n'
mans body. An ambulance was summoned,
but before the vehicle reached the New iork
Hospital ne died without being able TO explain
how he had fallen. -
which Mrs Kate Beirne. the wife OF baker
employed by the New-York Biscuit company
killed herself She died In 81 vincent LIS. LIS.
pltal an hour after taking The dose. Mrs. bsirhe
was twenty eight years old and had oniy peen
married i've years. but was necessarily tor-
mented by the insane Jealousy or her huspah".
she bought carbollc acid on several occasions
and threatened To Kill herself but the threate
had been repeated 50 often that her husoaha
had ceased 10 believe IN th"in' anu 'eS'S'""s
he laughed at her. .
Vel you'il soon see" replied the Wife and
she threw upon the noor the half empty bottle
The ambulance doctor summoned could do noth-
ing and the woman died NJ she was peins car.
red into St Nlnccnts Hospital - 49,
whether Morras Thompson. OF No. slI West
Nlnc,centh-s. really attempted suicide by cut
ting hts throat with his razor On saturday nigh~
at no confessed at Bellevue Hospital yesterday,
or VIII, thcr ne Was cut by his brothers during
family quarrel. is mystery when the police
ar. tring To clear up. Policeman ONeill heard
cr,es I'm the iear OF the tencment-hou In which
tho Thompsons live and saw Morris come out
with A clean-cut wound at the side OF his neck.
which he said he had cut accidentally while
shaving Yesterday Morris accompanied by his
brother Robert went 10 Bellevue Hospital 70
have his wound dressed. He remarked 10 the
surgeon. 1T wasn't an accident after all Inc
doctor turned To the brother for an explanation.
and Robert replied we had a fight and told
him | was the boss Of the house. Then he said.
.Tn cut myself and drew the razor across MS
throat" Norris was therefore locked up until
the case can be investigated in Jefferson Market
Court this morning