The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-22
CAUSE OF DEITSH'S SUICIDE.
HE LOST MONEY FOR HIS FIRM
THAT HE COULDN'T MAKE GOOD.


He Was staying That He Was Go
ing to His Room for n "sOIid Rest"
and Asked Not to BE Disturbed-IIe
VOuched for the SOIvency of a
Southern Firm to Which He Sold
Goods and which Failed and Left
Him Responsible for an Amount
That He Couldn't Make Up.
The Herald of Saturday contains par
ticulars additional to those published In
the dispatches of the Morning News rel
alive TO the suicide of Mr. Maurice Deitsh,
which occurred in the Grand Union hotel,
New York, Thursday night or Friday
morning. The Herald says:
Mr. Deitsh returned from his head
quarters in Savannah Ga, about two
weeks ago, and had a long talk with AL
fred p. Sloan, one of the members of the
firm which employed him. 1t was known
to Mr.. Deitsh's friends that he had made
some unfortunate ventures and after his
consultation with Mr.. Sloan he was ap-
parently very much disheartened
He avoided his friends, and on Satur-
day last he left his home, at No. "A East
Seventy-fourth street, telling his WIFE,
who is i'll. that he was merely going out
for a walk. and would return in short
time for dinner He did not return.
After Mr.. Deitsh's friends had been
hard at work trying to find him, the as
sistance of the police was called in on
Monday. His brother went to police
headquarters, and a general alarm was
sent out describing him as Of medium
height, stout. dark hair and mustache
and very sharp brown eyes
No trace of the missing man was found,
and his family received no word of his
whereabouts until last evening. Solomon
WE'LL, an intimate friend of the suicide
called at his home and told his brother
and sister-in-law that their relative had
killed himself.
1t was on Wednesday afternoon that
Mr.. Deitsh entered the Grand Union
hotel, opposite the Grand Central sta
ton, and registering as from Savannah,
Ga, was assigned to room No. IS. He
was frequently seen about the hotel office
and corridors during the remainder of the
day and the following morning. II was
noticed that he smoked a great deal, and
was apparently anxious to receive some
message, for ne repeatedly inquired at the
clerks desk If any one had called Tor nm
After eating a hearty dinner at the no
tel restaurant. Mr.; Deitsh went to the
desk about o'clock Thursday afternoon,
and said that he felt pretty badly ana
Thought he would so to his room for a
solid rest" He instructed the clerk not
to have him disturbed unless ne called.
Mr.. Deitsh passed out of the minds or
the hotel people until o'clock yesterday
afternoon, when chambermald named
Mary made an effort to enter the apart
ment She found the door locked, and,
looking through the transom, saw Mr..
Deitsh sitting, apparently dead, near the
window
She notified the Office and the hotel de-
tective broke open the door, which was
locked and bolted from within. He found
the man clad only in his night gown,
revolver lay alongside the body on the
floor. A gaping wound in his head and
an empty shell in the weapon told the
on a center table there were several
telegraph blanks-all written upon. Mr..
Deitsh had gone about the taking of his
life with deliberation. He had evidently
intended that when his body was found all
his friends and relatives should be notl-
fed of his death.
Mr. Deitsh, after undressing himself
had carefully arranged his clothing on
chair near him and had shot himself
with great deliberation, evidently taking
careful aim at his head by means of the
In his pockets we're $3.50 and a small,
deliberately engraved gold watch. He had
taken the precaution TO record on the
dispatch intended for Mr. Well. his half
brother, send this first and the hotel
people, after notifying the police
station, sent the dispatch. Then the
body was taken to an undertaking shop
in Fourth avenue, where Mr.. WE'LL found
1t was evident from the condition of
the body when found that it had been life
less for many hours.
MIR Well notified Mr. Deitsh's brother
and Sister-in-law, but kept the news from
Mrs Deitsh and the suicides aged mother.
Friends at the home of the family IN East
Seventy-fourth street refused all Informal
no TAN
the dead mans brother, refused to say
whether his relative had been in any
difficulties.
The firm of tea importers which Mr.
Deitsh represented is an old one, with
large connections in the south. 1t is COM
posed Of Philo S. Bennett. A. P. Sloan
and c. T. Ward Mr.. Deitsh had wide
acquaintance among southern merchants
and was very popular among them. He
is said to have handled the greater part
of Bennett & Sloan's southern business.
The connection between the suicide ana
his relations with the firm is only in
dicated in the dispatches he intended for
PIX Pike members % MS mouse anu M NC
At Mr.. Sloan's house in Brooklyn it
was said by young woman who an
swered my questions from a second story
window that Mr.. Sloan was not expected
home. When she was asked about Mr.
Deitshs connection with the firm. she
said that Mr.. Sloan did not believe the
report of the suicide when he heard 1t
early in the evening. He thought il was
simply another excuse TO gain time in
order to make straight the accounts. Mr.
Sloan has been trying to find him for
some time"
Was Mr.. Deitsh involved in any defqI-
cation?" l asked.
Il really don't know about that" said
the young woman: There was some trou-
BILE about money"
When S. d. Hausman was called on az
No, 649 Carroll street, Brooklyn his son
explained that his father had gone to New
York He didn't believe that his uncle
Mr.. Deitsh. had comnstted suicide, and as
for any defalcation or trouble about
money matters, he didn't believe in them
if they involved his uncle
Mr. Well did not return to his home
at No 1913 East Sixteenth street last
night. He remained with his mother and
sisters at AZ East SeVenty-fourth street
He refused absolutely to talk about his
half-brothers business affairs.
Jacob II. McPike, general manager for
Bennett. Sloan & Co, said last night
that Mr. Detsh had worked for the
firm for four years Some time ago he
had sold a big bill Of goods to a south
ern firm, and when he reported to the
company the solvency Of the firm was
doubted.
M noiteb then said that he r.o.,ta