New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-21
DEADIN A BOX FULL or GAS.
, POLICEMAN OVERCOME WHEN HE TOOK
THE SUICIDES BODY OUT.

scuwAPz HAD BEEN MADE ALMOST CRAZY by
FINANCIAL. TROUBLES AND HIS NEIGH
BoRs SAY A PROLONGED VISIT FROM
HIS MoruER-IN-LAw CONTRIB
rrrEp TO THE RESULT.
1ou,s T schwarz. a butcher who for the last
two months had carried On business at No. 2s1
Bleecker-st.. shut himself up in the cashiers box
in his store yesterday afternoon ana comt''it'eu
suicide by disconnectlng the meter and inha''ng
the gas He had been dead for hours when the
police finally broke open the box and pulled his
body out ard so great was the volume or gas
confined within the little den that Policeman
Uaniean Of the Chares-st station. and a young
man named Barry who assisted him In smash
ing In the door and stopping up the broken pipe
Of the meter we're overcome. and DR.. OGorman
had 70 be called from ST. Vincents Hospital to
revive HEM
Rusiness troubles are primarily accountable
for the butchers suicide To this cause, however,
the neighbors add irritation caused by pro-
Ioneed visit from his mother-n-law Mrs. Finster,
who came on from the West about month ago
10 STAY with her daughter and. It Is alleged add
ed the last straw TO the heavy load when
Schwarz already bore. He was prosperous
business man when he opened the store IN
Bleecker-st but from the time he started IN
business there things began TO go wrong with
him. Trade proved by no means what ne had
expected and his debts began to accumulate
His wife, finding that money was not SO piehu-
full with her husband as it had been, pressed MIN
to tell her about his business, but ne kept hi'
affairs TO himself, and when she began to worry
him for more money or FOR Information ABOUT
his affairs he began to drink heavily. MIS-
Schwarz wrote 70 her mother. Mrs Finster and
the latter came In from the West to stay with
her daughter. After her arrival Schwarzs sprees
grew more frequent and Of longer duration. He
resented his mother-in- laws Interference. and
one night some ten Gays ago. when she was
delivering homly on his duties to his wife ana
child. 1t is said that ne stopped her by drawing
a loaded revolver and threatening to shoot her
and the whole family. Policeman La Rue had
to be called in from the street to quiet him.
IN A QUARRELsoME MOOD.
On Saturday policeman had to be called
into the store to settle dispute between
Schwarz and one Of his workmen whom ne
had refused to pay, and on Monday the SheflH
levied an execution at the store Schwarz smut
I'D the place and went off on prolonged spree
He wes not again unit! yesterday AFTER
noon when his wife and Mrs Finster saw him
reel heavily into the store He looked at them
savagely, and told them to clear out when MS
inother-in-iaw began to question him. ana, rear
full that he would do them some violence, they
went upstairs to their rooms over the store ana
locked themselves In. - -. .,,1z.
Schwarz went into the store and shutting
himself in the cashiers box, stopped all the
apertures with rags and paper and broke the
gaspipe leading to the meter with wrench.
Then ne sat down on the stool inside. his back
to the store window and waited for death
woman who came into the store TO buy beer
at 4:3O D. m saw him through the glass parti-
ton In front and. smelling the gas. ran out and
informed Policeman Hanigan. With the as
sistance OF Barry, the policeman broke open
the door OF the box and pulled the body out
The gas overcame them also. and they were
revived with difficulty by DR.. O'Gorman, OF st.
Vincents Hospital, who was summoned by an
other officer.
OTHER MEANS OF DEATH.
Schwarz had evidently determined to Kill
himself. for when searched his pockets were
found to contain among a miscellaneous col
lection OF articles, loaded revolver and
package Of paris green.