New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-26
PART III.
PAGES II TO is.
, WIDOWS STRANGE DEATH.
&c SUPPOSED SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE
BY HANGING FROM A DOOR.

80 &c TIVE STORY TOLD BY THE FAMILY. BUT
-yr TESTIMONY OF \ SERVANT WHO SAYS
CIV FIRST SAW HER DEAD MISTRESS
DOES not AGREE WITH IT.
,.o,sne Axmacher. a well-to-do widow Nv
MI eve-s,ory brownstone dwelling-house at
Ing II ~. u,est Sixty-hfth-st. is supposed to have
No. - suicide nj her home at about o'clock
e'n"~ morning by hanging herself from closet
y's bor bedroom Although the womans death
doo' carly in the morning, II not until five
o. ,o.ar that report Of it made TO the
West sxty-oighth-st station
wurarn Axmachcr son Of the dead woman,
10 l,,.~ NJ No 81 East One-hundred-and-hfteent
,f,rr,ed The police lie went 10 the station
ss,er,l with grief and after telling the facts Of
.he case ~ ,he sergeant az the desk. begged that
-, -. 80 tho suicide should not be made public.
~ sot5 shat his mothers body had been found
- rom a door and that the body had been
,.,, down by Dr. Frankenberg. of No. 1000 Lexing-
,on-aye. who was Che family physician.
,.r-ie .lbrccht q servant in the house. told re-
,o-,sr that she was tho first to discover her mis-
$3.50 death She said that about o'clock in the
,-,irg The dead voman's married daughter. Ellen
rouerheir aroused her and told her that she
feared tho~e was somcf hing wrong with her mother,
as they could not open her door. She had been
heard moving around her room shortly before. but
when h,r daughter knocked at the door to see If
sponse Morris Lowonbein. the son-in-law, accom-
pan.ed hy his wife and the servant. went TO the
woman room The door was still locked Carrie
managed to force open the door.
Here her story sounds peculiar She says that
she looked into the room and Mrs. Axmacher
lying apparently dead the floor by bureau.
The girl was positive in her statement that the
woman was not hanging from any door, and that
there Was no door open TO which the woman could
have hanged herself Besides the door she forced
open she said that the only doors in the room were
close, doors and they were all closed when she
looked in MI and Mrs Lowenbeln. according to
Carrie. went downstairs with her after glancing
into The room Carrie SAYS she told later that
Ny Axmacher had died from heart failure
Edna. mounted their bicycles and RODE TO the nome
% Dr Frankenherg. al No. 1910 LeXingtoh- ave. We
He hurried TO the h9uSe Inc son lTi
employed in Lowenbeins furniture estaDs tlilioi
al No IN West Twenty-third-si.. was telepholeu
for and It after his arrival at the house iha'
the police were told of The suicide. . -.
william AXmacher told the police sergeant tnat
his mother had been IN a sanitaTlum W men r.
porter saw him at the house he said ,ha' ms ms
While acknowledging that she had commit'ed SUI
eide. declared that ne could not assign any 'easoh
II was learned. however tina; Mrs. Axmacher had
heer suffering for some time from rheumatism. and
ma her mind was affected Il Is supposed tha' she
killed herself while suffering from tenlpoidI! M
sanity she was A patient for four weeks in SAM
INN conducted bv Dr. Frankenberg somewhere
~ Harlem she returned home few days ago
r. 80 roine 10 Inc saritarium the family had TWO
since her return the nurses have not been WIN htI
The doctor had given directions il Is Salu 1"a,
,ir~re a. she was likely TO die at any moment Inc
family was preparing TO leaVe the "o"Se al" "'O''
ei.4v A.r. next Thursday. ,,
The servants say that men supposed TO he thieves
have beeI found in house on several occasions
IA .--i Sisiika 10 the neighhorhood had prompted
The family 10 look for another mouse.