The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-30
RUSSIAN COUNT A SUICIDE,


 zubof Hangs Himself to the Bars of
 His Cell-Arrested When About to
 Sail for Europe-An Unpaid Hotel
 Bill.
 New York, July 29.--Roman J. Zubof, who, during his visit to this city, pass ed as q Russian count, was arrested this morning as he was about to sail on the American line steamship New York for having failed to pay his hotel bill and an hour and half after his arraignment in the Jefferson Market police court he committed suicide. He killed himself in a cell of the Jefferson Market prison.
 Zubof tied O silk handkerchief around his neck and attached 1t to the bars of the cell, He was dead when his body was discovered.
 As soon as the discovery was made that the prisoner was hanging to the door he was cut down, and while two men tried by every means at hand to resuscitate him hurred call was sent to Bellevue hospital for an ambulance. When the ambulance arrived from Bel leVuG AuUOl was uedQ.
 Zubof was very Respondent when he was taken to his cell, after his commit ment by the magistrate, but he gave no indication by word or action of his intention to kill himself.
 Zubofs arrest was made on a war rant issued a half hour before the New York sailed by Magistrate Deuel, on the complaint of Henry Walters of the Hotel Cambridge, at Fifth avenue and Thirty-third street.
 Walters accompanied by Detectives Dugan and McGuckin, arrived at the steamship pier just as the lines of the vessel were being cast off. A hurried search of the cabin and decks failed to reveal the Russian, and the trio started for the pier. As they reached the head of the gangplank they saw Zubof. load ed down with hat boxes and carrying a huge bouquet.
 Zubof started up the gangplank, but did not get to the top. He nearly faint ed when he met Walters. He offered him $250 in cash to let him go, Walters wanted to accept the money and let Zubof go, but Detective Dugan would not allow it. While the argument was going on the New York sailed.
 Zubof was then taken to the police court, where he described himself as a Russian count, and said that he was twenty-nine years old.
 According to Walters, he had regis tered at the Cambridge on December 15 last, and remained there until May 30. He had never paid a cent. He was asked for some money on account, and gave MT Walters draft for $250 on Edwin Corbin of Bonnet Bros. Detroit, Mich. The draft came back marked IN. e. His bill Up to date had amounted to $500.
 Magistrate Deuel held the alleged count under bail of like amount for ex- animation.
 His Boston Career. here about six or seven years ago, and had a very sensational career. When he first was known here he was taken up and made much of by many literary men, including ThoTas Bailey Aldrich. Then he cut wide swath in society, and was the protege of Mrs. Jack Gardner.
 After a time he was dropped, and in order to get what he termed revenge he wrote several novels of Boston social life under the name of Robert Appleton, which were the talk of two continents. The first of these books, Mrs. Henry St. John" created an immense stir on the Back Bay, and there was some talk of an effort to have the book sup pressed Zubof was last employed here on the Boston Globe.