The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-06
JUMPED IN RARITAN BAY.
WAR VETERAN WILLIAM DUBERs
NELL ENDS HIS RUINED LIFE.

his store ana His Homo in williams
burE HAD Been Loot - To Failed e
Get mn Increase or His Pension - His
MIND Unbalanced by = Series OF Failures.
SOUTH ANNOY, N. j., June ga man sup
posed to be William Dubernoll Of 125 Even
street, Brooklyn, committed suicide by drown
ing In Raritan Bay early this morning. The
body was recovered and taken to tho shop OF
Undertaken scully. whore It is held awaiting
positive Identification.
Shortly before 1 o'clock this morning James
Wiley, q yardmastcr of tho Pennsylvania Rail-
road, and Charles Grace, also an employee of the
road, saw aman, evidently about 30 years old,
wearing a dark suit Of clothes, dark overcoat,
and black derby hat walk past them along the
tracks Of the Perth Amboy division of the Penn
sylvania road. He was going towark New York.
Six hundred yard east from where Wiley and
Grace were standing and southwest OF the
wost end of the railroad bridge which
spans Raritan Bay from this place
to Perth Amboy is the New brunswick steam.
boat dock. II extends out in the bay about 100
yards. A t this dock a brick scow was tied up.
Fifteen minutes after the stranger passed down
the tracks the Captain of the scow ran up in the
Pennsylvania freight yards and told Wiley and
Grace that a man had jumped Off tho dock.
When the three men got to the dock they saw
the body floating between two Of the piers. An
oysterman towed it ashore. Wiley and Grace
identified the body as that OF the man who
passed them on the tracks.
Coroner Haines. who 1amine the body, failed
to Find any marks Of violence. He learned,
in addition to what Wiley and Grace told him,
that the Captain Of the scow and August Behn.
q Waterman at the Pennsylvania shipyard, saw
In the mans pockets were found papers show.
served in Company K. Twentieth New YoPs
Volunteers. and that he was a pensioner. The
Il a III mi fhA ltanhn rna rara-u AVID "a -
puma IN p the Pcc iss u ali bore the sps name sn Of wiz vii:
liam Dubernell. There was also So cents, a deed
out 70 William DubeTneIi, and showing. that a
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found, signed William Duborneii, ,i25 Even
blinss Of an evidently diseased mind about a
scheme for sending 2 man from Boston to Wash
h i%slS blue eyes Ses'4 ilEsR Rtn h tfGm and a sIi light i mea saiSa6s
fbR{ ac I and w hot s5s a bl. ats oy Satssay suit was
William Dubernell had been a lodger at tho
occiden tall Hotel %s:; st e. 6 5SweEy and BFoons
1 business %sfl In Tssb;In M9en f Fo1 lf more sf iEans el si + esa
i is Even D@Os stPss!. VIII W%PIiia a nsSs1S1 snd i!r ssif over a.
the store with his wife. At one time he owned
street house, but pt a few years ago he began bet
m mGndsy' Last Teis winter sssns Mrs. to Dub snhs1rnS Ssoa his
III and went to ST. Catharine's Hospital. The
AAp priP, s and wa aeS boas aa' sS'9 PS Shfsr FeId@sn. Sh 6o
dispossessed Dubernell. About three weeks ago
Dubernell appeared on the sidewalk in front of
his former home and raised a disturbance. A
policeman ordered him away. On leaving he
said he would never return. Mrs. Dubernell left
the hospital a week ago, and is living with her
brother. Frederick Keoller, at 13 West Eighty
third street, this city.
Dubernell drew a pension for injuries received
during the war. He made frequent trips to
Washington in the endeavor to have his pension
| tnrTanRR6 M WAS AWAY G unGnrNaECfnl and NM
regarded by many of his scquaintances as o
crank on the subject.