The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-24
AND. W. JORDAN ASUICIDE.
SHOT HIMSELF IN TIE HEAD AT
MS BOARDING H0USE
A letter to n Friend Explained That ne HAD
Lost Money In Speculation In wall street
ana was Tired OF Lire-rwenty Years Ago
he was q weii-known Photographer.

Lost Money In Speculation In wall street
ana was Tired OF L~ire-TwentJ Years Ago
He WAS n weII-known photographer.
Andrew W. Jordan, who was a well.known
photographer twenty years ago, committed sui
eide yesterday in Miss kinEsland's boarding
house, 81 West Thirty-seventh street, by shoot.
ing himself in the head. Jordan was SO years
old. He had been living at the boarding house
for about a year, and was considered a man of
wealth, having retired from business with a
fortune. He began to speculate in Wall street
and his fortune dwindled away. Then his wife
opened q dressmaking establishment at II
West Thirty.ninth street. After that the couple
did not live together. Jordan going to board at
Miss kinRsland's.
Jordan had a room on the third floor, front.
The adjoining room was occupied by Charles
L. Mahony, a lawyer. who has offices in
Wall street. Mr.. Mahony was very friendly
with Jordan, and at q o'clock last night
as he was on his way up to his room he noticed
that the door Of Jordan's room was closed.
This was unusual, and Mahony. thinking his
neighbor might be i'll. knocked at Jordan's door.
and receiving no reply opened the door.
Jordan was seated on a chair near the win
dow, with his head resting on a writing table.
Mr.. Mahony went over to him. saying: What's
the trouble, Mr.. JordanT' There was no an
Swer, anu getting closer the lawyer saw that his
friend was dead. There was q wound in the
right side of Jordan's head.
A pistol lay on the dead mans lap. In his
left hand was a pen. A bottle Of ink was on the
table. with several sheets of writing paper and
half a dozen scaled letters. On one sheet were
these words:
AL IL over. The end is near"
Mr.. MahOny informed Miss Kingsland at
once and then notified the Coroners' office. 1t
was nearly midnight when Coroner Fitzpatrick
reached the house. He took charge OF the let
tiers. One Of them, addressed to DR.. Emerson, u
boarder in the house, suggested that the writer
had lost considerable money in Wall street spec
ulations and limited at suicide. He babe DR..
Emerson good-by and wished the physician
plenty Of good luck.
Inianother letter. addressedIto Miss Kingsland.
Jordan apolog.Zcd for what he was going to do
and hoped she would forgive him for spelling
her carpets.
Two OF the letters had stamps on the envelopee.
ready for posting. One Of these was addressed
to Jordan's nephew, who resides in Bloomfield,
N. J.
The other was addressed to his niece, an
actress, now playing at the Alcazar Theatre in
San Francisco. Coroner Fitzpatrick posted
these two letters. He took the nth letter
around to Mrs. Jordan.
The suicide had also left a note asking the
Coroner to deliver this letter personally to the
too Ill TO be about. so it was decided 10 keep the
letter from her until to-day.
Il Ia believed that Jordan shot himself about
half past . o'clock in the afternoon. as one OF
the servants in the house told the Coroner that
she heard the report of u pistol about that time.
but believed that the noise came from the ad-
Joining house.