The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-14
ANDREA DE GLORIA, ITALIAN VICE
CONSUL HERE, COMMITS
SUICIDE.
LARGE DOSE OF SULPHURlC
ENDED THE LIFE OF A MAN MUCH
RESPECTED IN THE CITY
OF ST. PAUL.
WAS UNDER A HALLUcINATION.
Had Locked Himself I'm His Room
Under Belief the Police Were
After Him.

Andrea De Gloria, Italian vice coun-
sui in st. Paul, and one of the city's
oldest and most highly resp ccted Italian
residents, died at the city hospital
shortly after o'clock last evening from
the effects Of a large dose Of sulphuric
acid, taken earlier in the day with sui
cidaI intent
The fatal potion was imbibed about
9 o'clock yesterday morning, when Mrs.
Joseph Salerar a married daughter Of
the dead man, with whom he lived at
Is West Third street, knocked on his
| bedroom door to arouse him for break
fast. The old man answered that he
would be out Immediately, and a mo-
ment later, rushed from the room
screaming with pain. Mrs. Salera was
alone at the time and the sight almost
! distracted her, though she threw her
arms about her father and begged him
to tell her what was the matter. Pay
ing no attention to the questions, De
! Gloria tore hfmseslf from the embrace,
and grasping wildly at his breast,
rushed out Of a side door to the street.
Failing to the sidewalk in terrible
| agony, he cried:
1t IS death! | die! dle!
When DR.. Stamm arrived, in response
| to a hurried summons, he found the
old man apparently resting easily and
able to tell what had happened. He
had drank a whisky glass nearly full
Of sulphuric acid, he said, which had
been kept in his room since the G. A.
r. encampment, when he had used it
to initiate toy balloons. No reason for
the rash act was given by the old man
upon whom the virulent poison again
began to show it's effect
After endeavOring to cOunteract the
| immediate effect of the poison, DR..
Stamm ordered De Gloria taken to the
! city hospital and his sOn-in-law,
| Joseph SaIera, who had returned home
in the meantime, accompanied him
to the institution in a carriage. On
the way De Gloria talked nationally,
said he had taken the poison intention
| ally, though he shortly contradicted
this statement and claimed he had
mistaken the acid for whisky At
the hospital De Gloria retained cons
| ciousness until death relieved his suf-
fering, again admitting to his son-in-
law that he had purpose1y swallowed
the poison.
| Both Mr.. and Mrs. Salera are positive
! that De Gloria intended killing himself,
/ but they say that the old man has
! undoubtedly been irrational since the
! death of his wife year ago. He had
lived with them from that time and
/ constantly, it is said, acted in a strange
manner. Recently the old mans aff1ic-
/ tiOn became more marked and Dr.
| Stamm was called to examine him only
last week. For some time De Gloria
! had labOred under the haIlucinatiOn
that he was being sought by the police,
and frequently cOnfided to his son-in-
| law that he feared arrest for an imagi-
nary offence. During the last two
weeks the old man locked himself in
his room and refused to leave the house
Last Friday he told an Italian friend
that he could have the acid with which
he took his life, but when the man
! came for it Saturday morning, De
! Gloria refused to allow him in his room
| to get it.
Mrs. Salera is De Gloria's only sur
Viving relative in this country She
and her husband conduct a cOnfectiOn-
cry business at rs West Third street
in which they were installed by the
dead man.
De Gloria was one Of the best known
Italians in the city, and was regarded
with respect by the entire Italian col
| Ony He was the head of the race in
this city, from whom every Italian
sought advice in trouble, and assistance
| in poverty, which was never refused.
| When the news Of his poisoning spread
! among the Italian residents yesterday
they visited his daughter in large num-
| bers, sOlicitous for his welfare. His
death will cast a gloom over his cOun-
| trymen in st. Paul.
In addition to occupying the position
Of vice consul, being subject to the
! consul at Chicago, De Gloria was
prominent in Italian social and secret
/ society circles, having but recently re-
| signed the presidency of the Society
! of Christopher Columbus" He was
| also q member of the "SOcieta Dante
Aligheri Di Mutuo Succoso," a mutual
| benevolent organization, and was the
! former proprietor of an extensive mac
/ arOni factory, which he started some
! years ago He was also a musician Of
| ability, by which means he extended his
acquaintance beyond Italian circles. De
/ Gloria was fifty-three years old and
/ has resided in St. Paul for the last
/ eighteen years, having come here from
/ Milwaukee. He came to the United
I States two years before the great Chi
! cago fire, and with his family, escaped
! the flames which devOured that city,
/ having lived there at the time.