The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-10-02
CHAPTER OF SUICIDES
Suicidal Mother Asphy1iates -Four
Children and Herself.
A BRIDEGR00M's LEAP TO DEATH.

Jumped From the Window OF . New
York Hotel and Left His Bride of a
Day q Widow Two Philadelphia
Suicides.
New York. Oct. "A woman and her
four children were found dead by as
phyxiation ip the West Shore hotel.
Forty-second street and Eleventh ave-
nue., yesterday morning. The woman
had evidently killed her children and
committed suicide.
The victims Of the terrible tragedy
were the wife and children of Robert
Rivinius. an enlisted man in the United
States army at West Point. Rivinius is
printer in the administrative build
ing. He has been in the army 80 years,
and expects to be retired in July next.
He was. greatly moved on receiving
news of the death of his wife and chill
dren. He is German and speaks En-
.glish imperfectly. He was SO excited
that he could give no coherent account
Of his family.
Laura, the Oldest Of the children, was
Is, William -, Albert and Elizabeth
4 years old. Mrs. Rivinius was 49, Mrs.
Victor Laher. sister Of Mrs. Rivinius,
says that the trip Of her sister-in-law
to New York was merely little pleas
ure exclusion, as the children had had
no outing during the summer.
1t is surmised that Mrs. Rfvinius
waited until the children were asleep
before she began her deadly work. The
task of stuffing up all the holes in the
room that would allow the gas to es-
cape must have consumed over an hour.
The woman and the children were In
their night clothes when found. By the
sides of the beds were found their two
trunks. Their contents had been scat
tered about. Some Of the clothing had
been torn up for the stufang up of the
cracks. There was O small amount of
money in her pocketpocket.
There were ten other suicides in and
about the city yesterday, in addition
to Mrs. Rivinius and DR.. Flagg. They
were: Harmon s. Burt Of Norwich,
Conn, poison; c. K. Royce. San Fran
cisco. asphyxiation; Theodore Miller,
shooting: Ralph Knoche, carbolic acid;
E. L. Hafner and Frank C. Holly,
asphyxiatiOn; Mrs. Bertha Hummel,
carbolic acid; Julia Quito, carbolic acid;
George Martizl, cut his throat with
broken glass; Michael Walsh, poison.
BRIDEGROOM'S FATAL LEAP.
Threw Himself From Hotel VIM
dow, Leaving q Bride of Day.
New York, Oct. DIR. Robert N,
Flagg, 3S years of age, of Yonliers, N.
,bo ~ria v, 10,
night, committed suicide yesterday by
jumping from second story window
Of the Murray Hill hotel. When picked
up DR.. Flagg had his skull fractured,
his leg broken, and he had received Sc
we're bruises of the body. Mrs. Flagg,
who was Miss Eleanor Hurner, a
professional nurse in the Yonkers hos
pital, about 26 years old, and decidedly
good looking, said that in CONVEX
sation with her husband the latter had
become greatly excited and rushed to
the window to jump out She tried to
restrain him, but he thrust her aside |
and jumped. Physicians say lie was a
victim of acute mania.
DIR. Flagg was the Oldest son of the |
late DIR. Levi N. Flagg, and the de-
scendant of one Of the first families
that settled in West Chester county. |
He was identified prominently with
number of organizations in Yonkers,
and was member Of the board Of d. |
rectors of William F. Cochran's Work.
ing Mems club, known as the Holly
wood Inn.
1t is well known In Yonkers that the
doctor was suffering from some mental
trouble by reason of the business fail |
ure of Howard w. and George A. |
Flagg. his brothers. Dr. Flagg had in
dorsed large amount of paper for the |
firm, which conducted large hat man.
in Yonkers.
He resided with his aged mother and |
two unmarried sisters. For the past |
few days he had been acting Queerly. |
and on Thursday afternoon he left for |
New York city, informing his relatives
that he would not return until morning. |
He did not say anything of his intended
He was prominent men,
Der Of the First Presbyterian church
of Yonkers.