The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-28
DEAD ATTHE MURRAY HILL
yoUyG WOMAN POISONs HERSELF
Nv THE HOTEL.

nh. was in Lovo with n Married Man. who
r,tended 10 Marry Her when tie Got n
n,,orcc-Ths Hotel People Attempt TO Pre-
,cpt tho Suicide from becoming Known,
BECAUSE OF an ENHANCEMENT with n married
uor ol.ycar.old Johanna Schomberg OF 1893
ros, End avenue killed herself with poison
oorly Yesterday morning at tho Murray Hill
,io,rl 4 young and presumably ineNperi.
o,rcd hotel clerk did his best to conceal tho
Identity Of the suicide by classifying the hotel
,oyi,tcr IA soon as no learned that the girl had
poisoncd herself. Her identity was discovered
from a card in her purse, and tho cause for her
sucidc was revealed by the statements OF her
norcnts and Of Herman B~rockmcycr, the man
IN the case,
Miss Schombcrg went TO tho Murray Hill
about IL O'Clock Thursday night, registered,
and was assigned to room 335, for which she
maid -. Previously she had been to tho Grand
Union, where tho clerks told her that there
were no vacant rooms. 1t is unusual for high
class hotels to admit young and unmarried
women late at night, particularly If they have
mo luggage. After registering Mt the Murray
Hill the girl went directly TO her room. and
nothing more was heard OF her until about g
o'clock yesterday morning, whom the watch
man. John Lightfoot, heard groans from her
room, and, going there, found her on the bed
moaning and writhing. DIR. Walter d. Sewell,
tho hotel physician. diagnosed the case as ono
nj poisoning. A small bottle in the bottom Of
which was some reddish fluid was on a stand
near the bed. Tho physician asked the girl
what had been In the bottle and why she had
drunk IL. She said, so family that he could
hardly catch the words, something about a mcdi.
cine for external use. Seeing that she was in
a very serious condition, DIR. Scwell went out to
send for an ambulance. When he returned the
girl was dead.
Then began the attempt on the part of tho
hotel people to bccloud the case, presumably
with the intention of making il appear that the
young woman had not died in the hotel. Her
name was scratched from the register and over
1t was written. M. J. Shane" The room num-
Der was changed from 335 to 2l7. DR.. Scwell
was instructed to say that he had had no such
case in the hotel, and to the first inquircrs he
did say this, but afterward admitted that he
had attended the girl. Finally the clerks put
all possible obstacles in tho way Of Policeman
MadeGan of the Grand Central Station, who
was sent over TO investigate. He found the
girls name in her pocketbook and word was
sent TO her parents.
Mr.. Schomberg, who is a retired commission
merchant, made responsible for his daughters
suicide Herman ,Brockmeyer, a barber, and u
married man, who has not lived with his vito
for several years., Johanna was infatuated
with B~rockmeyer, he said. and had pinned for
hin when she was sent away to Hartford last
spring. OF late she had been keeping house for
her brother.in-law, Mr.. Wittel. while Mrs. Wit.
tel was IN the hospital. On Sunday she went TO
Rockaway with Brockmeyer and on Monday
morning her mother found this note under tho
door:
Il have decided not TO come home again.
You had better get Mr.. Wittel another maid of
al work. ~JoHASSA.'
BrOckmeycr is employed at Pearl and Beaver
streets, where he was found yesterday.
She told me she would do it," he exclaimed
on learning of the suicide. but | didn't believe
her. She came to Taurh's saloon last night TO
sec me and said that she was tired OF life. Her
home life was miserable, she said, and she was
never going back again. l cheered her up and
gave her S2.25, telling her to go to a hotel and
get a good sleep and she would feel better. She
promised she wouldn't do anything rash until
she saw NE again. | had told her IL I ever got
free from my wife / would marry her, and I
meant to do so, but she became Respondent
about my ever getting free"
Some days ago a neighbOr told Mrs. Schom.
berg that Johanna was living with a young
physician somewhere in the Tenderloin district,
but the Schonbergs do not believe this. They
say that Johanna has always been a girl Of good
character and that her unfortunate infatuation
for ~Brockmeyer was the only waywardness she
has ever shown. She was a Kings Daughter
and a member Of the Olive Presbyterian Chapel.
The body was removed to an undertaker's shop
on permit Of Deputy Coroner Donlin.