New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-09

RUDOLPH LOMMER. \ FORMER CITY EN-
PLOYE DISAPPEARS LEAVING LET
TIERS WHICH PUZZLE THE PO-
LICE AND HIS WIFE.

Has Rudolph G.ommer OF No 80 East Seventy
third-st committed suicide? This l. the question
that is distractIng Mrs. Lommer and disturbing
the police of the Arsenal In Central Park and OF
the East sixty-sovsnth-st. station. Last evening
Joseph M1chovsky. an undertaken at 40. LIS Ave-
nue. \ received posial-card from letter carrie.
ON the back OF the card was the following
You viii ind my body in he lake at Eighth
ave and seventy -Sccoud-s;. and Central farK.
You Will find q letter IN Annic's hatbox. When
nv body Is found take il 20 the house. want 10
bee buried Friday morning. Before you tell any
body 20 ard tell my VII" 10 give you the letter.
"EUDOLPH LOMMER"
Tho message was written IN the bohemian Ian
gragc and s,.mcI to have been written hurri'uy
and as n the writer was laboring under some great
, stress OF mind Machovsky went 70 the home OF
Iommcr but neither h. nor his wife WAS at nome.
Nachovskv thought the postal-card was JOKE.
and he expected to nnd Lommer there lie asc't-
taIned that Iomncr left the house at noon ycSt"r-
day and told one OF the women In the house 70
s,, r,odbv to his VIII, FOR him. When Mrs Lom-
mer returned from her work last evening me
woman told her what her husband had instructed
her 10 do Mrs Lommcr paid no attention TO the
farewell OF her husband. as delivered 10 h'T Dy "
reighbor and placed significance IN II. She
told the neighbor that sometimes Lommer hKcd a
,oke and she thought that this time he was play
ing on hcr.
Tbe r,der,ak.r called 4, the house second tim"
and found Mrs i,onmer al home. Ho showed h'r
the postaI-card he had received. ana Tor the hI7'
time Mr. Lommcr bccam" alarmed. She now sa"
some significance In the farewell of her husband
She told the girl. Annie. TO bring her hatboX Ia
,be b,tbox were found two lctt,-s They wer" hoih
written In bohemian. tn" first read ~ fol
lows;
MY Dear WIFE. To-day az l. Is the last see
YOU. When YOU went 20 work ana said goodbY
without seeing you You forgive me everything
and Won viii find I'm Anuc's hatbox letters eX-
plaining nv action and preparations nave nhdc
for my funeral Would Ike To haN" lun"rai on
sunday from Mr. MdchOVsky UNDERTAKING PIaI"
Nv dear wife. to-day l. the last DAY OF my nIo.
and / beg Of YOU to forgive me. cannot tel You
,he rcaeon Live happy my dear darling WE
Don't have any music al my funeral
Another letter was found without date or an-
dress. and appears TO have b"'ilhs on w, 80
c,so I'm IL the writer again bade his VIE FAR
v,,u and rcpeatrdy asked for forgiveness. me
letter also contained a list OF names "i men !"
whom the writer said he owed money. -
Hammer has been ont OF Work Tor nearly EfhI
Mr. Iommcr says that she did not know THIS. ana.
~ Iommer always had money. sh" supposed ina
he was still working. Iomm.r was lhst tmPloye'i
as inspector Of water meters III tlc D'pdI lh,ll vi
and dabblcd in politics. While his WE was un-
ov,aro Of his enforced dleness, his iriends knew
well that he unemployed go ,. -,
Mrs Iommer WAS distracted with grief when she
had committed suicide. Tho police AT me, ArS'hal
were Informed. and the Park was searched; but up
to a late hour tdingS were learned OF the man
Sergeant NcClynn has instructed all IN" men 10
icon a watch out for Lommer, and his description
has bcen furnished by Mrs. Lommer
The police think that l.ommcr has Dccofne n
sane His letters inCohcrent ana VIC re
saws that he committed suicide on August n ana
he was seen to leave the house at noon yesterday.
II Is thought that worry over non-employment mas
unbalanced the mans BRAIN