New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20
HAD NOTHING TO LIVE FOX.
A STRANGE CASE OF SUICIDAL MANIA IN
THE TENDERLOIN

voune man. whose features were ulstor'e'
with pain and whose hair was all disordcred' stag
vered into the West Thirtieth-st police s'a,'o
about o'clock last night. and laying reVos.'
on the desk in frt Mt Of Sergeant Daiy STU
no use. sergeant; can't do II. l trIed tns "i'e
noon but the bullet wouldn't take enec'. III VI
Of living and want you to put ou"e' Il" ny
body and end this misery. l.,
tIa,f dozen policemen. who were lounging III
the polioe station, glaEced up at the you"e mo,
who made this remarkable request, ana ''''e'
u,aa beard while two or three of the policemen
no,nted sympatheticelly to their foreheaos' i"o
man looked at them in surprise Iheh ne sio" :,
'.~,,,.onoa hts overcoat removed his coat anp
wa,stcoat. and tearirg open his sh'r' ia'" '"'e
a gaming wound Just over the near.
cernoon, DaIv rushed from behind the desk, ana
crashing the man about the po"s :,
n.ourd about It were unmistakaoie MARKS .,
"o'''' An ambulance call rung. ana
.son nusb,ng the man into a seat, the serse""'
asked him how 1t occurred r ror-
"Nv name" said the stranger, Is fhihp To-
derline I am twenty-tnree years o'u ' o
and am an insurance agent uhtil IL" ' '"'
'". oonno tod with the New-York Life insurance
Company at Nos. S4s and S4s hroau"a' aood and
., ,Ife NV mother and father are Doth ue'u' n"1
= ha,,o ,o,hnp TO live for" He went on 10 'e.i
h,,,, s,orv the substance OF which was .na'
on Thursday he went TO the Aulic ho'e'' " -,
tv-dfth-st and Broadway ana paid W. 80, dor
t., ADVANCE He secured room on the 'ri'u ''o'
wos,ar,ov morning he went down town ana re-
turned 70 the hotel about O'Clock undea I'd Ie ,hen
auence OF liquor. He went 10 NJ n iU USn ~
d nuedheo n,enarations for taking his NE goa, >,
"I col into bed after removing my coat anu oysr mn
no I'D and opening my shirt pulled tne oY' -, be
So7,, aS mo closely so deaden the sounu T.,
anv, ,i iehot no then took my revolver anu pc psh hr .
+ over my heart pulled the trlgger hor awoke
nothing else until about O'CLOCK Whem nend and the
Tho bedcothes saturated Win piYoI, ,arn,ned
main from the wound was ierrlic, SO .r l uS @ ,a ~
:" 90 to the station house and give my ser p was
rsanderlines pedigree was taken, anu t ne ,,as
,hcn sent TO bellevue Hospital. where ne, ne The
od IN tho prison ward. 1t was evident ttae & ue
bullet had glanced from his ribs instead sxc,tedy o
,rattne the body In the hospital the man ana
hegged the doctors to kill him re M wa' uanf mi, ~
ouGeted and under the influence OF orla.es ha ana
eeen When examined at Bellevue ne sanu Ia IA lii Iii
no, intend TO do any work, and that ne wEu'' rr.
himself as soon as ne got a chafice frnr, MS
smith and Preston extracted the pur puIle. iar ~
ief, breast They said that he wouiu ,r oo,h.
rendering is rather nce-looking a%ild % brother.
shaven He told the police that he had ~ ~, s,
in-law named George T.. Sternberg VINO 10 T. shro,,c
ness AT No q Chambers-st. and lves a. o,bar in.
Heights n j.. and he asked that ms ms a"iic hear
law might be Informed. No one In me Au,'0 Az, Lnown
the pistol-shot yesterday. and II was Made mo there
that an attempt at suicide had peen ""ue ~
until the police went 70 the hotel