The evening times., 1898-09-19
death FOLLOWS DEATH
A Young Man Seeks SOlace in
Suicide.
FINDS REST IN A RIVER
Alfred Manseau, Depressed by the
Demise of His Old Friend md Pro-
rector, Charles NJ. Hendricks,
Threatens to End His Life md
Carries Ont the Threat.

New York, Sept. 19.-In the North River
a body was found yesterday afternoon
1t lay in the morgue last night, mute evi-
dence that Alfred Manseau, twenty-seven
years old, had kept the threat he made
to kill himself when he went home on
the night of Sunday, September II, and
found his friend and protector, his 'un-
| cle,' as he called him, dead In bed
This strange story of an unhappy youth
| and an old man, between whom existed a
| mysterious bond of sympathy, was
brought to light by a city license taken
out for Clip, white Japanese poodle.
| Policeman Mccarthy saw the body
| floating off Pier II. He drew it ashore
| and found it to be that of smooth faced
| young man. fully dressed. The body had
been in the water for several days. In
the mans pockets were found dog license
| No. 1906, issued on May 3, 1897, TO Charles
| NJ. Hendricks, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Cath
| arine Street and East Broadway.
AT the Cosmopolitan Hotel yesterday it
was learned that Charles Hendricks, fif-
| ty-five years old, had died there on Sun
day, September IL, without medical at.
tendance. The man, an agent for ma
chinists' tools, had lived there for about
year with his adopted nephew, Alfred
Manseau.
They were most peculiar pair" said
Thomas Organ, who was in charge of the
hotel They used to sit whispering to-
gether for hours, but whenever anybody
went near them they closed up tight as a
| drum. The boy would never let anybody
enter their rooms.
THE old man was very fond of pets
He had a cat, two canary birds and Gyp
a valuable Japanese poodle, which died
| about two months ago. Hendricks was
wealthy at one time, and was the own
er of Firefiy, a celebrated racehorse
'Manseau, the French boy, was well
educated. He was graduated from La
| Sale University. He was with Hem
bricks for sixteen years, and together
| they had Travelled over the entire coun-
| try.
THE boy was addicted to the morphine
habit, his arms being literally perforated
| with pricks of the hypodermic SPRINGS
He also took cocoaine. The old man Oft
en- said he had spent big sums to cure
his nephew of the habit. He had plac-
ed him In sanitariums in Chicago and
elsewhere They bore no relation to each
other. but were in the habit of calling
each other uncle and nephew"
Alfred took a walk one day, and when
he returned found that Hendricks had
died suddenly. The coroner said it was
apoplexy. Alfred fell on his knees and
raved in his grief
You'll soon find my body in the river
he cried. 81 can't stand this blow.
There'll soon be another tragedy in the
papers"
Hendricks brother-in-law came the
next day from Middleboro, Mass, and
took charge of the body, which was sent
to Fall River. He made an offer to Man
| seau, who refused to accompany him. He
seemed to feel that his friends relatives
would not be so patient with him as his
protector had been.
Il don't think l care to live any more
now, uncle is gone" he said IT want
you to take care of the cat and the ca
naries."
He disappeared on Tuesday. When the
body was found Organ went to the Madi-
son Street station, and turned over to the
police several letters addressed to young
Manseau, which established his identity
and indicated where his relatives were to
be found. One of the letters is from his
sister, in Chicago, and another is from
his mother, in Louisville. The sister,
Ernestine. wrote from No. 663 West Thir-
teenth Street, Chicago.