The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-10
A BARGE OFFICE MURDER?
IMMIGRANT FOUND WITH HIS THRoI
CUT. UNDER A sTAIR.

Had scrnwled. as He Lny. n Note in Hun
| Rnrian, Saying: "He Cut Me because
Would Not Lend Him Money at Castle
| Garden"-The Man May be a Suicide.
| A dark-whiskered Hungarian who landed
yesterday at the Barge ONCE from the North
| German Lloyd steamship, Kaiser Wilhelm der
| Crosse. died last night In the Hudson street
| Hospital OF a wound in the throat inflicted
with long bladed pocket knife.
| He was found at 4 80 o'clock in the after
| noon. lying face down under short wooden
stairway leading from the ground floor OF the
Barge office to floor about ten feet above.
| Policeman Patrick Regan was among the first
| to SEQ the immigrant, who. while then con-
| scious. was unable to Talk. as his windpipe was
| severed. Marine Hospital surgeon in the
building attended the wounded man until n
| surgeon from the Hudson Street Hospital
| came.
Policeman McKeever who took charge
OF the case. reported at the Church
| street station that the immigrant
had cut his own throat No one could be found
who saw him do It: but there was three
| bladed pocket knife within foot from the
place where the man lay. with one thin. sharp.
four-inch blade open and bloody
Half an hour after the man had been taken to
| the hospital a blood-stained piece OF PASTE
| board containing note written roughly with
| heavy pencil was found under the stairway.
The writing was in Hungarian. and was
| signed " Hrostovics." Translated the note
| runs:
He cut me because 4 would not loan him
| money in Castle Garden"
| Immigrants all call the Barge Office Castle
| Garden. That is a name that Europe can't for.
get.
| The pedigree that the Immigrant had given
| to the registry clerk who examined him was:
| "Andras amborsky, cabinet maker, 81 years
| old, married. Of Eperies. Hungary" The inn
migrant said he had SO and that he expected
| to get work in this city
He was permitted to land. An agent
OF the Hungarian Society wanted to
take the immigrant away with him. but
| he was disinclined to go. II WAS supposed
| until he was found that he had left the Barge
| Office. as all the other immigrants had. He
had lost much blood when he was discovered
| and the ambulance surgeon said there was
little chance OF his recovery Tracheotomy
was done at the hospital to get air into his
| lungs. He died at 1OP. NJ.
The doctors had tried to find out by making
| signs to him whether he had cut himself or
not. but he was too far gone to understand
| them.
| Among the few things he had about him was
an envelope with the address OF Alexander
Arnold. a painter OF 10 Stuyvesant street
| Arnold and his wife were neighbors OF
the immigrant several years ago in
| Eperjes. Arnold says that the immigrants
name is Hambor. and that he comes OF good
family. One Of his brothers is a Catholic
priest. and his father is a Superintendent OF
City Work In Eperjes Mrs. Arnold. who
was visiting her family In her old
home three months ago. says that Ham
| Dor. Hamborsley. was good Catholic
and sober and skIlfu workman. He told her
that he was coming to New York soon as he
could get his passports. and that he expected
to bring his wife and three children here after
he got work. Mrs. Arnold said she did not
| believe that Hambor killed himself as he had
no reason for doing So
Detective Mooney said he thought the Inn
migrant would have been too weak to write
the note after cutting his throat.