New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-23
SUICIDE or HORACE WALL.
AN OLD THEATRICAL MANAGERS PREPA-
RATIONs FOR DEATH.
SHOT HIMSELF AFTER WRITING MANY LETTERS
AND HIS OBITUARY

AND HIS OBITUARY
With the most careful preparation and In the
most methodical manner Horace WALL theatri-
cal manager and Mason. shot and Killed himset
in a room on the second floor Of the Putnam House
ar Twenty-sixth-st and Fourth-ave.. yesterday.
AT $50 D. m Susie SchnelL chambermaid Of the
hotel tried the door OF Mr.. Walls room Usually
she finds the key Of the room on the outside put
this time there not only no key nut the noor
was securely locked She knocked once or twice
and as she received no answer. her suspicious ne
came aroused ms Mr.. Wall was particular IN the
matter OF having his cleaned at certain
hour
She went to the watchman and told him or nor
suspicious, and the watchman opened the door OF
the room with pass key. When he opened the
door he saw Wall lying the floor dead In MS
outstretched hand was a revolver and there was
wound in the back Of the head and another near
the right temple.
on the table lay a number Of letters. with post
age stamps affixed In corner Of the room was
a bundle Of canes and umbrellas neatly tied ana
there was number OF bundles tied and wrapped
up all Of which were directed to Mrs. Addc Wall
OF clifford Conn one OF the letters. which was
omen. was addressed 70 Edwin Knowles. the pro-
prietor ~ the Fifth Avenue Theatre. The dead
man asked Mr.. Knowles TO see 10 MS funeral ana
to have his body cremated and the ashes sent 20
his wife He asked Mr. Knowles 10 telegraph 10
HIS wife IN Guiford and drew up the form or dis-
patch to be sent He also requested that dispatch
he sent 10 his mother-in-law. Mrs. Irene r. Hudley
and drew up the form. and asked that II DC sent
TO C;uilford lie also asked that his sister. Mrs
Charles Merrill Of Allendale. y. j., be apprlsed OF
his death. and prepared form for tha' olspat,n
and said that the New-York papers would give the
time and place Of his funeral He asked that Mel
son TIFFANY OF the Masonic Life Association or
Western New York. be informed He reques'ed
that merely the death he told in the letter lie sald
that George w Anderson. secretary OF his Ma
md n
take care OF his body He then pathetically SAID
that his family was destitute. He asked that zoo
be forwarded 70 his wife for immediate needs ana
that this money he deducted from the pohcy lot
& crO on his life in the Masonic Life Association
Of Western New-York.
A bundle Of manuscript ne requested TO ne sent
70 Mrs Mary Pacheco. No. SS Boulevard Terrace
oakland cal and that the exprcssage oe paid IN
California He wished that his death might be at
tributed 10 an overdose OF drug taken TO allay
pain. This was the only solace ne sao' no 'oU'u
offer 10 his family IN their afhiction
The letter was long one. and referred 70 many
ereonal and secret-order matters Of an uninterest
tho character He closed with fraternal farewell
The care taken by Wall was shown by the prepa-
ration Of an obituary. This was written WIN s'e"O
precision II was headed like "A newspaper artlc,7
and WAS arranged IN paragraphs. II was Hs Io'-
lows:
HORACE WALL.
last tbirty-hve years. He was born In TINS cl'y on
July is 1857 He was a graduate OF the Free Acad-
onny now the College OF the city Of New orK' He
spent fifteen years as actor, when ne lurheu
his attention to management, since whlch UNI UNI
he had conducted the business or the mos l no.ru
dramatic celebrities Dion Boucicault, h. 4 SoHnerH
W j. Florence John r.. owens, Mrs Johh "oou'
John & Clarke and Edwin Adams -.
After touring these stars he Leased tne -\e"-
Haven Opera House which he conducted Tot seN-
erai years since that time ne had been associated
with The control OF various travelling companies,
which met with variable success.
"A widow and five children survive him, VINO re-
side i'm the old homestead in Guilford. Conn
He leff many letters directed 20 MS wife. FRANK
G Cotter and members Of the dramatic fraternity
and the Masonic order
In the corridor OF the hotel yesterday afternoon.
while a policeman was awaiting the arrival OF the
Coroner, there was an old man apparently an
actor stridng up and down. Tie appeared 10 be a
friend OF the dead man When asked why II vas
that Wall had committed suicide he said. Because
he had lived TOO long in this country OF ours and
couldn't make q living: that was the matter
Wall was well known 10 all the Od-timers. He
made a large amount Of money as manager os
various companies but IN latter years seemed 70
have lost much OF his money In travelling COM
panles some one IN the Motel said that he heard
shots at about $50 o'clock Yesterday morning, but
pafd no attention to them. The man had been dead
Tor many hours before he was discovered.