The sun., 1901-11-10
OLD MAN DEAD, ARTERIES CUT
MESSAGE TO DAUGHTER: PLL BE
DEAD BEFORE YOU REACH ME.
From Her Word Went to Brother. TO I'm
dertaker. TO Coroner, to Police, VINO
Found Limerick Hiss, Misery Cabinet
maker, Dead in building He Owned


maker. Dead In building He Owned.
Limerick Kiss a cabinetmaker, Is years
old, committed suicide yesterday morn
ing at 100 Mercer street by cutting the
arteries Of both arms with a razor. Inc
old man was well known In the neighbor-
hood and owned the building in which ne
killed himself, II Is three-story brick
building, and Kiss, a few years ago, re-
fused an offer of SIS 600 for 1t. He rented
the house for offices and slept In the base
| ment His wife and two daughters i've
at II2 Bloomfield street. Hoboken'
Kiss was very particular as to his tenants,
with the result that only the top floor oi
the building Is occupied at present. Ihere
were two fires some time ago on the prem
ises. and he was so much afraid, 1t Is SAID
of getting burned out that he moved from
his home in Hoboken and kept guard over
the Mercer street house. For the past
two weeks kiss had lived on the first floor,
having moved his cot up there on account
of the approaching winter. He sent a
letter by messenger yesterday morning
10 his daughter Mary. in which he SAID
hat by the time she received 1t he would
be dead. He inclosed in the letter the
keys of the house.
The daughter hurried to New York and
told her brother, limerick Kiss. Jr., who
lives at 30s East Twelfth street. He no
titled a Hoboken undertaken. who reported
the case to the Coroner's office. The police
of the Macdougal street station were told
by the Coroner's Office to investigate
the case, and Policeman Walsh was sent TO
the building. The basement is reached
- thrnnub
an iron grating which extends the whole
front Of the house. This entrance was pad
locked. and the door leading into the house.
which Is used by the other occupants OF
the building was also padlocked securely.
Policeman Walsh waited until the under
| taker. accompanied by the dead man 2
son, reached the building at 4 O'Clock In
the afternoon. The door on the first floor
was unlocked, and a search was made
The old cabinetmaker was found lying
| dead on the floor about ten feet away from
the cot, with big cash on each arm just
| above the elbow. A blood-stained razor
which lay on the cot In the room told the
story Of suicide. The old man had evi-
| dehty slashed his arms with the razor
while lying on his army cot, and then,
when he began to get weak from loss oil
blood. had crawaled toward the bathroom
His body, when found, was partially COW
| cred with a blanket.
The police looked upon II as rather sin gu
lar that the dead man should be lying SO
| far aw ay from the cot, and that his body
should be covered with blanket. All
| the windows in the plac" were found to be
shut and fastened, and both entrances
securely padlocked. The son OF the dead
man told the police that he believed his
| father got entrance by a side door, on
| the first floor. which he closed and locked
after padlocking the front door. He said
| he entertained no suspicious OF foul play
Coroner's Physician O'Hanlan gave per-
nit TO remove the body to the Hoboken
residence.
Kiss was regarded in the neighborhood
az a crank and was very frugal in his ha bits.
Every morning at o'clock he would sally
forth to n neighboring grocery store and
buy pint Of milk and a loaf OF bread
Then he would be invisible for the remainder
Of the day, and the neighbors cay that his
morning purchase covered all that he
bought When his body was searched
only 23 cents was found In his pockets
His son said last night that his father had
been suffering from bronchial trouble for
years, and had talked over and over again
of ending his life The old man came 10
this country from Hungary about fifty
years ago. and being an expert al his trade,
IN we'd considerable money and bought the
Mercer street house. The police will in
ypstiRate further.