New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-21
BANKER CUTS HIS THROAT
". SELIGM4N ARRESTED.
Suicide attempted at Hotel
UOman zCith Him.

~ OH6uH SStth IfHt.
Washington Seligman. banker and broker. son
of James seligman and brother of Jefferson Selig-
man. found in his room at the Hotel Ross
more last night with a deep cash in the right side
of his throat He was taken to Roosevelt Hospital.
a prisoner OF PatroIman Heuck, of the West Thir-
tieth-st station charged with attempting to COM
mt suicide
Mr. seIignlan who is business at No 81 Broad
way ard is reputed wealthy. dined last night
with woman in the dining room OF the Rossrnore-
After dinner the couple took the elevator and were
conveyed to the second floor. on which IS Sulte
les that occupied by SeHgman- This was about
1:30 O'Clock
Half an hour later the annunciator in the hotel
ofTice showed a call from Suite l9s negro cali-
bow known as shorty was sent TO answer the
call. He knocked at the door OF IoS' anu dccoru-
ing to his story. opened by woman VINO
told him to run around and inform Dr- Augustus
A Molony. 0 No 238 West Forty-second-st-' thAt
ne was wanted at The boy Olo dS nc Hdu
been bidden DR. MOlOny was at nome anu AU'
ried around the hotel
when got there" said the doctor afterward
II found Mr.. Selignan partly undressco- Olseolns
from a deep cash in the right side OF the u1Od'-
l made an examination and found that Ihe Jusu4al
had not been severed. l told Mr.. Sehgrnan that ne
had better go to hospital. and went downstairs
and called up Roosevelt Hospital. in response 70
which DR.. Miller came and took 5eh6nlah
l did not learn how the man came by the Vu~
The police were not informed OF what nad Oc-
CURED. but PatroIman Henry HeucK' On "NO'0
beat the Ross1nore is. saw the ambulance drive up
TO the door. and investigated he went up u
seligman's room and found the banker Iy4hs oH
his bed in a pool of blood and towers aFounU LIS
throat.
..vTb, didn't Won let me finish the job? Take
away these towels is what Heuck says the m
iured man greeted him with. Some ciothes wee
mt on him and he was taken downstairs 10 tne
ambulance. He not too weak 10 VAIN O.
though he had to be supported
ACTED AS IF SHE HAD AUTHORITY
There was great excitement in the hotel when
tbe news was circulated. 1t was told that seLs-
r,.r had tried to commit suicide and many per
sons crowded into the room These were oroereo
out by a handsome brunette, dressed IN a klnnona'
who acted as If she had some authority 10 Oe
there.
Proprietor Wilkes of the Rossmore. was mucn
exercised when Heuck announced that he "ouIo
have to make Seligman prisoner on tIie oHN' 90
OF attempting to commit suicide He said:
absurd to Suppose that N y rsatRg ssEWaa and G0Ra R
everything to make aaman n h1g9y Rod 5e1ieVs any
such thing Of him. The fact is that ne wa 1b 1so9
himself and being very nervous man, M ss &c ONLY a
scratch and / don't why so much Iuss SIS snoqu %
be made Of it AS 70 any a woman H Dens rsscepton room
in his and it is possible tina that F9S M has seae beeH
a guest here for about two years.
Although Mr. Wilkes called the wound mere
scratch, Dr. Miller said differently. and shorty
the coIored boy. said: 'It may have oeen Only
scratch but there powerful lot OF bIooa.
Proprietor wilkes added that although MI Sels-
man "a not a total abstalner, he is very ao-
Etemous man -
TUhsr rIuec1x decided to place SegInan under ar
rest he accompanied the ambulance to hoossxeL' el
Hospital from where he telephoned the west IhiE-
tt.tb-st station that he wished TO come down ana
make his report and asked that another o4Acei
he sent to the hospital In response FaIroIiila-i
Leonard was sent to the hospita- 10 Aeep "1
Tfcruan
in his undergarments when the doctor alIl'eN -
response to the call
MEMBER OF STOCK EXCHANGE
washfngton SeIigman is member OF tne otooN
Exchange. Formerly he was member OF INC -. - =
OF seIigman 8. Van Antwerp, whlch par SIP,
however was dissolved some years ago aIteI IL M
.5r-s6 onlv ten months Since then he has Dseh
IN business for himself, but it is UNDERSTOOD 'ia'
he has not handled very large anounN oI - 60,
actions although he went frequently do"htO"A 0iI0
-,,.s saen often on the of the Stock Exchange
Ne ia a son of James Seligman. who Is partner
IN the trm of J. & W. Sengnan. with offices In the
Mills Building He is forty-hve years old ne mas
four brothers-Jefferson. De Witt )" SaI1luel =
and Eugene jefferson Seilgman IS ai5o : pa -
in the firm of J. & W. Seigman Eugene Is
I,,,er he Witt j. is also member OF the STOCK
T,xrhange. James Selgman. the father IS nearly
eighty wears DID, and lives with JEFFERSON at No -
East Sixty-nintn-st ,,. -.
when CAPTAIN O'Connor Of the Tenderloin sta
- learned of the affair he sent Detective James
Armstrong to the hospital to see the injured man
Armstrong afterward gave this account OF the IN
tervtew he had with Seligman;
yrent 20 the bedside where Mr.. SeLSIIan "sts
ord ne was then unconscious, or seIl-COtsC4OVILS
hf+orygard ne came 70 himself and asked h!1
~ he had tried TO commit suicide ne repLisu. gu
have been suffering from a nervous aIIIlel. ~
+be last twenty years and only a teW Gays TieO
noticed that il getting mucn worse, am
.Trsid 10 face il. Besides. nave oeSn laEias s Is
whole LOT of trouble in Wall Street latey' anu 50
determined to end it all - ID sr,a,ciaI
asked MIN If he meant he had hao hnSllCis.A hli
trn7,bIT and he nodded his head allf Fets
T'fen asked him who the woman was s ne re rT-
p c+ress named Sutherland. She had nothing 70
g. viii nv act and 1 don't want her name drSssSo
$50 +his affair She's a good little woman
brother-in-law Of Selgman, a Mr.. Nathan
sroxa for the family when inquiries were made at
E5ooseveft Hospital. He said that the family was
~ a loss 10 understand why the man snould rave
at,snnDfed suicide He asked II II We're IrCe
tLar Washington Seligman is estranged from ms
family. ..-os ., - -a,r,ad
.f,rt ne a man that keeps to hlnseit gOo0 OeSI
STha doctors say that there IS no doubt lhat
SAIicrnau will be able TO leave the nospitaaI N d
fe-v davs The wound proved 10 be along laS ISS
tones and was about five inches IN lenSIh- ~ -
far from a serious one. and the man Is su1lerinS
1rore from the shock than from the actc1A
rut Ten stitches were taken in IL
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