The sun., 1904-08-25
MISSING MERCHANT A SUICIDE?
CARL l.. ROSES NAME on PAPERS
INSTEAMBOATSEMPTY ROOM.
Man Answering His Description Found
Drowned and Buried-Rose's Hands
CIamOrlng Meantime for Their wages
--Dankruptcy Petition Against Him.

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Drowned and Buried-Rose's Hands
CIamOrlng Meantime for Their wages
-Dankruptcy Petition Against Him.
letter from the marine department
Of the New York. New Haven and Hartford
Railroad received at Police Headquarters
yesterday disclosed the fact that Carl l..
Rose. manufacturer OF skirts and cloaks
at East Fourteen tn street, who has been
inlssing for the last ten weeks, and against
whom creditors petition In bankruptcy
was filed on Tuesday. may have jumped
from the steamboat Richard Peck on her
way from New Haven to this city on tho
night Of Aug. is.
A man, whom the New Haven line regis
tered on It's books as Mr.. Runyon. engaged
stateroom SO on the Peck for that trip.
He occupied the stateroom, but when tho
boat reached New Haven in the morning
the steward found the room empty and
locked, with the key on the inside.
The occupant could, Of course, have got
out through the window. He had left
some articles Of clothing, small bottle Of
oarbolio acid about three-quarters full.
railroad tickets from Stratford to New
York, New York to Paterson, Newark to
New York and Providence to New York
and a telegraph blank addressed to Carl L.
Rose. New Tontine Hotel. New Haven"
Rose frequently stayed at this hotel and
was there on Aug. H. At the hotel he
received telegram signed Arthur" which
said, After looking into affairs will decide"
and making an appointment to meet Rose
at a Fourteenth street dry goods store.
Roses factory occupies the second floor
nc Eaaf Fn,,rf oanth etroot Etftoov MAN
and women are employed there. They
worked all last week in the absence Of the
proprietor, and made up all the advance
stayed around the building, waiting for
their pay. The other tenants complained
to the police and the workmen were driven
away. Every day this week the employees
have haunted the factory in the hope that
their arrears OF pay. 1t was said At the
building yesterday afternoon that Rose
owed q months rent for the loft occupied
by his factory
Rose lived at ITO West Seventy y-eishth
street and has a wife and three children.
The foreman OF the factory heard that
Mrs. Rose was in Atlantic City and the
children somewhere in Maine. He tee-
phoned to Atlantic City and found that
Mrs. Rose had left the hotel several days
before. The police think that Runyon and
Rose are the same person and that he
jumped overheard or desired to leave the
impression that he had done so.
NEW HAVEN. Aug. A.-Detectives who
have been investigating the disappearance
o. the occupant Of stateroom So on the
Richard Peck on the night trip from this
city on Aug. ls believe that he was Carl
L. Rose. skirt manufacturer. Only fve
cents in money was found in the room.
Last Sunday morning the body OF man
80 years old who wore a mustache and goatee
was picked up In the harbor about Ave miles
oa this city. There were no marks Of iden-
tifcation on 1t and on Monday II was buried
dry goods merchant Of this city who had
done business with Mr. Rose for. several
Eound In the harbor tallies with that of Rose.