New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-17
SUICIDES BODY FOUND.
Family on Outing DISCOVER It
Wife Becomes Hysterical.

The body OF Frederick T Kuehn. who committed
suicide last Monday In Jamaica Bay was FOUND
floating in Broad Channel off the Jamaica Bay
Yacht Clubs pier. yesterday by Charles B. Easton.
OF No. 10 West Thirty-sixth-st-. Bayonne Until
the body had been identified by kuehns orother-in-
law. William A. Garrison of No % Boerum Place.
Brooklyn. II was supposed the man had been muir
dered.
Kuehn had tied his hands across his breast AFTER
bringing the ropes end over the right knee which
drawn against the chin On the top OF the
head long wound and IN the groin and right
thigh other wounds. Kuehn lived with his parents
and two sisters at No. 1.156 Fulton-st, Brooklyn
and employed by Manhattan millinery sup
ply concern.
He went to sheepshead Bay last Monday and
hired a rowboat from Martin Brothers. he tod
them he wanted heavy boat he wanted to
try his muscle. He insisted that a heavy anchor
be put In the boat. He carried with him When
he went out the usual nineteen or twenty pound
mushroom anchor which is carried in all the small
boats In Jamaica Bay. He did not return at night
and the next day the boat found adrift with
all of Kuehn's clothing in It, In one pocket
was found note addressed to Garrison II read
Goodby. dear Bill am tired Of living vim act f b1
assign no particular reason i0r aRe no attempt to
recover my body. have rowed miles out 10 sea
Console mother and the rest of them. l wish you
all the luck in the world Goodby. all my irleios'
Garrison said Kuehn had been In ill-health for
some time. Recently kuehn told him that ne
enough. Garrison offered to furnish the money
but Kuehn refused it. Kuehn's father is nearly
blind and IS unable to work. and Kuehn. who was
about thirty-fve years DID, was the bread win
of the family
Sunday night Kuehn visited the young woman
in Brooklyn whom he was engaged He re-
turned home early. and when he left home the
next morning ostensibly to so fishing. he seemed
20 be in fine spirits. AS far as can be learned, he
went directly Sheepshead Bay where he
drowned himself
II Kuehn did tie an anchor around his neck. 1t
mad slipped off before Easton found the body
When the body was found 1t floating up the
bay from the inlet the strong Hood tide ana
almost in the middle of the channel
Easton and his wife and three children had left
Canvas City on Rockaway Point, where they
spending the summer. for a days hshng
near Broad Channel. He was rowing up Broad
Channel. when he the body floating off the
pier of the Jamaica Bay Yacht Club. He passed
hshline around the wrists Of the body and started
70 tow it ashore: When near float belonging to
the Bay View Yacht Club the line parted and
anchor rope, with which he secured II to the float.
thus giving rise to the report that the body had
been weighted down with anchor. He reported
finding the body to the police of the Rockaway
station. Coroners Physician Schenck. after an ex.
animation OF the body. pronounced II case or
suicide.
Eastons wife became hysterical the finding
OF the body. and the children were also seriously
affected by the sight