New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-11
SCARED INTO SUICIDE
HARMED By II FIREMAN.
Wooer of T5co Women Shoots SeF
-Wife and a Lieutenant Near.

49,, nr,.hoels a bookkeeper thirty-seven
Years old shot himself in the head al MS hOiiio
On Tenth-ave yesterday in the presence OF M
wang wife and OF fireman in tuh uniloiN
70 5Iea later at the Roosevelt Hospital without
making any explanation of his act HIS wiie
s,o--z indicated that he had been frightened INTO
suicide by the fireman
The Michaels couple lived on the top hoOF %
- 600 renth-sye. Michaels the book
keeper Of the American Mineral water Macili"'
,,o,orapv in Forty-third-st. near Second-aVe'
Ta+~,Irnan Bowling, OF the West Forty-sev-
-, citation. was standing near the Tenth
- torse when he saw man in the UNIFORM
. ero,,an come out Of the house and bechon
- h,,, This man. Bowling later reported was
lieutenant Albert Reid. Of Engine company
a.. ts1,oyr has Just shot himself up stairs
p,td Is alleged 10 have told Downing
mid Won do anything" Bowling asked hinn'
eyes. I sent in an emergency call
.rvrbat are YOU doing here?' Downing asked
Reid. >.
81 was here On some business" Reid is SAID 10
have replied.
,,u,,,,s ran upstairs. and Reid walked away.
,ev, moments afterward ambulance from
the Roosevelt Hospital arrived. Downing re-
norted TO Captain Hussey at the west rory
seventh-st station that he found Mrs. Mlchaels
nv fbe bedside OF her husband. AFTER Michaeis
had been removed. Bowling reported MIS- MI
baels told him that Michaels purchased re-
,-oI,.a- -, Friday night with her knowledge.
Michaeis told her. she said. that he knew some
+ting was going TO happen to him yesterday,
and he wanted 10 be prepared.
.eNsv husband was lying in bed she ssid'
.when there was rap az the door. Opening It,
Lieutenant Reid walked in, in full uniform.
is he mp he asked me. Yes I replied, as l
+boreht ne meant my husband Then the fire.
10, turned TO nv husband and said TO him.
haven't you done it YETI and my husband an
swered No I didn't know what they were
,.,k,nx about. and then Reid said to my hus-
hand. We'll Il you don't, will The fireman
started 10 walk back TO a table in the kitchen.
when shot was fired and my husband had shot
himself"
Mrs Michaes told Bowling that she did not
know Reid before yesterday. She said her hus-
band had confessed to her some time ago that
he had been attentive TO a young woman en-
ployed in the place in which he was working.
This young woman was related by marriage to
Reid
At wish he had taken me along with him." the
wife moaned. Il forgive him for everything he
did"
Albert Reid who is assistant foreman OF En-
CINE No 80 at No. 223 East Northumberland
nineteenth-st., when seen last night denied alb
solutely that he had at any time threatened to
Kill Michaels or had advised him 10 commit sui
eide. Reid said that yesterday morning he had
gone TO Michaels home. and warned him TO
stop sending letters 10 his sister-in-law and
annoying her in any other way, saying that il
he did not do so, he, Reid, would find some way
TO make" him STOP After the shooting. Reid
said, he ran to the street and called police
man and an ambulance. and that he afterward
waited and gave every opportunity for his
rest II any one had cared 10 make IL.
Reid said that the trouble between his sister
and Michaels was OF long standing, that the
latter had been warned several times by the
girl that he must stop annoying her