New-York tribune., 1905-02-26
IMPALED ON IRON FENCE.
WE4LTHY NAN II SUICIDE.
Jumped from Sirth Story Windosc,
His Head Striking a Picket.

Samuel siegbert forty years old, member OF
the firm OF Louis Siegbert & Brother, dealers IN
cotton goods, at No - Greene-st.. committed
suicide soon. after s o'clock yesterday morning
by jumping from window of his apartments
on the sixth floor OF the Ardsley Court apart
unent house at No. $50 Central Park West In
falling his body caught iron picket fence
next TO the building. and the sharp spike tore
through his skull and killed him instantly. He
had been suffering from melancholy for several
months. the cause OF which is unexplained. His
wife and eighteen-year-old daughter, with whom
he lived are Frustrated by his suicide.
Mr.. siegbert arose yesterday morning at his
usual hour, and complained of feeling poorly.
After breakfast with his wife and daughter. he
retired to small room in the rear OF the apart
nlent, facing a vacant lot to the south Of
the apartment house which is at the southwest
corner Of 92d-st This room he used den"
and his wife did not think IL strange that he
should do that at the time. From what can
he surmised. he had made up his mind to take
the fatal leap. and hesitated not moment when
he entered the room, but opened the window and
jumped through
On the second floor OF the apartment house. in
apartment facing toward 91st-st.. trained
nurse. in care of d patient, saw Siegbert's body
hurting downward. She thought some work
man employed on the upper stories had fallen,
and called up the telephone operator at the
central switchboard IN the office and told her
The operator Immediately called up the
various apartments on the upper floors of the
house, and asked IL any workman had fallen.
No one could give her any information, and
even when she called the Segbert apartment
Mrs. Segbert answered:
mo; has fallen from this floor so far
/ know"
You are sure?" asked he operator.
and ask Mr.. Siegbert''
She went TO her husbands den" knocked at
the door, got response, and then trying the
door, found IT locked Becoming alarmed, she
called a porter and the door was forced. Her
husband not within and the window
open. She ran TO the window, looked down, and
saw her husbands body irnpsled on the iron
spikes below. Then she became hystericaI.
Mr.. Corcoran. the manager OF the building.
sent employees out TO the fence. and found that
the body was that Of Mr.. Siegbert, ard that his
injuries had been terrible that death must
have been instantaneous. The body hung by
the skull. which ripped open where it struck
the spikes Of the fence.
Mrs. Siegbert tainted when she was assured
that the body on the fence was that OF her hus
band. and she and her daughter under
the care of a physician.
The fatality was first reported to the police
of the West 1oOth-st. station accident,
Patrolman Sullivan, whose beat includes the
L, Il
report 10 Sergeant DeVery from hearsay. De-
tective McManus later investigated the case.
and from his talk with Manager Corcoran and
with Mrs. and Miss Siegbert became convinced
that Siegbert committed suicide.
What was the cause OF his desire to end his
life the detective did not learn. II is known
that his business was in prosperous condition
and that his domestic relations everything
TO be desired. His apartment was one of the
most elaborate in the apartment house. 1t con-
sisted of fourteen rooms of the best floors
OF the house. and furnished III a costly
manner throughout.
Patrolman Sullivan called DR.. Breed from the
j. Hood Wright Hospital but the surgeon found
nothing to do. and wrote Dead arrival in
his record of the case. DR.. W. Jay Dounce who
lives in the Ardsley Court. also called, and
reported the as a suicide to the Coroner's
Office. He said that death due a COM
pound fracture of the skull fracture of the
left leg and other injuries.
member Of the family. who did not wish
his name used, stated that Mr.. Siegbert was a
sufferer all last summer and this winter with a
severe attack of lumbago. He added that Mr.
Siegbert became despondent and melancholy,
and the general belief that he decided not
20 suffer longer and then ended his life