The midland journal., 1905-03-31
WAS IT SUICIDE PACT?
Two Shoot Themselves in the Hollenden
Hotel.
DEATH WAS INSTANT FOR EACH.
One Was New York Lawyer Who is Said to
Have Been Despondent for Sometime and
the Other Travelling Salesman for loie'
do Flrm-BuIIet In the Two Cases Was
Fired into the Same Spot.

Cleveland, O., (SpcciaD. = Henry L.
Woodward, an attorney of New York
.ity. and Charles A. Brouse, travelling
salesman for the National Supply Com
pany, of Toledo, O., committed suicide IN
their rooms at the Hollenden. The
coroncr's verdict in each case gives de-
spondency over domestic and business
troubles as the cause of the suicides.
Both men has used pistol and had sent
bullet into their heads in almost the
same spot, death in each case beng IN
stantaneous.
Coroner Siegclstein said that number
of letters had been found in Woodward $
possession, from his wife, which showed
that Woodward evidently had been sui
fering from dependency. The letters
were written from 1Io1 Amsterdam ave-
nue.. New York, and were signed Cora. "
Their contents were affectionatc in tone
and pleaded for Woodward's return
home and for reply to the letters. The
number of letters showed that there had
been two or three day.
Woodward was an attorney and had
been in partnership with Robert T. Cum
mings, of No. 81 Liberty street, New
York, the two men forming the law firm
OF Cummings & Woodward. The
partnership had been dissolved sometime
ago and Woodward became travelling
salesman for the Banks Law Publishing
Company, No. 81 Murray street, New
York.
A few weeks ago Woodward fell oft
street car in Ashtabula and spralned his
ankle. The injury required his spending
some days in Cleveland hospital. The
injury, combined with failure to meet
with anticipated business success, is be-
lieved to have been the cause OF his de-
spondency. Woodward, according to a
letter found in his possession, had also
formerly lived at Marietta, 0.
The body of Brouse was found an
i hour after the discovery of the body OF
Woodward. So far as is known, there
was no agreement between the two men
to end their lives, although it is SAID
that they had been seen together in the
lobby of the hotci Brouse's home was
at Wadsworth, o. He had formerly lived
at Akron, O.
New York, (SpcciaD. = Henry l..
Woodward, who committed suicide by
shooting in the the Hollenden Hotel, in
Cleveland, was formerly a lawyer in this
city, and had an office at 81 Liberty
street. He was brother-n-law of
Nevada N. Stranahan, collector of the
port.
Mr.. Stranahan said:
"The first news of Mr. Woodward's
suicide / received through the newspa-
pers, and it is a great surprise to me.
l cannot account for the suicide
"Mr Woodward was sufferer from
nervousness. He had been i'll for sew
eral years and had been in sanitarium
several times. Recently, he had been
working for Banks Brothers, law pub
fishers. Mrs. Woodward received a tele-
gram from Cleveland stating that her
husband was seriously i'll, and left I'M
mediately for the West, with an old
friend, Robert c. Cummings, who was
formerly Mr. Woodward's law partner" /"
Mr. Woodward was brother of JUS
tice John Woodward, of the New York
Supreme Court. Before coming to this
city he practiced law in Albany.