The evening world., 1906-04-30
WELL MYSTERY,
THE POLICE SAY.
WAS SUICIDE
But Friends of Victim
Are Sure Schubert
Was Murdered.

II Aiber. schuber; was murdered and
thrown INTO an abandoned we'll near
Newtown. l.. /. where his body was
found yesterday. there IS little lkeli-
hood that tic perpetrators OF the crim1
Will ever be discovered But for cer-
tain circumstances there would be e}ery
reason 70 believe the dead man COM
mi'ted suicide.
Schuber: lived n, No. 337 Est Ninth
street with his wife and three grown
sons Two married daughters lived in
the neighborhood. About year ago
ono OF his sons died. and Schubert was
deeply affected lie neglected his plas-
tering business and became brooder
over all publications OF calamities and
unusual disasters
Suicide, Say Police.
las, Tuesday he left his home. after
saying that he was thinking OF going TO
san Francisco and beginning all over
again. Nothing further was heard OF
him until hts nody was found.
The police on the case think II one
OF suicide. they say the man took on
his coat come distance from the well.
plunged a Knife into both his wrists.
severing the arteries. stabbed himself in
the throat. severlng the jugular We u
and the windpipe, walked half hun
GREG feet and stumbled into .he well
IL seems hardly possible tha. he
should have wulked SO lar after inaict-
ing mortal injuries upon himself. but
there Is no doubt about where the stab
b!ng was done He WIS right-handed
but his right wrist was slashed. The old
well IS half liled up and the sides slope
,oWard the bottom Schuberts BODY
was in a sitting posture as though II
had slid down the slcpe or been pushed
down feet h-st. II he stumbled In 4.
would appear no should fall head nrst
Hts watch was missing but he had
about dolias in small change In his
pockets
Boys Found Body.
John ]. McMahon. OF No. Ifo East
Forty-frst street and Robert Saunders
OF No. i55 East Elghty-eighth street;
went over to Corona to play baseball
yesIesdAy In rambling about along
jackson avenue. some two hundred feet
from It's junction with Flushing road.
they climbed a ridge which overlooks
Flushing Bay. Exploring this aimlessly.
they found in the underbrush e man 5
nat and overcoat ana a blood-stained.
rusty pocket knife.
The ramblers rom Manhattan has
teaed % inform the poAee Two men
"eee sent from the Flushing Police sta
ton to investigate
Close by is q well. known tradition
ally In that section az 81. Romans. 1t
has been unused for at least a quarter
century. lis water many years ago
was famed Tor ncdiolnai gs1ll-oz
The policeman saw mans body at the
bottom. Y feet down. 1t was In sitting
posture.
Sod Covers Roodstains.
There Nas 10 blood on the gr9uni-on
the undergvowth surrounding the we'll
none between the well aud the spot
Wnels s ne coat, hat ano knife were
ne cash ~ The right Nrist instead oil
thr ictt. where - right nauaea man
would cut himself. WIS an argumen;
is am suicide. In pocket wsIe sct
erH business cards OF a Schubert
= psper-harser and decorator. No iis Ea,.
: o4rteehth street. and q knife or tool
sleh as Is USED by p>perhangers 10
SET sserSpe o.d paper from walls. also u Two,
The police ,ound large. newly ON,
SOD nity-nve feet from the we'll I.i,,
ing THIS. they found Il puddle OF clotted
blood Apparently The sod hnd hes-
plt there 70 cover the signs OF a crime
NIth!n a tew hundred feet Of the place
are hotel. a sanitartum, aud an ojJ
house cncc the home OF the fafnoI,s
Harry Hill All these bindings com.
mand a Wow OF the well and its sur.
roundngs. An ambulance surgeon from
Flushing after q superficial eNain!aa-
ton. said that Ne could not tell whether
the man bad been dead three or twenty
four hours. but that probably death had
occurred at some time within that
period.
When Schubert laft homo ne carried
"A silver watch. gift from MS children
on tho twenty-nfth anniversary OF Ills
wedding and wore gold rins