The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-19
SUICIDE ENDS A MAN HUNT
AND BERTILLON SYSTEM BESTS
THE ROGUES GALLERY.

OOnsuinpuNe VINO heIu tp WI. vernon
JeweIIer IL Able to Press Trigger %
an Automatic Pistol Long Enough Ia
s9pd Three Bullets Clean Through Him.
A tall, thin young man with a very pallid
complexion ran north on Elizabeth street
yesterday afternoon. coughing violently as
he fed. In his left hand was a revolver
and people ray him a wide berth. His
cough seemed to increase with his e~xertion
and as he turned east on Blocker street
his pace grew slower. A policeman and
two men in plain clothes, one OF whom
had fired two shots at the fleeing man.
closed in on him At the northeast corner
Of the Bowery and Second street the fugitive
seemed to be exhausted. He leaned against
an area railing a few doors east OF the Bow
cry on Second street and~SAng the revolver
slowly in a half circle for a moment to
hold his pursuers back. Then he turned
the revolver toward his breast and shot
himself through the heart.
Quite by accident Sam Reyman, Jr., a
jeweller Of 90 Mount Vernon avenue, Mount
Vernon, had CHANGED upon the fugitive at
the corner OF Houston and Elizabeth streets
and had recognized him az a burglar who
had come into Reymanis jewelry shop in
Mount Vernon the night before and had
robbed the place while the jeweller looked
into the muzzle of the Colt automatic re-
volver with which the burglar committed
suicide yesterday on Second street. Rey-
man was closing his store in Mount Vernon
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toned in X SUN yesterday, when the
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~. a.. - - ~aachad Tor his revolver
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p".ru.on Atrau and Policeman Patrick
pI;rh uho had hssn s,anding across the
-, ,ooL mr. the chase
I,waII AL ,wo shots toward the ground
.or,v in ,hs chase Tbs f~I0itive made no
so,Dd axcant hi parsistant couUh. and
aIthongb he swung his revolver as he ran
ha - nonsa ~ !, Al Rleecker street
no ,,rnad aast toward the Bowerv and
ran dsnoaronslv close 10 a so~uthbound
Third avanue trolley car IA he crossed
the Rowarv dia gonalIv and turned north.
In n rsw saconds there was a mob nj his
hasIs
A. no raachad SacoDd street the pur-
s,ars were closing ON him. but when he
rocad around the hunters stopped abruptly
in rom ~ his 0un. The policeman and the
datac,iva had Climbed mn the aid of some
tome stems. Mt tina foot of which the man
tod in order 70 Urasn him from behind
,yhan he turnadt the revolver unon his breast.
The automatic will continue. az long as the
ginger is pressed to the trigger. to dis
charge it's shots until empty, Three steel
bullets had zone clean through him before
his grin ON the trigger loosened. Then he
Aid 10 the pavement in n limp heap, his
chin droppine on his wounded breast until