Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-27
SUICIDES ARE MANY
EPIDMIC OF SELF-DESTRUCTIo
RUNS RIOT.

BALTIMORE, June IA sensational sui
eide occurred at Curtis Bay Tuesday after
noon. when Pietro Taransky a Russian.
thirty-three yearsold. killed himself by
shooting a ball through his heart with a
pistol. He was buried in potter's field.
Taransky. who was employed by the
South Baltimore Steel Car and Foundry
Company. feared he was going to lose his
position. He lived on Cedar street. Curtis
Bay. and was well liked by all the other
occupants Of the home.
Just before pm. he remarked that
rather than worry so much he would end
his life. No one believed anything of it at
the time. until one of his friends saw him
going toward the woods back of the bay.
The friend Started after him, but when
Taransky saw he was being followed he
started to run as fast as he could. The
chase was kept up until the woods were
reached. and then before the man in pursuit
took many more steps Taransky was seen
to pull pistol from his pocket and place
the muzzle against his breast. One shot
ended his life. The man hurried to the
scene and tried to make his friend talk.
but he was too late. as death came within
few seconds after the fatal shot was fired.
Suicides Strange Words.
NEW YORK, June 2-The body of a
man. partly identified at Otto Handler was
found hanging to strap tied to hook
| in the ceiling of a room at No. 634 Sd ave-
nue. yesterday. A note written on a scrap
of paper. but with no visible sign of a
name or address, read
"AH things l leave behind I give over
as token of friendship to the one who
has photograph of me. God bless her"
On the other side Of the paper were several
words, including playground beneath
Brooklyn brldge." and others that were in
distinguishable. "A written sketch of an
auto trip up the Hudson was among the
effects.
Drummer Kills Himself.
YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio. June Y.-Freder-
ick r. Schenck, who until within a few days
ago was travelling representative Of a
patent medicine house Of Buffalo. COM
vein In his left wrist with razor. He was
about thirty-eight years old.
Virginian a Suicide.
LOUISVILLE KY, June 27.-J. D. Greg
DRY. ST., an insurance solicitor and formerly
eide yesterday by cutting his throat. He
was native of Virginia and was at one
time in business in Danville.
Suicide by Dynamite.
MONROE, Mich. June 27.-After his wife
had refused to come back and live with
him because of his drinking habits, George
Hummer. quarryman. walked to the barn
at the rear of his wifes house, lay down
on the floor and blew himself to pieces with
q stick of dynamite All that was left of
him after the explosion were his legs.
Child's Assailant q Suicide.
NEWARK, N. J.. June 27.-Raphael Sa-
varo who pleaded guilty TO a charge of as
saulting an eleven-year-old girl, killed him
self in Jail. He dived from a balcony on
the third floor to the lower floor, thirty
feet, and struck on his head. He died a
few minutes after he was picked up.
May Blame Mother-in-Law.
NEW YORK. June 27.-Finding that his
wife with their two children had gone to
the home Of his mother-in-law, Paul Vein
traub. salesman. thirty-fve years old, of
No. Y Gerry street. Williamsburg. COM
mitted suicide early yesterday morning by
hIhaling gas In the parlor of his home. He
had been Ill as we'll as one of his children
Before he killed himself he removed the
tips from three gas burners in the parIor
and plugged up every hole and crevice in
the room.
Suicide From Horros.
NEW YORK, June 27-Katie Scholer. n
handsome young woman of twenty-five died
In the Mount Sinai Hospital yesterday
half an hour after she had drunk carbolic
acid In Central Park. The girl was found
unconscious on a bench In the park by Pa
trolman O'Leary. long letter, written in
Russian and addressed to her mother, told
the story Of girl who. a victim of melan-
cholia, sought peace in death by her own
hand.
"Good-by, mother" read one portion of
the letter. II am sorry l have to do this,
but I must"
According to the parents. who live at No.
4S East 10TH street, Katie Scholer had been
respondent for some time. She came to
New York year ago, with her father and
mother, from Odessa, Russia. The priva-
lions they endured and the trouble they ex-
perienced in leaving Russia as refugees in
order to escape the massacres that were
threatened had made almost a physical
wreck of the girl. She worried continually,
her parents say. and often recalled the
horrors of her frightful experiences in COM
ing to America.