New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-16
M MORE OUTSIDE BOOTHS SAY He MEANT TO KILL
| etter Carrier Arrested with His
Two Sons as Migrants.
MADE JANITOR SUSPICIOUS
Plan to End Lives of Children,
Man Blamed for Trouble and
Self Told in Letter.

Robert H. Mack, a letter carrier con
nected with the Times Square branch OF
the pcstofTice was arrested, with MS
two chiIdren-George six. and James. four
years of age-snd locked up in the Nes'
9th street station last night. charged with
vaErancy and carrying concealed weapons
Mack. according TO the janitreSs or the
tenement house at No. So Tenth avenue
was dispossessed on Friday He returned
TO the place last evening. she says ana
asked that he and the two boys be allowed
10 go TO their old rooms for snort Tune
The woman saw what she thought were
the outlines of a revolver in Macks MP
pocket. and called PatroIrnan Thon. Of the
West 9th street station. Thon took the
gun from Mack, he says. and they went 70
the station house.
The letter carrier told the police. they
saw that he and the boys have been sleep
ing in Railways since they were eVlcteu-
In note which was found in one OF his
pockets, the police say. he wrote that ne
had decided 10 kill himself. his children
and man who had caused MIN the
trouble. In the letter also he accuses MS
wife of deserving him
The two BOYS in the station house were
unwilling TO leave their father when an
agent of the Children's Society arrived 70
take them. They were finally persuaded
70 90 quietly. with the promise that they
would see pop soon again
The police say the letter they ootailisI
from Mack reads as follows:
Ny wife has deserted me for dirty sur,
who is the supposed proprietor OF Jun
saloon MANY people have told me tldt
they used to see them together, and nave
known her to go TO d supposed lovers IhSeC
ing at 30 and return at 200 next MOI iIII-S-
/ know that the meeting closed at u Q cloSh'
and that can be verified by the Rev Dr.
Murphv at No. $50 West 10th street =,
is the cause of all my trouble. My VIE Is
b hem aItbo,1sb he had a wife and family of
his own | intend putting my two chlIdrel
away and putting myself away IN Ine nus
pital. and then putting that dIt! CIL
away also, if I can get q chance to do so
The letter bore yesterdays date. 1t con-
tanned postscript which read as folIo"s'
Kindly tell Superintendent E V Smith,
OF the Times Square station, 10 mana q
small sum coming to Ihe. $50 or so, 20
James L AyIesbury, of No. Railroad ave
nuc. Corona, Long Island Ny PrlyaIe
papers are all in the safe of john b NC
f}ouoeh No SIS Tenth avenue All otner
assurances in effect are 10 be paid to James
l.. AvIesbury. TO do with as he sees nj, WIN
to nv wife Minetta Mercedes Mack. VINO
has proven herself TO her children anu
to ne. s,,
II seems better to me that the children
should depart from this world OF tears ana
sorrow rather than live their lives with the
stigma OF degradation and shame attached
"a Thern / love them and for that reason
only wish them to go with me. l am not
insane and l know full well every step l
take in my action II Is better TO Send tne
children TO that bourne from which no tray
eIIer returns where their tears shall ever pc
washed away from their ewes and mine
stand disgraced and death is far more
r,referab BILE than life Of shame and degra-
dalton where 1 cannot raise my head
Several loose cartridges were found in a
pocket of the postman's coat At the sta
ton he told a policeman that he had stored
his furniture after the dispossess proceed
ings