Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-01
Lyman Nichols, Of Nut
ley, Stays Self
with Bullet.
SECRETARY OF STERLING
BRONZE CO.. NEW YORK
No Motive for Act, Says Son.
Business Prosperous, Family
Life Happy.

Lyman Nichols. 46 years old, pros
porous New York business man, warden
and treasurer of Grace Episcopal
Church, of Nutley. was found dead in
the street In Nutley early today. a
bullet hole under his right eye, and q
small revolver IN his right hand
Relatives of The dead man .iiscIaim
any knowledge Of a motive he may
have had for suicide. His son declared
today that he had 70 business troubles
and. SO far as rhe r.embers Of his
family knew. no cause for very. The
mystery surrounding the tragedy Is
deepened by the fact that the body
was found in part of the town whore
Mr. Nichols was never known to CO.
The Nichols home. where the family
have lived since thcy came from New
York fifteen years ago. is on Nutley
from the station of the Newark
branch of the Erie railroad, which Mr..
Nichols always used In going to and
from New York. II Is Thought possi-
BILE. however that he may have missed
the last train from New York and
come up from Newark in a trolley car.
Found BY Driver.
Stanley Elkins, a driver of bakers
wagon, found Nichols's body in vree-
land avenue, near Passaic avenue,
about $50 o'clock this morning He
notified police headquarters and DR..
Mckenzie was in turn told of the dis
covery. The county physician declared
that Nichols had died by his own hand
and ordered tiseabody removed to CaId-
wells undertaking establishment In
Belleville.
A short time later Mrs. Nichols was
told of the tragic death of her hus-
band. She was all but Frustrated by
the shock. The eldest sor. Yelling
declared that no reason why his father
should take his life was known There
Is another son, Lyman, aged IA yeaf1
Mr. Nichols was the secretary of the
Sterling Bronze Company, of New York
His place of business was recently
moved from East Twenty-seventh
street to East Fortieth street He was
known to his neighbors as an amiable
man and his home life was said to be
very pleasant.
Mr. Nichols was a son Of the late
John A Nichols. who was a high
official in one of the leading New York
insurance companies. He married
Elizabeth yelling. of Trenton, where
he was for many years an officer of the
Monument Pottery Company. He after
ward went to New York as president of
the Henry Huber Company.
Mr. Nichols was an intimate friend
of John M. Carrere. the architect, who
died recently in New York after hay-
ing been injured In a taxicab, and his
death deeply affected Mr.. Nichols.
Charles F. Kinsman, general man
ager of the Sterling Bronze Company.
could throw no light on the mysteri-
GUS cause of the suicide According
to the manager Nichols had left the
office about o'clock last night, pre-
sumably to take the Erie train to Nut
ley. Nothing in business of the firm,
the manager insisted, could have wor-
ried Mr.. Nichols In the slightest, and
since he had always shown himself to
be kindly and generous, never morose,
Mr. Kinsman was entirely at loss to
account for the suicide.
The neighborhood where the body
was found is dark and little traversed
in the evening. The residence of j. H.
Hull, the town attorney, was almost
directly opposite the place where the
suicide occurred.
A New York newspaper, of a late
edition, and a circular advertising a
school, were found nearby. while i'm
mediately beside the body was a pair
of eyeglasses and an open umbrella
The right lense of the glasses was
shattered. Mr.. Nicholss clothing was
dry.
How he came to be at that particular
place in Vreeland avenue is a mystery.
unless for some unknown reason, or
because Of missing an Erie train, he
had come to Newark and taken the
Paterson car out to Vreeland avenue