The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-06-19
SOUGHT DEATH THREE WAY,
~ BLEEDING, tHOkI\, -,
DROW MING. AND ron NJ ir
Peter IIraUhn. Retired Heal Estate w..
Lashcd Himself Beneath thr pl,r ",
south Beach. staten island. Then, y.
Ills Wrists, Then thohcu Him.,

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The body of an elderly man who.
insured himself against crn'uu.a
by providing three ways for dc.th.o.,.
him was found under the Happyla,d -,
at South Beach. Staten Island or.
yesterday morning. He had c,u ,v
arteries. attempted to strauclo brsou
a nd had lashed himself to d ,,lo -.
ould be under water when IN. ,".
crept in.
Bv n card which was in the Waterfront.
pocket Of the suicides coat ho was ,So,
tilted as Peter Brauhn of 80. Busbait.
avenue. Brooklyn Charles Iuch. -.
in law. visited the morgue al Sia,lor,
and verified the identification later in IN.
day. Mr.. Brauhn was ~ years old and
retired real estate broker of comfo.,
able means,
Thomas Gillis of Stapleton was the On.
who discovered Rrauhns body lie vsr,
TO Happvland fcfore sunrise to dig clam.
Happening to walk under the long ma.
above the low water mark Gills esn,s.
the figure of man Ashed 10 sawed a,
pile in the shadows under the pier.
The body was in sitting pos,;o,
held in place by the strand. of a Is foo,
clothes line that passed about his char
a dozen times and was looped abou, N.
pile behind. One end of the rome wa.
tightly bound about the dead man, ls.
wrist; the other knot was made under HI,
right arm. Tho rope was drawn so tightly
that the body could not be moved an inc,
until the loops were loosened
About the throat a blue cotton handler.
chief had been noosed so tightly that ,hs
skin was cut beneath the chin. The hand.
kerchief was tied so that slow strancu.
lation would have been assured.
Both wrists were cut To the bone ars
the arteries were severed The wats,
that had come up aDout the body and 70.
treated some time after midnight had
washed away all traces of blood Thsra
was a closed razor in a waistcoat pocke
This also was spotlese.
The tide was low at South Beach A
$40 O'Clock on Saturday night. Tha
pile about which the binding rope had
been lasheG il some distance above hs
low water line on the beach High wssr
mark was reached AT 20 O'Clock o.
Saturday night. the water heing abou,
twenty feet deep al that time over ,ts
spot where the suicides body was d.,
covered
When the police of Stapleton invest
gated the circumstances of BRAUN.
unusual attempt al destruction thsy
doduced the order of tho mans Assault.
upon himself Since his left hand w
bound tightly to the pile and only \,
| right was free they believed that \.
must have done the bin,,'ng first. lie
knot in the handkerchief wa- Of the ,lr.
moose variety. ii could ho tigh'cncd v.
one hand.
After having trusssd hirsc'f " 70 b.
drowned 10y the rising wsters BrSgi
must have severed tho arteries o.
/ left hand with the raaor. then na.s
tight the knot about his neck win 3.
right hand and holding the raHor in d.
bound left hand drawn the right W..
across the blade The supreme ac, Q.
the mans deliberate prersretion- io'
death VA, the folding up of the "a.
once used end reri1ciny i in h,- yls
coat pocket.
Until Coronars Physician George No.t
makes an autopsy to-day II cannot +.
known whether BrsYhn mot DE Il T.
stranGulation. asrhyNation OF l,ss d
blood
At Brauhn's home in Brooklyn no'hir
Of the circumstances enteCedent q
his death could be learned Neichbo-
said that he he'd been sick recent
and very much depressed in spirits H
had not been seen on tho street for th-s
DAYS prior to Saturday they added Y
lived with his only daughter and h
husband and he had retired from bus
ness many years ago.