Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
KILLS HIMSELF.
To GIVE FUNDS
TO HIS FAMILY
Carl WOltman, DespOndent After
Losing Business, Ends
Life With Gas.
"WORTH MORE DEAD"
HIS WORDS TO FRIEND
Came to Country Eleven Years
Ag0-Leayes Widow and
Five Children.

II am worth more to my family dead
than alive" were the words Carl Volt
man, 80 years old, of 151 Spruce street.
uttered to friend few days ago, and
today he carried out the intention he
had harbored for so long, and COM
mitted suicide at his home by inhaiing
gas.
Despondent over his money losses IN
business, driven to despair over the
prospect of again being forced to work
in the cheerless factory to provide
bread for his wife and little ones. and
knowing that the money coming to his
family at his death would bring imme-
diate relief to his loved ones, he went
to bed last night turned on the gas To
which he attached rubber tube, and
was found dead this morning by his
wife when she went to calf him.
Eleven years ago woltman was
driven from Roumania to this country
by the outbreaks against the Jews. He
came to this land of promise, OF which
he had heard such glowing accounts
with the brightest anticipations for
the future.
Being at that time young, only 81
full of good health and spirits and with
unbounded ambition, he soon obtained
employment in brush factory, where
he quickly became trusted employee
He married shortly after he came hero
and his ambition ever since has beer
to save up sufficient to start q little
place for himself.
Started as Restaurant.
| Although children came and II
was hard work, he, by dint of saving
| and struggling, saved enough to star
a little restaurant at the corner o.
| Spruce and Barclay streets, Here hil
countrymen used to scongregate to tall
over old times in the country the,
| had fied.
| But this did not pay, the panic o
1907 came and then the hafters' strike
which involved such a large number o
his countrymen. Wo1tman saw his lit
! tie capital dwindling. and dwindlini
until a few months ago he was unable
to pay his bills, was forced to give vi
for lack of rent and again faced tn,
hard, stern necessity of going to th'
cheerless factory which he had sc
| joyously said farewell to.
| The thought of this and providing
| for his family of wife and five children
ranging from 10 to years, brough
despair, and finally the black bacl
door of suicide, which promised es
cape for himself and relief for hi
| family. yawned, and Woltman, wh'
had been brooding for a long time
| took the leap to the unknown.
The news of his death came as dis
! tinct shock to all his friends, who al
ways knew him as a happy, sanguin,
fellow, who always made the best o
everything. A brother from Fall River
Mass, is here to take care Of the fu
neral arrangements.
| An aged couple, the father anG
mother Of the dead man, are in Fal
| River and it is hoped to keep the new.
of their sons tragic death from them
! He was a member of a number o.
benevolent and protective organiza
tions, and the insurance, it is thought
will keep the family comfortable unit
| they are taken care of by relatives.
DR.. Mckenzie was notified and hs
| issued a burial permit. The wife tool
charge of the body.