New-York tribune., 1912-02-13
WASHINGTON SELIGMlN
COMMITS SUICIDE
Shoots Himself After Taking
Over Phone in the Early
Morning Hours,
TRIED TO DIE TWICE BEFORE
Show Girl Cave Alarm When the
Bankers Son Cut His Throat
in Hotel in 1903-Had
Been a Broker.

A few minutes after he had called up
q young woman on the. telephone ami
before I O'Clock yesterday morning,
Washington Seligman, Il son Of James
Seligman. founder Of the banking house
OF J. & W. Seligman. committed suicide
by shooting himself. i was his third
attempt TO end his life.
Mr. Seligman VINO was ffty-eight
years old. killed himself I'm his suite at
the Hotel Gerard, which he had occupied
five years.
He was sitting on the edge Of his bed,
dressed save for his coat and vest
which were laid with care across the
back Of chair. when he fired the shot
and then fell back on the bed, the re-
volver clutched in his hand.
1t was not until noon that his body
was found. Frank Agnew, his secretary,
who lives at Cedarhurst, called him on
the telephone. When the operator coull
get no reply to repeated ringing Patrick
Dolan porter, burst open the door
Or. w. :. Varcoe. Of No 232 West 22d
L,
some years for ncurasthcnia, was called,
and he in turn summoned the Coroner.
Coroner WinteTbottom found two notes
on a desk In the sitting room. B"ih
were written with a heavy pencil on
hotel envelopes. They were identical
and unsigned and read:
am tired Of being sick ell my life.
seligman's father, who is eighty-eght
wears old and lives at the Hotel Neither
land, was called on the telephone. lie
was i'll and a servant received the mes
sage.
Family Gathers at Hotel.
Several members OF the Seligman fam
ily soon drove around TO the Gerard.
Amcng them were jefferson Seligman,
brother, and Mrs. jefferson Seligman;
De Witt j. Seligman, Mrs. Benjamin
iGugeenheira. a sister; Or. II. l.. +. Selig-
man, a brother-in-law Of Mrs. Jefferson
Seligman: Ir. Edward Dinkelspiel, a
son-in-Iaw of De witt Seligman, AMI
Charles c. Brown.
Mr. Brown who is a member OF the
firm of Post & FiaGg, said that SeliS-
man had done considerable trading
through his firm and that his losses in
the last year were heavy, though not
enough to impair his fortune.
SeIigman up to three years ago traded
IN the floor Of the New York Stock EX-
change. Then he sold out his seat.
JeGerson SeliGnIan said his brother
had bcer suffering from nervous indI-
cos,ion for more than twenty-five years,
and lately had been almost a physical
,yrock lie said nc saw him last week.
Ian. that he was In reasonably good
sririts De Witt Seligman saw him last
saturday in the Office of Post & FlagS,
and ne was then cheerful.
The fret time scligman used re-
,.oIver in an attempt 10 Kill himself was
g. 1887 At the san Marco Hotel, at st
augustine. Fia. lie slightly wounded
himself IN the arm. Al that time he
sid Il was an accident
s.cond Attempt at Suicide.
The second attempt was made on May
% 1eos a, the Hotel Rossmore, now
oocur,ed by Louis Martins restaurant.
uc had been dining that night with a
show girl named Anita sutherland at
! the Hotel Metropolis.
| After dinner they went to their ad-
Joining apartments in the Rossmore.
selem,n took off his coat and sashed
,i,,Sc,s IN the throat with razor. Miss
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