Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-07-06
|A|TH CUR|ST IS
| SLAYER OF SELF.
Tres Two Bullets Into Head at
His Jersey City
Home. y

b 8JERSEY CITY, July 6.-John blsey'
BIZ fifty years a successful wholesale
Merchant in the Washington Market
hf whose inlpuisive religious demon
1ratfons during the past Ten years
lave attracted wide attention, died
3st night in the City Hospital d
Gicide. He was 73 years old
&Although he was alone when nc
red two bullets into his head yes
<rday his daughter-in-law heard
he shots and for half an hour trled
B save his life She was waiting FOR
he coming of the family physician
3r. w. J. Parker, who had missed the
irst message. The family physician
Il once summoned the police, Wno
Allied the hospital ambulance.
fAlthough Elsey for years main
lined a magnificent home on Duncan
fvenue near the Boulevard, IN the
Bergen section, he was forced TO dis-
zDse of the property few months
Igo On this account he had moved
8 a two story apartment house at
Is levitt avenue one Il a row that
fe owned.
Business reverses. it Is said, nave
ollowed him recently. He was re-
.auted to have fortune of $25o,oVo'
frcumulat ted in the Washington Mar
ftet wholesale fish store. Poor invest
Tnef1ts and loans upon unstable secur-
Tfies are said to have made serious
znroads upon his capital.
q a few DAYS ago he asked his
=7aughter-in-ia who has lived with
him since the death of her husoand,
'1o take him to the family burial plot
=4t the Cypress Hills Cemetery. WINE
<here he insisted upon a death talk
IN all of its grewsome detail he re-
rited the plans that he had drawn
sor his interment and funeral In the
want that she survived him. He told
1er that he had arranged all of MS
temporal affairs and had revised
ais will To her pleadings to talk OF
the things of life he turned dear
ear. Then he insisted that they re-
Iurn home so that she could read TO
him from a number of religious vol
1rnes that he enjoyed.
This sort of conduct continued Tor
Ieveral days. Yesterday morning Mr.
flsey asked the young woman TO
some to his room Nand read to him
rom a favorite volume, THE Pre-
railing Prayer" For half an hour
1e listened to her, and then, laying
hand upon her arm, said;
NcLizzie, you go lie down and rest
low, for [ am going to sleep"
Little thinking that he meant ms
3naI sleep she obeyed. As she en-
cred her room she saw him toddle
oward the bathroom. minute
ater she heard the revolver shot and
,efore she could reach his side an
ther shot was fired. She saw that
Ie was bleeding from two wounds
ear the ear.
Some Years ago, following the death
{ child, he attracted attention by
uilding the Elsey Memorial Chapel.
/, Jewett avenue. in memory of the
hid. After a while he abandoned
he mission he had started there and
urned the property over to the Sal !
alton ARMY. Less than a year
lapsed. however, before he became
inverted to the faith cure religion
nd ousting the army gave the build
lg over to Mrs. Earl, who preached
ae faith cure there for a year. When |
e felt the spirit move the old man
,ouid preach in the mission about his |
Inversion. Those "movings" come |
nannounced-
Later he returned the building to
1e use of the Salvation Army, which |
ow occupies it.