New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-11
Boston Man Kills Himself as
Wife and Brother Seek
Him in New York
Hotels.
FRESH FROM SANAT0RlUM
Was Representative for Gorham
& Co.-Slipped Away from
Muldoon's Farm and
Went to Grand Cen.
trail Platform.

Herbert A. sawyer, Boston representa-
tive Of Gorham G. Co., silversmiths. at
Fifth avenue and 35th street, committed
suicide during the rush hour in the sub
way last night by hurting himself in
front Of local subway train as Il was
pulling into the Grand Central Station,
He was killed instantly. The police
learned that Sawyer had been taking
treatment for his nerves at Muldoons
sanatorium, in White Plains, and had
left there only a few hours before he
killed himself.
A dispatch from Boston says that Saw
yer had recently completed a fine new
home in Newton Highlands, and the
worry over this caused his breakdown.
Samuel E. Lewis, of No. 437 Troy ave-
nue., Brooklyn, seems to have been the
only person who observed Sawyer closely
Just before he threw himself before the
train. He told the police he saw the
man enter the subway at 7:15 o'clock
and walk about for several minutes.
Sawyer did not appear unduly agitated
moment before he threw himself on
the tracks. On the contrary. he sur
veyed the approaching train calmly as
1t was drawing into the station.
Lewis had been standing close TO the
Cd ~ ha Co
the train came in, but withdrew pace
or two as the first car approached. He
expected TO see the man beside him do
the same thing, but instead Sawyer de-
liberately took a step forward, toward
the tracks, and when the first car was
only few yards distant threw himself
with great vigor off the platform.
His body landed squarely between the
rails, and before Patrick Mulvaney. the
motorman. could apply his emergency
brakes or shut off his power the body
disappeared under the train.
The couplings of the first car caught
Sawyer's body and drew it beneath the
wheels, ana the train was not brought
to stop until the body was LOGGED
under the first truck: Of the second car.
Platform Crowded at Time.
The platform was crowded at the time
of the accident, and many women wait
ing there for trains who heard the cries
of the men standing on the platform ran
from the place in terror AS soon as the
train had been brought TO a stop the
motOrman and Patrolman Koubsky, of
the West goth street police station,
jumped to the tracks and crept under
the body Of the car until they found
Sawyer. wedged between the two sets of
wheels of the forward trucks.
DIR. Victor. of the New York Hospital
who had been summoned, accompanied
the men, and a single glance at the
mangled form was sufficient to convince
him that life was already extinct II
required the aid Of wrecking crew with
train Jack before the body could be
removed, traffic on the southbound line
being delayed in the mean while.
After the body had been removed TO
the West Both street station a search OF
the clothing produced several cards with
Sawyer's name. There was also a bank
book, several railroad tickets on New
England lines, a sum of money and
pieces of jewelry. There was also a coat
this was the means of Identifying the
man.
The police communicated with the no.
tel and were told that Herbert Sawyer
was not registered there, but that his
wife and his brother were guests there
The clerk also said that Herbert Sawyer
had visited the hotel during the fore.
noon, had checked his coat and left.
over the telephone man who said he
was Herbert Sawyer's trother, in reply
to inquiries as to whether he knew whero
Herbert Sawyer was, said, in an excited
tone:
No, he did not register here. He has
threatened to harm himself several times
has he done It this timer"
Wife Was Seeking Him.
When told that mis- brother had killed
himself by throwing himself In front OF
q subway train the man said Mrs. Her
bert Sawyer was at the hotel with him
and knew nothing Of the act Of her hus-
band. After saying that he would go at
once to the police station to identify the
body. the man hung up the telephone.
He did not appear at the police station.
however.
Later man who said he was w. F.
Grant, of No. 495 Eighth avenue, Brook
lyn, called at the station and positively
identified the body as that Of Herbert A
Sawyer, the Boston representative Of
Gorham's He said the dead man was
thirty-rhrec years old. and had lived al
No. 8 Floral street Newton Highlands.
Mass
Sawyer had been in the sanatorium for
the last two weeks Grant said, and had
left there suddenly yesterday not being
under restraint of sny kind. His wife
had been told of his departure, and came
on from Newton Highlands with Saw
yer's brother.
After visiting several hotels where
Herber. Sawyer was in the habit of reg
istering t;.ey went to the Grand Union.
not knowing that he had checked his
coat there earlier In the day.
sUFFRAGETTEs BARRED TO-DAY.
London, April 1o.-As a precaution
st..war NsL