The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-31
BROKER IN TANGLE
ENDS LIFE WITH GAS
r. II. Reid Of Consolidated
Commits Suicide After
Trades Are Stopped.
WIFE ALARMED BY NOTE
Lost Heavily in War Stocks.
Fridays Advance Wip-
ing Him Ont.

. A few hours after the announcement
that>th Consolidated Stock Exchange
had closed the> trades OF Richard II.
Reid, the body OF the broker was found
In his city home at 204 Keap street.
Williamsburg. brooklyn. He had CON-
mitted suicide by inhsllng gas.
The body was found after search
had been made for Mr.. Reed. His wife,
while worrying because he did not re-
turn TO their country place at Port
Washington on Friday night, had found
brief note In his desk In the library.
saying that he intended to commit sui
eide.
The broker did not come to the city
on Friday morning. lie had paced up
and down his library all day. saying
, that he had lost all he possessed. Late
IN the afternoon. he told his wife that
he thought he was losing his mind. He
decided TO 70 at once and consult the
family physician, Dr Alfred Smylie Of
s95 Park place, Brooklyn. His wife
pleaded with him TO walt until Satur-
day morning. but he left hurriedly after
bidding his family good-by. lie walked
t. the station. saying that he did no.
wish to call his automobile. He promised
to return that night. but said he might
be late.
Where he went on Friday night could
not be learned. When Mrs. Reid found
the not" she at once telephoned to friends
in brooklyn She learned that her hus-
band had not seen Dr. Smylie. Thomas
4. Baffa. "A real estate operator OF 211
Havemeyer street. a fried of the family.
had not seen Mr.. Reid
with growing alarm Mrs. Reid tele-
phoned to the police and asked that
search be made for Mr.. Reid at the resi-
dence at 204 Keap street She told the
police of the note she had found and Of
her fear that her husband had taken his
life.
Capt Buchanan Of the Clymer street
station ordered patrolman Cosgrove TO
force his way into the house. Just as
Cosgrove was leaving the station Mr.
Bafra arrived. lie went with the police
man When the front door was opened
gas almost overcame the two men. They
finally found the body in the pantry.
Mr. Reid had attached rubber tube
to "A gas jet, Then he had made pillow
Of his overcoat and stretched himself
upon table. To make sure Of his
purpose he fixed the tube In his mouth
and then pulled a pillow case over his
head.
ttiNDWTu ~. ft.iN bfCdnt" tnefnnc1
Of the Consolidated Exchange In 1900.
His business. II IL said WAS mostly In
mining stock He WAS - years old. He
had -four children. Richard. "a years,
who is in the West working In one of
the mines In which his father was in
terestcd; Louise. II; Lewis. -. and
Elenore, 10.
Mr. l,eid's office was at SO broadway
II was announced yesterday that the
Consolidated Exchange had closed his
trades under the rule because he had
failed to send in his Clearing House
sheet at the proper time. No explana-
tion OF the brokers' troubles was made.
II Is known that Reid lost heavily in
war stocks on short market. ON
Thursday, when war stocks broke, he
had hope of escaping disaster. but on
Friday, when the stocks advanced. he
Was wiped out lie complained that
his customers We're unable to meet his
call for additional margins.
VI T., de Agucro, president OF the Con-
solidnted. said he did not know the ex-
tent OF Reid's losses, but he believed
the broker had lost all
Mr. Reid was connected with the First
National Bank up To the time he became
IA member of the Consolidated Exchange
He had served on the board of gov
ernors and on the committees OF MEM
bership and ways and means.