New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-05
EASTER SADDENED
BY FIVE SUICIDES
Deaths and Accidents in
Wake of Blizzard Make
Day a Tragic One.
CHARLES SCALLEN,
FLORIST, ENDS LIFE
Another, Despondent Over War,
Slabs Self Through Heart
Man Killed in L. I. Tube.

Misfortune stalked out OF Saturdays
blizzard and Easter Sunday ended with
tale of suicide, accidental deaths and
minor accidents that few days have
equalled. Against this record the
Tombs court set mark that can be
bcttered in only one way. and that an
absolutely clear docket One case was
a | Magistrate Ten Eyck had TO handle
In New York and vicinity there were
five suicides and two women attempted
TO die. one man succumbed to exposure,
one was drowned and another killed by
a train in the East River tubes Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. A man who
tried TO escape arrest by jumping from
"A window died from his injuries. A
body that had been in the water a
month was taken from the North River.
Charles Scallen, once a well known
florist, ended seven years of financial
troubles yesterday by inhalng gas in
his home at 300 West Fifty-trst Street.
After eight years on Broadway, ad-
Joining the Hotel Knickerbocker, his
business was wiped out by the panic OF
1907. Domestic trouble followed and
there was a divorce.
baS luDe Around Neck.
81 guess I'm all through" he said
Saturday night to his landlord, Michael
Byrne. "I'm all In. and there doesn't
seem TO be much use struggling any
longer"
Byrne found his tenant in bed yes
terday with gas tube in his mouth.
The suicide had wound II twice about
his neck, so that it would stay in posi-
ton. Nine pawn tickets were found.
Scallen was forty-five years old.
Despondent because of the war,
Charles Weber. of 1850 Minford Place,
The Bronx, jabbed a penknife into his
heart last night. He was found in the
bathroom by his son. with whom he
lived.
During Saturdays gale driven snow
the rope which Christian Reithman had
knotted around his neck before he
dropped from the limb Of a tree in
Forest Park, Queens. broke and the
body fell into a drift. 1t was found
yesterday by two boys.
Reithman had been living apart from
his wife, who occupies their old home
At l44 Sumpter Street. Brooklyn. She
told the police she put him out after
he had sQuandered $4,000 that belonged
to her and refused to work steadily.
He was sixty years old.
Jersey City reported two suicides.
Walter Boland, of 10 Monticello Ave
nue., got up early yesterday morning,
went to the cellar and hanged himself
to a beam. He had worried over non
employment Mrs. Laura Guizzer, of
BOO Palisade Avenue, drank oxalic acid
TO end the sufcrings Of long illness.
The body Of Charles Noitke, of 1917
Henderson Street, Jersey City, was
found in the VI, iris Canal basin. 1t is
thought that he was accidentally
drowned. From the North River off
Pc ~ Street a floating body was picked
up. II was that of a man about forty
five years old. five feet ten inches in
Insight and weighing about 175 pounds.
The hair and mustache were brown.
Letter Signed Kate Burns"
Exposure killed tho man whose body
was found in the cellar of a tenement
house at 1877 Second Avenue. A letter
found in a pocket was addressed to
George Bodcn, Dear husband" and
was signed Kate Burns, Ward c, City
Hospital" There We no address on
the envelope.
Michael Leblock, OF 243 West Tween
ty-ninth Street, a track walker en-
ployed by the Pennsylvania, was in
stantly killed in an East River tube.
As a train bound for Manhattan APP
preached he tried to reach one of the
safety inches. He was too late, and
the trucks OF the first car swept him
along the track.
Salvatore Licausi, Of 202 East Nine
ty-seventh Street died in Bellevue,
whore he had been since Thursday
morning, when detective went to his
home to arrest him on charge OF
felonious assault. lie jumped from
q window on the second floor
Only the quick action Of her hus-
band saved Mrs. Ida BackoG when
she tried TO drink lysol in their home,
at sol East l62d Street, The Bronx.
Miss Frances Lewis, who gave inc
police a false address. is in the Har-
lem Hospital. having drunk iodine las.
night at Seventh Avenue and 18th
Street.
In the Eastern District Hospital.
Brooklyn. is a man who was picked dp
unconscious In Grand Street, near
Union Avenue. He was apparently the
victim Of knockout drops, and had not
been revived late last night.
Eugene y. Benedict. of S48 Madison
Street. was badly hurt By a Ralph
Avenue car at Broadway, Williams
burg.
At Hubbel Street. Mount Kisco. one
Of the worst grade crossings in West
chester County, an Italian barely es-
capped with his life yesterday. His
horse was killed The driver. Petro
Echo, was thrown about fifty feet.
Magistrate Ten Eyck's one case was
that of Oreste De Caro-. Of 1 Roosevelt
Street Mrs. Marie Bruno, Of the same
address, said he had forced his a.ten-
lions on her She'll have no trouble