The New York herald., 1921-11-02
Architect Is Found Dying at a
Desk in Public Writing
Room of the Hotel.
NOTE CALLS LIFE FAILURE
Brother of Frank j. GOdsOl and
Leaves Wife, Whose For
giveness He Asks.

A bellboy walking through the writ
ing room on the mezzanine floor OF the
Ritz Carlton Hotel at $40 o'clock last
night noticed a we'll dressed man bent
over one OF the desks with his head
resting on his hands. The boy thought
the man might be i'll and stepped
nearer TO inquire. He saw blood flow
ing from his mouth and there was a
pistol. still smoking slightly, at his
elbow. and the boy without further de-
lay called for help.
Less than three hours later the man
was dead in Flower Hospital, a suicide
according to the police Of the East
Fifty-frst street station. lie was
identified by his wife as Louis II.
Goldsol, architect and brother Of
Frank ]. Godsol. who was credited in
1918 with having piled UP fortune of
S6,o00.oo0 IN commissions on autoro-
bile purchases for the French Govern
ment.
Two notes were left BY Goldsoi. the
police said One was addressed to his
wife. but with a telephone number only.
The other was addressed to Frank God
sol and seemed to attempt to explain
that the writer was a business failure
and tired of living
John NJ. Sanderson. manager OF the
hotel. refused to discuss the suicide. He
would not admit he knew about It at
first. but finally said he understood a
man had been found injured. but tina.
the injury was received somewhere out
side OF the hotel.
At the Ritz II was learned that Frank
Godsol lives there with his wife At
the home of Louis Goldsol, 157 West
Flfty-seventh street, IL was learned that
he and his wife frequently went to the
hotel to see Frank Godsol. No one could
be found who could explain the relation
ship and the difference in the spelling
of the two last names.
The finding OF Goldsol dying at a desk
in as public a place as the writing room
of big hotel was point OF consider
able mystery to the police. The bellboy
who first noticed him had heard no shot
and so far as could be learned there was
no one In the lobby or on the mezxaninc
floor who heard the report OF the shot.
An examination of the pistol, an auto
matte using a .32 caiiprc bullet, showed
that one shell had been discharged.
Jammed In the chamber was a second,
and this indicated TO the police that
though one bullet had penetrated his
head at a point that meant death to
him he still tried to fire a second
Goldsol was unconscious when taker
from the hotel by Dr. Brodsky OF
Flower Hospital. Or. Brodsky said the
wound in his head showed he placed the
barrel of the pistol in his mouth. The
bullet entered the roof Of the mouth al
the left side and its course carried 1,
to the base OF the brain. Surgeons a,
the hospital considered an operat tion the
only means Of saving Goldsol's life and
they were preparing to perform one
when he died.
Mrs. Goldsol was at the hospital when
her husband died. She became hysteri-
cal and had to be attended. After She
was revived the police turned over to
her a note written few minutes before
GoIdsoI fired the shot through his brain.
In II he asked forgiveness and. according
to the police. requested that she use
what money she could spare to meet
some of his debts.
Frank Godsol was not al the hotel when
his brother was found and he had not
returned at a late hour last night.