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Show A UIVKR ilYsTEKY. New York Mnu Kml. HI. Life or Troul.lo by Suicide. Nkw Vokk June a. -Several Italians wore eating their supper about tu i. m. Thiirfcluv night on a baive at the fisit ul Knt Seventieth street heii two men i.td a Woman came down to the wharf, talking loudly. The louelv spot was llghtej only by the inuou. One of the uicnjunipeddowntotha nUiln of the barge, passed the Italians, and walked alouif the edge of the boat to the Hfern. The Italians thought he was going to tBke a swim. Uctook oft his coat and carefully foWed It up. then his hut and laid it on top nt tlio coat. Then he went overboard. Th'.s did not look ike going In for a wim. Tho Italians threw him a rope, but he wouldn't take t'.'He shook his hand nt the man ami woman on shore, crying o.it somethlug like this; ,'My lite ls ruU ot trouble." The couple were sitting on the stringp:ece of the deck and looked on without the least apparent concern as the man drowned. Then they turned away. The police did not leant who the suicide wa. A reporter asked the people in an adjacent saloon sa-loon if they had learned ot a man drowuiug himself at the foot of the street. "Has he drowned himself;" a young woman asked. "1 was afraid he would do mmiethiug. He told my mother last night that he was tired ot living and he left here about p. ni. He hud been drinking and telling about his misfortune. He lost his wife a year ago in a railway accident acci-dent ut Nyaik." A man identified the hat and coat as those of Benjamin lloer. Hoer was a cigar milker. He has peroral children w ho are living with a sister In Brooklyn. It is possible that tho two iwoplo who sat and saw htin drown were strangers whom he had wearied by telling them his nUsfortunos. which he told to everybody when he had been drinking. |