Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-14 | Page 3 | Leaped into Sea in Mid-Lake

LEAPED INTO SEA IN MID-LAKE New York Stock Broker Commits Suicide While En Houte From Cleveland to Buffalo. BUFFALO, N Y.. May 13. A man believed to have been a New York stock broker named Snell jumped from a Cleveland & Buffalo steamer when the vessel was about three hours out from Cleveland last evening. A traveling man who refused to give his name tells the following story of the suicide; "I was sitting In the buffet about 10 o'clock when a short, heavy, red-fneed man entered. "We got Into conversation and he told me his name was Snell. He said among other things that he was llnanclally Involved to the extent of 31CC.000 through deals in cotton, and that he was going to kill himself because be-cause of his trouble. He threatened three times to take his life and I urged him not to do anything rnslu When we left the buffet I called the attention of a couple of deck hando to him. A minute min-ute or two later I heard one of them cry out that he had gone overboard. The captain at once ordered a life-boat lowered and the steamer was brought to a stop as quickly sw. possible. "Snell went to Cleveland on the same j vessel from Buffalo "Wednesday night. The body was not recovered," Dispatches from New York say that nothing is known there of an alleged j shortago In his accounts of a man named Snell, nor is there any broker in the city of that 7iamc. Another report of the suicide gives the man's name- as "Charles Small, a broker of New York city."