| Show A PLACE OF SUICIDES BEAUTIFUL LOOKOUT HILL MADE FAMOUS BY washington A spot in magnificent where despondent people go to commit suicide memories that about alie neighborhood most new yorkers know very little of lookout hill in prospect park brooklyn except that they occasionally see some mention of it in the newspapers one who was asked for information abent it the other day described it as a place where fools from new york go to commit suicide boras times this description of lookout hill ia hardly a fair one it is tree however that for some reason men who want to commit suicide do somehow manage very frequently to drift out to this part of brooklynn Brook lyns tig park to carry out their intentions but they dont all of them go from new york there have been two suicides there by the two that preceded these hofei er were men from new boik and of the many prior to these brooklyn may bo charged with the most of them one snowy day a well dressed man hired a cab in this city and was driven rapidly over the bridge to brooklyn and out to prospect park when the cab reached the city line the young mau got out and sent it back to new york then he went into a saloon near by he left the saloon entered the park walked through the driving snow to the summit of lookout hill and there shot himself A policeman heard the shot and found the body of the suicide still warm but he was dead he had evidently intended that should be nothing cheap or vulgar about the affair for even the revolver used by him was of the most es bensn e pattern and mako and had been bought new for the purpose he was identified as a columbia college student belonging to a anew york family of es cellena standing the suicide before thia was nho that of a new york man and it attracted borne little attention at the time by rea eon of the fact eliat there was a mix up about the identification of the body this had lain on the hill BO ion before it was fouad that it coald be identified only by the clothes on it and by the formation of the body it was formally identified at the brooklyn morgue the morning it was found as the body of a new york printer who had through despondency taken hi life this identification was maie by two members of typographical union no G who had known the man later that day the body was again identified as that of a barber doing business on third avenue in this city and this identification was finally found to be correct the most curious thing about this case was the physical likeness of the printer and the barber the barber was deformed that is he had a club foot the same was true of the printer and it was the left foot that was deformed as waa the case with the barber they were physically alike otherwise then the printer s friends identified tho clothing the shoes and the bat and even a knifa that was in the pocket of the suicide but writer knows that for ho reported the first identification for an afternoon paper the second was made too imite for notice that day and in about a week afterward the printer brought suit against that paper for damages for saying eliat he committed suicide he get tho but he did prove to the satisfaction of all that he very much alive A FLAGS but there have been auy number of suicides on lookout hill Brooklyn ites are inclined to object to the use that is made of this picturesque spot and as for the prospect park police they more than object they constantly patrol the neighborhood of the hill and any lounger about there is bure to have a very careful eye kept upon him by the blue coated guardians of the park lookout hill is ono of prospect parks picturesque and historical spots it is a high hill looking out over the big lake narl the and is heavily wood ed As a point from which to view the surrounding country it is floru its brow you can seo for nies in all directions coney island manhattan beach and even far rockaway are visible to the naked eye flatbush and other towns nesting down among the trees and tha farms bt retching out over the level country present a fine scene at this season general washington used this very hill to make observations from when he waa holding brooklyn and watching for the expected landing of sir henry clinton on LOUK island it was from here that the american generals watched cliftons Clin tons movements whoa preparing for the disastrous battle rt long inland that resulted in the retreat of washington to the heights above the harlem and gave new york city into the bands of sir henry clinton the tide of battle swept nil around the hill and in the green beld below it good blood tho sward ant times have battles are still fought in the field below lookout hill the aham battles of the brooklyn militia and the lull itself is no longer visited by great generals those who want to commit suicide go there instead new york recorder |
