Show ENDS UFE Ea Earnest nest Stedman Throws Himself Himself Himself Him Him- I self Before Train and Is Cut to Pieces BROODED OVER REVERSES Suicide One of Best Known Known- Men in Financial World New York Dec 26 Ernest Erest Ernest Stedman Stedman Stedman Sted Sted- man th the millionaire lawyer tawyer and real estate operator cousin or of ot Edmund C Clarence rence Stedman the poet banker wa was run over and cut to this pieces mornIng morn- morn Ing Ki at the tho Fourteenth street subway st station ton by a northbound local train Charles buff Kouff Houe the motorman of the train rain and tho only eye witness to the tho tragedy who has been found declared to o the tho police that tho tIme millionaire had deliberately thrown himself under under tho the wheels and arid that it was a 3 clear case or of suicIde At the time of the tragedy which occurred during the tho morning rush hours the subway station staton was densely denely crow crowded cr and ant when It I was was learned that a 0 man had been killed led a 0 wild wid panic Col followed owed Men len and ana women rushed for tor forthe the he exits and dresses and hats were wore anc torn tor orn In the tho frenzied efforts of those In n the time station staton to reach tho the street street Probable Cause c of or Act Ac The Tho only reason for the suicide of ot If It suicide it was was which can cane be le e advanced ot b by the dead mans man's friends Is s the recent recent financial trouble ot of tho the J J. 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C Lyons Building and Operating company compan of which he was wa vice Ice president dent t and ant treasurer The rho Lyons company com corn pany was placed In tho the hands hants of a a re re- elver celver on December 21 by Judge Hough o of the tho States Slates court Its Is ties les tes wore were caused b by the tight money market and its Is Inability to meet current current current cur cur- rent bills owed to contractors doing the he work of or tho company Mechanics Mechanics' liens lens to the extent o ofT Of had recently been filed fed again the he concern and It I was on the motion motOn of some of oC these that tho the receivers appointed were ere Intimate friends and ana business asso Aso elates chides o of Mr Stedman say aay that his dif hi- hi dl In the Lyons company was of ot minor importance because he te was worth considerably more than a roll roll- mi lon lion In his own right and tb that t his wife was worth ia as much more Thoy They also more declare that the time assets asset ot or the Lyons Lyonl company are arc nearly while the liabilities are arc approximately leaving a n balance of ot on tho right side of or the l ledger Much Aff AUtel tc l lIt b by n Reverses ve It I Is la Known h hoWever wo er that the fail lail- failure ure urn of ar the tho con company of ot of which he h was a tho the financial n roan man An tilts has n weh hc upon Mr Ir Stedman that that hc he baa wui tt i J been en greatly depressed the ap- ap 1 ct Ity of time Uio to receiver PaT rm tam amUel l L I Gold on ono of or lh th the receivers Sd Jd I today toda- toda that tho the lend dead It r hat bad boen I c completely hla reverse Mr Mm f. f Stedman Sins Ins been boon a changed man since o tho Lon Lyons company tailed failed air Mr GOl Goldsticker said today lid He hanot has ha not taken any Interest In business an and iconis cems to have o ha completely lost tho the grasp rasp or of his affairs While hlo the business business busi busi- ness o of the thc Lyons company Is I not greatly Involved and J r believe o beHo could ha have v 1 boon been untangled within a rz few tew weeks eks he he seemed to feel f el that thero there was was an indelible disgrace attached to the mere fact that ho Ito w was s not ablo able to meet meet his obligations tho ml minute they hey were svere due lip He was very vory proud and gave the Impression that he felt keenly the opinion of others and that the tho failure fail fail- ure uro would lessen him bins In the esteem of those whose good will ho cared for for Edward H. H Cumbers Mr Stedman's private secretary said today that his employer suffered frequently from n vertigo vet ver and that he believed the man was suddenly attacked today when ho homet homet met his death Search for Wife lIfe A pathetic phase of the tho tragedy was ho frantic search that was made for Mrs Stedman by her friends In order that hat she should not receive the tho shock of reading of her husbands husband's death In inthe the he newspapers With her husband she left eft her imer home borne early and drove with him as far as a ruling riding school from where she was to take tako a ride In Cen- Cen tm ral park When the tho news non's of time tho tragedy tragedy trag trag- edy was brought to tho Stedman home she was still riding and she did not return until nearly 1 She was met by Edmund Clarence Stedman lien her husbands husband's cousin who told her that there had been an accident She Sime collapsed col lapsed completely nod the facts concerning eon con Mr Stedman's death had not been told her late tonight Mr Stedman had no children His Rb widow Is a laughter daughter of time the late lato Dr Marcy and a niece of Governor and Mrs Marc Marcy She inherited a fortune estimated at more than a million from her father and this property Is said to have greatly Increased In value since them Mr Stedman was a member of many clubs among them the University Union and Yale and he wits considered consid consid- ered cred an authority on International law from the tho practice of which he de derived do- do rived a largo large Income He lie was waa born in imi Hartford Conn in 1815 and graduated graduated grad grad- from Yale in 1867 |