August 29, ‘Brooklyn Salesman A Suicide By Gas’
Brooklyn Today
Good morning, Brooklyn. Today is the 241st day of the year.
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ON THIS DAY in 1909, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Brooklyn Salesman A Suicide By Gas.” The article focused on a traveling salesman who committed suicide at a hotel in Manhattan.
“Despondent because business was dull, it is supposed, E.F. Meyers, a traveling salesman of 444 Putnam avenue, Brooklyn, committed suicide in the Ashland House,” the Eagle reported. “The porter climbed out on the fire escapes and into the room through the window. He found the salesman on his back on the floor with one end of a rubber tube tied around his neck, and the other end attached to a gas jet above his head.”
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