am J. Gaynor of New York |
|City was shot and seriously, perhaps |
|fatally, wounded on board the steamer |
|Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse at 9:30 as he |
|was sailing for Europe. |

Resulting pursuit:

| The police of Brooklyn have another |
|murder mystery to unravel through the |
|finding early today of the body of Peter |
|Barilla on Lincoln road, near Nostrand |
|avenue, Flatbush. There were two bullet |
|wounds in the body and four stab wounds |
|in the back.--_Brooklyn Eagle._ |

Attendant circumstances:

| A hundred or more persons who were |
|about to take trains witnessed the |
|shooting to death of a Jersey City |
|business man in the Pennsylvania Railroad|
|station there this afternoon.--_New York |
|Mail._ |

=4. Suicide.=--What is true of murder stories is also true of suicide.
Each individual case has an unusual feature of its own. We ordinarily
find a good beginning in the manner of the suicide, the name of the
person who has killed himself if he is well known, the reason for the
act, or some one of the attendant circumstances--often the manner of
resuscitation if the crime is unsuccessful. For some unexplained reason
many papers do not print accounts of ordinary suicides, except when the
individual is prominent. At any rate the story must be told without
gruesome details and as briefly as possible.

Examples from the press:

Name:

| William L. Murray of Rockview avenue, |
|North Plainfield, paying teller of the |
|Empire Trust Company of New York, |
|committed suicide at Scotch Plains early |
|this afternoon by shooting himself in the|
|head. No reason is assigned for the |
|act.--_New York Sun._ |

Motive:

| Driven insane by continued brooding |
|over ill health, Miss Ada Emerson, a |
|former teacher in the Beloit city |
|schools, killed herself in a crowded |
|interurban car Saturday afternoon by |
|slashing her throat with a |