A STRANGE SUICIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1887, Page 7

A STRANGE SUICIDE.

Ordering His Cremation. tojuJskTTox Tilly, calling himself a Geran count, formerly an officer in the Pr.us- : • n armY, committed suicide in New Yci'k. L shooting himself in the right, temple. ?Tp-occupied a well-furnished room in a f hionable , boarding-house in West laSi® s -aiffivate-sdrooL ifo o'clock Sunday night, apparently in sDirits. ; The servant noticed that lie Snot risen as usual at 9 o'clock on MonS«v mornn". She tried his door and fnund it locked. She reported this fact ♦«w mistress, and at -the same time, Miss g£ ofthe landlady, found rte following note mi Yon lilly s handwriting in her room on the mantelpiece : M« Kelly: If you will have the kindness to the cremation bL mv body, so that you SK'Wi oath that mr body was cremated. vSykcep thcsoCSaol. If you do not hko to W thfii trouble' you can kiyc the 05 dol. to jfr-Black's-churcli. 'Tfflv "haa been in the country three xkias Ttfhen speaking of his native country be sometimes talked strangely saying that the Emperor of Germany and all the officials were his enemies, and had magn6tiSeiriiuh. He was a vegetarian. From letters left behind, it appears that Tilly came to New York because of unreturned lovo for the'daughter of General Oestocq, of the Prussian .army ; nob being: satisiied with his life here, he determined on suicide. He left a will, directing the cremation of his body. He leaves sum of money to pay -ins -expenses, -and -directs that-a ring |c Bent to.his lady love.