A STRANGE SUICIDE. Ordering His Cremation.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

A STRANGE SUICIDE. Ordering His Cremation.

Egmont Yon Tilly, calling himself a German count, formerly an officer in the Prussian army, committed suicide in Now Ycrk by shooting' himself in the right teniple. Hu occupied a well-furnished room in a fashionable boarding-house in West Twenty-fourth-street, and was a teacher of languages in a private school. He retired at 9 o'clock Sunday night, apparently in £ood fejiii its. Tljc servant noticed that he had not ri.sen as usual at 9 o'clock on Monday mornhig. She tried his door and found it locked. She reported this facb to her mi.stre I^, and at the same timo, Miss Gaiuos, a daughter of the landlady, found the following 'note in Yon Tilly's handwriting in her room on the mantelpiece : Mi s Nelly : If son will have the kindness to Match the crcmanon oi my body, so that you co Mel take an oal'i that my body wag cremated, >on may keep llH"ja(sdol^ If you do not like lo lake (he trouble' you can give the 65 dol. to Mr 13 lack's church. Egmont Yon Tiixy. Tdly had been in the country three ycai -. When speaking of his native country he sometime-} talked strangely, saying that the Emperor of Germany and all the o-fiicials were hi< enemies, and had magnetised him. He was a vegetarian. From letters left behind, it appears that Tilly en me to New Yoik because of unreturned love for the daughter of Geneial Ccstocq, of f Ijo J'i u-^ian ;n my : not being satisfied with hi-, lifo here, he determined on suicide. He lotfc a Mill, directing the cremation of his body. Ho leaver a .small sum of money to pay his expenses and directs that a ring be >ent to his lad) love.