--Jacob Eitel, who was fifty-two years old and a watchman, and who lived at 414 East Ninth Street with his wife and three children, committed suicide on Sunday night by hanging himself with a piece of jute rope to shafting on the second floor of the Wynkoop Building, 411 Pearl Street. His act was said to be due to litigation between himself and his brother Charles over a house left to them by their mother.

Source:

Unknown, "City and Suburban News," The New York Times, New York, Tuesday, 28 February 1893, p. 2.