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On May 12, 1900, fifty-two year old longshoreman Jacob Rauscher committed suicide here by shooting himself in the chest.

Five months prior, Rauscher's wife, the janitress of this tenement building, was killed when a gasoline stove exploded in the couple's apartment. Rauscher quit his job and took over his wife's janitorial duties, but fell into a depression and subsequently, his duties grew unsatisfactory for building owner C. E. Hyde (who served Rauscher eviction papers).

A day before the suicide, Rauscher told a friend who owned a funeral parlor up the block, “You'll have two jobs pretty soon. I'm going to kill that man Hyde and then myself.”

A bartender at a local saloon notified police when Rauscher did not show up for his daily morning drink, fearing he finally went through with his threats. Police investigated and found Rauscher lying on the floor near-death, with a revolver in his hand.

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- In November of 1886,  Henry Lestrange killed William Walker during an argument at a saloon in the basement of this address. It seems there was a long standing dispute between the two which climaxed around five o'clock on this evening as Walker walked into the saloon, only to encounter Lestrange waiting at the bar. The two exchanged words and Lestrange pulled out a revolved and shot Walker, sending him to the floor stating, “Boys, I'm shot!” Walker was taken to the hospital where surgeons performed a laparotomy on his abdomen, but died a few days later in severe agony, telling his dad, “Father, I think I am going to leave you.” Lestrange was well known to police, having just been paroled from Sing Sing Prison for the shooting of a deputy sheriff at Dobbs Ferry.

- On September 29, 1892, Captain Frank Paulson, an elderly veteran of the Civil War, was hacked to death in the room he rented in this building. An acquaintance named Frank W. Roehl was visiting Paulson after drinking all afternoon at a local saloon, where he skipped out on the sixty-cent tab. After the murder, Roehl returned to the saloon and asked, “how much do I owe you?” as he placed money he just stole from his victim on the bar. Roehl was standing at the bar when Police officer Emanuel Myer walked in attempted to arrest Roehl. A struggle ensued and Roehl drew his axe on the officer. Myer hit Roehl with his baton and knocked the axe out of his hands. It took four police officers to wrestle Roehl to the ground and place him under arrest.

- On July 20, 1910, a Russian-born jeweler, Setrah Avanessoff was found murdered here only ten days after arriving in America. Avanessoff found employment at a jewlery store on the ground floor of this address. Seventeen year old shop assistant Max Schopowitz, being the only person in the store at the time of the murder, told police that Avenessoff shot himself. Authorities believed the story at first and mistook a wound on the head as a gunshot wound, which backed up the boys claim. However, the head wound was a result of Avenessoff hitting the floor after being shot in the back, an autopsy revealed. Schopowitz was quickly arrested and tried for the murder.