"LOST LIFE BY STAB IN FALLING ON INK ERASER, EVADING SIX YOUNG WOMEN TRYING TO GIVE HIM BIRTHDAY KISSES"

This link comes from the ever-connected Dj Bryan. Filmaker "pes" recounts his wanderings in Woodlawn cemetary in the Brox, home to the grave of Herman Mellville and (apparently) a band of wild coyotes.

Most interestingly, he talks about this tombstone inscription:

"LOST LIFE BY STAB IN FALLING ON
INK ERASER, EVADING SIX YOUNG
WOMEN TRYING TO GIVE HIM
BIRTHDAY KISSES IN OFFICE
METROPOLITAN LIFE BUILDING"

This is whar an ink eraser looks like:

From New York Times article from February 16, 1909:

"Yesterday he came down and remarked that it was the anniversary of the wreck of the Maine. He explained that he knew it because the ship had been blown up on his birthday and that he was 15 yesterday.At once the girls began to tease him. They told him that on such an occasion he desereved a kiss, and every one of them vowed that as soon as office hours were over she would kiss him once for every year that he had lived. He laughingly declared that not a girl should get near him, and was teased about it all day.As 4:30 o'clock came, and the boy's work was over, the girls made a rush for him. They tried to hem him in, and he tried to break their line. Suddenly he reeled and feel, crying as he did so."I'm stabbed!""

The whole article is worth a read: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/inkeraserstabbing_nytimes1.pdf

And on a side note, the New York Times has its entire archives online, starting from the 1850s.