Since Crater was a successful New York Supreme Court Judge, many have suspected murder, but a solid lead has never been found. A search of his apartment revealed one clue. It was a note attached to a check, and both were left for his wife. The note could have been nothing more than a thought at the end of a hard day. Or, it could have meant a great deal more - the epitaph of a despairing man.
Weariness is tough.
I don't mean the physical weariness that comes from mowing the lawn or the mental weariness that follows a hard day of decisions and thinking. No, I mean the weariness that comes just before you give up - that feeling of honest desperation. It's the dispirited father, the abandoned child, or the retiree with time on his hands. It's that stage of life when motivation disappears. Only one man in history has claimed to have an answer for it.