Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-15
HIS LAST TRIP.
A Travelling Man POiSOnS Himself
at the Pacific House.
He Leaves a Business Like Note
But Assigns no Cause.
Several Pawn Tickets Indicate
Bare Shedding.

About noon yesterday the discovery
was made that one Of the guests Of
the Pacific house was lying dead In his
room. He proved to be Q stranger
who came to the hotel Wednesday
morning ami registered as "H. O,
Francis, N Y" When found he was
quite cold and rigid, and had sppar.
emily died sometime during the night.
There was froth about his mouth and
indications Of having been polls.
oned. He was q fine looking man,
apparently about thirty.five years of
nge, rather dark co%mple1loned and a
full beard, trimmed rather close
Upon the table was a pad of writing
paper, on the frat sheet Of which he had
written In a round, firm hand, very
bu,iness.like, the following words:
June 13.-"My real name Is Harry +.
Crane. l have been travelling for the
Jewell Betting 90 Hartford, Conn. 1
have poisoned myself. 1 have q trunk,
the check for which, Is In my pants pocket.
1t Is at Transfer depot. Telegraph Jewell
Betting Co., Hartford, Conn.
Under his pillow were four little
bottles Of morphine pills. His cloth
Ing wat hanging up In the room, and
In his pooketbook were found railway
checks and a number of business cards
of Field g. WEIGH, quarry men, OF
Quincy, Mass. There was also q post.
office order for $40, dated Charlton,
Iowa, June 4, and payable at Quincy,
Mass. Two pawn tickets were also
found, both belonging to Omaha. One
was fora diamond pin at Lehman's, on
which $44 was due July IL, indicsting
that he had pawned 1t about the 18th
of this month. The other pawn ticket
was at Fred Mobiles, for q gold watch
and chain, on which $27. 90 was due,
the date of the loan being June IL.
Both tickets have the name of Travis
instead of Crane. These tickets indi-
cate that he was In Omaha Tuesday
last, and for some reason got short OF
funds, and pawned his jswelry. There
was found In his pockeTbook $27. 80 In
cash.
Coroner Faul was notified and q jury
impaneled, oonsisting of H. j. Henry,
e, Il. Odell and Charles D. Parmelee.
Mr.. Ferguson, the proprietor of the
hotel, teatifed a. to the man coming
to the hotel, but he had not noticed
anything peculiar about him. He
was no aud down stairs, and about
the Off 90 much the day before. In
the evening the man wanted q boy to
go to q drug store, and the boy went
over but could not get what he went
for, and the man seemed quite angry
and went himself.
From the testimony Of DR.. McKune
1t appeared what he went for. He
said that the boy came to the store
first aud wanted some morphine for a
man at the hotel. The boy was told
that they could not give 1t to him, but
that the man himself must come after
1t. Soon the man appeared and re
queuted some morphine. He was In
torrogsted as to what he wanted 1t for,
and said that he suffered greatly 81
times from neuralgia, and wanted 1,
for that. He was going on,
west, where he could not get any very
well, 1t being out Ia the MINING dls-
triot, and wanted two bottles. The
bottles were sold to him, and he
signed the register, as Is usually re-
quired when poison Ia bought. The
fact that four bottles were found ir
his room, indicates that he must have
purchased two more at some Other
place. What he wanted of 80 much
for suicidal purposes Ia q mystery.
The porter, j. q. Penman, testified
that the deceased In the evening askec
for Q pitcher of ioed tea, and said HI
wanted to get fixed for the night. II,
said he had sent owe to get som,
medicine, and acted az though In pain
> DR.. Cook testified that there Wal
about II grains missing from one
bottle, and that one, half q grain woulc
cause death ordinarily.
The body was taken care of by Mr..
Cornell, the undertaken, and tele-
grams sent as directed In his last note
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