St. Paul daily globe., 1884-07-02
SELF DESTRUCTION.
A Bullet in His Brain Does the Work
Very Effectually.
The Victim Unknown and the Cause Of the
Deed Mystery.

| A little after o'clock yesterday afternoon
the porter and others in the St. Thomas hotel,
on Wacouta street, between Third and Fourth
streets, heard pistol shot, and upon going
up stairs into the third story, found
man in one of the rooms who
had evidently just committed
suicide. The man was undressed and in
bed, lying upon his back with two pillows
under his head. His right hand had dropped
across his breast, and between his right arm
and his body lay a small, cheap revolver,
such as is seen in the windows of second
hand stores. In the right temple was bull
let hole, from which blood was freely flowing.
The mans clothing was on a chair near the
bed, and everything indicated that the case
was one of deliberate and calmly planned
suicide. Those who first went up seeing
what had been done, cleared the room and
locked the door. The coroner, having in the
meantime been notified, arrived in a few
minutes after and made an examination of
the man. By the time he arrived the blood
had flowed from the wound to such an extent
as to fill the bed
APPEARANCE OF THE MAN.
The deceased was man about five feet,
eight or nine inches in height, as one would
judge from the way he lay in the
bed, and between fifty and
sixty years of age, and of rather a
full habit. He had rather a large head and
face, with a broad, high forehead. His face
was smoothly shaved, while rather heavy
grey moustache graced his upper lip. The
face and genuine appearance of the deceased
was that of well disposed, benevolent man,
who, at some period in his existence, had
possessed a competency.
WHAT Is KNOWN OF HIM HERE.
Very little is known of him here. Some
of those in the hotel, where he has been for
had been running for some
emigrant house, and that he had
been in the habit of doing odd jobs of work,
such as he could find to do from time to
time, and in this way he had picked up
kind of living, such as it was. They all
give the man good character as to general
conduct, but none Of them know where he
came from nor what his former circumstances
were, nor had he told any of them what
troubles and misfortunes had forced him to
He was fairly well dressed and wore bla ok
silk hat
NOTE FOUND.
Upon the stand, at the head of the bed,
was found a letter in a yellow envelope. The
superscription was as follows: ''Lewis Stone,
ESQ.,, National Home, Milwaukee county,
Wis., The letter was dated: 'Havana,
ILL.,, April %, 1884" and was signed Mar
garet Stone, and addressed, ''My dear huss
band" 1t was written in lead pencil. Tae
composition punctuation, capital letters,
&C., were all correct, and the statements
made were clearly and sensibly ex-
pressed. There was nothing special
in the letter. The writer regretted
that they were separated and hoped they
would soon be together soon, and was mostly
filed with private affairs. On the outside of
the envelope were written these words, in
cramped, inexperienced hand:
My dear wife teck my pin in my hand to let
you know am eating batter sen left the home
becaase my mint was so obset taing about you.
There was no signature attached to this
note, and from the fact that the envelope is
directed to Lewis Stone and the the letter is
signed Margret Stone, it is supposed the name
of the deceased was Lewis Stone. Several
other names were found in memorandum
books and on odd scraps of paper, and he
registered by some other name. The coron-
er took it for granted that his name was
Stone, and telegraphed to Illinois. On
searching for his effects but little was found.
Two dollars and four cents was all the money
he had. A few little matters, which the cor
oner tied up in a handkerchief, constituted
all the deceased mans worldly wealth. The
inquest will be held to-day.