The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-09-10
ONE LESS cEXAS CIR ASK.
He SUICIDES IN NETWORK CITY.
=, a.. Raok Blows his lrains out In Cs n
trai rRrk-A Mass of Letters efIn-
ssns Inspiration Lefs to prom-
iuent People in this
state and Elssw hers.

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this morhlng the dead body Of man
was found In q summer-houso in Con-
trail Park. He wal about co
years of age, foot 10 inches
in height, gray hair, full gray
board, were loose sack coat and black
velvet vest, grey pants, boots and
white shirt. On his person was bag
containing two phisls OF poison, label
led Washington, a package OF arsenic
| and large revolver. He IL supposed
| 10 no Il. 3. Bush, H8 lad letters Co
leading mon throughout tho country,
including eN-Presidont Arthur, aud
also letters sidrossod 10 all tho nows-
papers OF this city.
Tho deceased had ended his life by
shooting. A park policeman, who
heard the report OF the weapon, hur-
ried 10 tho spot and found the oil man
leaning against q railing with his
face covered with blood, A murder
ous looking revolver dropped from
his hand rs the officer came up. He
/ gRsped convulsively twice and died.
HO had shot himself through ths
the right temple and the bullet had
entered his brain. Before tho shoot
ing he had tied himself 10 the railing
with rope. In q small leather
sachel that lay beside him was found
A MASS OF LETTERS,
sealed aud provided with stamps,
each with pencil note on tho
reyorse side, giving TO the finder the
alternative OF opening them aud read
ing their contents or mailing them
lust rs they were. There were letters
addressed 10 ex-President Arthur, the
editors of the Galveston News, tho
BGudora Bugle end the San Antonio
Express, in ToSas, and TO tho Louis
vile Courier ourual ana the Republi.
can in st. Louis; TO Governor Hub
bard and Governor john Ireland, at
Austin, Texas; Governor o. II. Rob.
erts, also 1t Austin, aud large pack
age Of enclosed letters and
notes tn most OF the newspapers i'll the
city. Besides these there were cards
of the Parker hotel ~ Washington
and the Eagle ihotel Of Jersey City, At
both of which the desd man had owl
IDENTIFY stopped.
The poison had been bought in
Washington, az the label shows. Some
of tho letters were also dated Wash.
ington, as far back RI the beginning Of
last month and were written within Il
few days in this city. They were all
the rawlings of an insane man, and
from them IL appeared that the suicide
was in pursuit of
A CRANKY SCHEME
10 redeem the world on new and
better plan than the old ono. IL ap-
psared also from the letters that tho
writer was Texan and did not have q
cent A long rambling sermon On
purity,the text for which was furnished
by Parson Newmsn's funeral sermon
on General Grant,.was dedicated to the
statesmen, the moralists, tha better
-nluds and the better thinkers OF So
cleiy and of the world" There were
special addresses to Bob IngeLso!l and
Henry Ward Beecher, whom the writer
designated ss two of the best men
on the globe, and charged them TO
keep sight OF their work, but To dig
deeper"
II know you would be progressive"
10 wrote to Mr.. Beecher. "You came
pcstty near knowing something once"
He charged Mr.. Baecher and Mr.. In
gersoll with the duty of seeing that the
mass or mess Of heterogeneous stuff"
which he had left behind should
be published 20 the world. Ho esti
nated the amount at 1000 pages. all of
Buck, or deposited in the
bank OF George Y. Sturgis, OF
aillsboro, Texas. In one letter
no sp pIse OF au attempt at snicide he
mado in the Astor house on January
s, 1884, and he wrote about his failure
with regret. The lettors that woIid
have been found with his dead body
then, he said, were in the
hands of his son Daniel, at Blooming
Grove, Texas. Reference was aisC
made in letter of projected at.
tempt at suicide in Washington thar
likewise came to nothing The time
set was apparently Con. Grants
funeral day and the place
the Hotel Parker, but lie afterwerd
gave the project up.
TO MIR. ARTHUR,
The letter to ex-Presldent Arthur
was aa follows:
New York, Sept. ITO President Arthur:
L wrote you in the greatest distress
that l YVES going to help the
world. You paid no attention to me.
What have you NOW 10 say about pu-
rification of the race.
Respectfully,
II. II. BUCK,
In one of his letters no refers to The
Louisville Journal and Republican as
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