Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-02-06
He LEFT LETTERS.
Announcing His Intention to Com
nit Murder or Suicide-Sensation
al Developments In the Case of The
Missing DR.. Richmond.

IT Joseph, Mo-, special.-The latest de-
yelopment in the Richmond mystery is the
publication of series of letters which were
found in the doctors valise on the night
when he came to st. Joseph. and is supposed
TO have drowned himself 1t will be remem-
| bered that on the evening Of Friday, the
| 18th inst, Richmond arrived at the Francis
| street depot here from Chicago, gave his va
| Ilse to bus driver and told him To take il TO
| his house. That night when he did not
show p the valse was opened and a bun
die of letters found. These were not given
| publicity until to-day, i'm the hope that the
missing man might be fOUnd: but now that
all hope is gone, they are given 20 the press.
In them he reviews his career in the Samar-
itan nervine business; his ups and downs
and troubles. To sum the matter up in a
nutshell they are a series of allegations
against James w. Strong, the proprietor of
the Herald, who was one of his attorneys:
WinslOw JudsOn, the president of the board
OF trade. who was at one time secretary of
the Nervine company; II. p. Hubbard, the
New Haven advertising man, and John f.
Tyler, prominent real estate man of this
city, who acted as referee in an action of
Hubbard against Richmond in a suit on an
advertising bill of $4,000. These men are
charged with conspiring for his ruin, with
having defrauded and driven him crazy. He
wrote a letter
To HIS WIFE,
which is as follows:
JANUARY Is, ISs5.-DEAR EVA AND
CHILDREN-It breaks my heart TO write you
this, but IL cannet be avoided. You know
for some time | have not been well, and
have been unable to sleep. | have left home
several times during the past few months
on plea OF business. when, in reality, IT
was TO get away and keep out of sight of
JudsOn and Tyler. J became almost raving
every time | met them. They prey on my
mind day and night. There is one of two
things-l have either got to kill them or
commit suicide or go to the lunatic asylum.
L cannot stand this pressure any longer. |
would have killed them long ago, only
don't want to disgrace you and my children.
will either kill them tonight or throw my
self in the Missouri and drown myself
write this letter on the train. | am on the
Maryville branch and get off at FraHcs
street depot am miserable and unhappy
man. After | went To Chicago | thought
the matter over and concluded that it would
be wrong to get Jim into an advertising con
tract that could not carry out, for | would
be liable 10 shoot these men any day.
Here follow some directions in regard to
carrying on the Nervne business. and also
in regard to settling UP some other business
matters, which would be of no interest to
the public.
when [ am dead and gone think of me
and pray for me, that | may be saved and
meet you in heaven. write this letter with |
a bleeding heart and eyes full OF tears. Live |
AoI, gf Ior- f,,% er,
Christian woman; also raise up my children |
TO be- good Christians. am 50 ful! of grief |
cannot write more. May God bless you |
and my children. | bid you farewell on |
earth, and hope 10 meet you in heaven. |
Your affectiOnate husband,
S.A. RICHMOND.
He concludes Lis letters
TO THE PUBLIC
in the following words:
am going crazy, and know it. will |
commit suicide by throwing myself in the |
Missouri river before | will go to an asylum. |
have often tried 70 raise courage enough |
to shoot these Judases. God knows | am |
not a bad man at heart. | would rather take |
my own life than take the life of another, |
and when my body is recovered please have |
inscribed upon my tomb the following:
"Dr. s. A. RichmOnd-bOrn in 1916 near |
Carnage, lll.-murdered January ID, 1886, |
by WinslOw JudsOn, IL. L. Hubbard, John |
+. Tyler and j. W. Strong.
II write these lines with fearful eyes and |
with a broken and crushed heart | now
bid YOU farewell. ). A. RICHMOND.
1t is only just to the parties mentioned in
these letters to say that there is no evidence
confirming the doctors allegations, and the
general belief is that they are emotions of
a brain disOrdered by excessive trouble. The
prominence of the parties in the community
lends an interest to the publication, which
taken in connection with the mystery of
Richmond's disappearance, has created
widespread interest in anything which might
afford clue TO the motive or manner of his
sudden and unexplained departure. 1t is
the general belief that the doctor was insane
when he wrote the letters, and that his body
is now in the Missouri river.