The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-15
NELSON PALM Err.
Further Particulars of the Sad Sui
eide.

The late Nelson Palmer, whose sad suicide
was telegraphed from Baltimore, was the
son of Bartlett Palmer who married the
daughter of Amos Chase of Saco, where the
family spent their summers. A dispatch in
the Boston Globe says: Every effort was
made by the influential friends of Nelson
Palmer, the stock broker, who committed
suicide last night in a cell in the Central po-
lice station, to hide his disgrace and prevent
the fact of the young mans suicide being
published. The coroner was prevailed
upon not to hold a post mortem, but letters
found on the body addressed to the mother
told too plainly young Palmer's intentions.
The jury accordingly rendered a verdict of
death from poison by his own hand.
When the children Of Brown Memorial
Presbyterian Sunday school assembled to-
day in the church many of them were in
tears at the sad downfall and terrible end
ing of their teacher. Palmer was very pop
ular with the Sunday school children, in
whom he manifested great interest. The
mother of the dead man is now on her way
home from Boston. A remarkable feature
of the suicide is the fact that no traces of
the poison of the vial or paper that con-
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cell or among the clothes Of the dead man.
His death was speedy. One hour after he
was before the magistrate and waived
hearing of the case he was cold in death.
His thorough knowledge of chemicals helped
him in his crime and served him in ending
his life. The body of Palmer was removed
to the elegant residence of Hiram Woods, a
distant relative.
The affair has created sensation in social
circles, for he was very popular, and the last
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His oldest brother, Prof. Chase Palmer, is
member of the faculty of the female normal
college at Salem. His sister is also in New
England Palmer, it was learned today, had
not been in the employ of Andrews, Potter
& Co. for some time.
He left them some time in December, and
the exact time will be important in the suits
brought Palmer, after leaving the firm,
went into business for himself After his
arrest he confessed to the chief of police that
he had lost all the money speculating in
railroad stocks The extent of the losses,
however, is not yet known Nelson's last
letter to his mother, found on his dead body,
was:
My Darling Mother
This is ali that is left of your loving boy Nelson
have tried to be a good son, but in the hour of
temptation, like so many others, yielded 1t was
not for any self-gratfcation that used the money
cumstanees. / have the satisfaction of knowing
that God will forgive, if people do not. / am
nearly crazy now thinking of the suffering have
brought upon you. may die tonight in grief. If
So please let me be buried in SacO. would rather
be buried there than any other place. Good bye
dear mother. God keep you and hold you up
under this aflictien. l am glad the cares and
worries are over God will take care of me now,
/ am sure.
There was no signature to the letter. The
place where he desires to be buried is near
the residence of his grandmother, Mrs.
Amos Chase, near Saco, Me- A letter re-
ceiyed by him in the station house Saturday
morning, from his mother in Boston, asked
him to be careful and live moderately, and
conveved the mothers blessing"