The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-09
a snieide,s interesting Letter.

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A Suicides Interesting letter.
Thomas r. Bates. forty-three years, old of
Haddonfield, N. j., who diedin the Penn
sylvania Hospital, at Philadelphia, en-
Thursday night, from q pistol shot wound
self-inflicted, in a house on Fourth street.
below South, on Wednesday last, LETT
several letters which were yesterday
made public. One says:-'To prevent
n foolish surmises about my death |
hereby state that | shot myself because |
am suffering internally from physical
pain. l am no coward but | do this be-
lieving that / am only a trouble to eve ry-
one. The few relatives | have left Will
benefit by my death. My divorced wife
will be the loser, but she is married again
and it may not materially affect her.
But for her / might have been a happy
man, seated by my own treside, with
children playing around me. Now l die
a drunkard in a house of i'll fame.
with my last breath | say that the
kindness denied me by others has been
shown me by these women, whose only
fault is man has made them what they
are. DO not blame Annie, Nell or
Sophia" This was signed Dick"
Another letter is addressed to Wilmot
Holland, No. % Lawrence lane, Cheap
side, London. England, in which he init
mates his intention to kill himself and
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sufferer in a financial point of view by
losing the insurance. A third letter is to
Charles S. Braddock, Haddonfield, N. j.,
assigning mental trouble and physical
pain as the causes for the suicide, n
thanking him for his friendship. Papers
found in possession of the dead man show
that his life was insured for 10000 in
England.
How Camden Republicans Stole a District.
John Harris, the Republican Assembly
man, who was elected in the Second dis
trict of Camden on Tuesday by a plu-
rality of 2S7, has been informed that an
effort will be made by the Democrats in
the House of Assembly to have his seat
declared vacant and the place given to
Allen Hubbs, the Democrat whom Harris
defeated. The form of contest will not
be resorted to-. A resolution will be in
troduced declaring no election i'll this dis
trict, which will be referred to a com
mittee, and they, is is said. will endorse
the resolution throwing Harris out and
either appointing Hubs to the vacancy
or requesting another election.
The claim for this action will be based
on the assumption that the Second As
sembiy district, whose boundary lines
were fixed by the Assembly, can not be
changed by any other legislative body.
Last winter the Legislature fixed the
boundary line of this district, which was
to comprise the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh
wards and one ward in Stockton town
ship. Last summer Camden City Coun-
ell changed the boundary lines of the
Sixth ward and added a small portion of
the Eighth ward, which is now the First
district. By the new boundary about
one hundred and twenty-five Republicans
and t%hirty-hve Democrats were added to
the district from this ward. This the
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They do not need the seat occupied by
Harris, but they want to find who has
the greatest power, the Legislature or
Council. AS it may be Of great import
ance in the future, they are determined
TO have the matter settled this winter.