Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-01
A SAD SUICIDE.
DesPOndent Young Svan Takes
2NiS own Life.

A DesPOndent Young STan Takes
1SiS own Life.
Three months ago young man about
twenty years OF age came tc Los Angeles
in search Of employment. His home
was originally in Ogdensourg, N. Y,
and he first found his way to this coast
In the nope OF averting e gathering lung
dlsease. The Little money that he
Drought with him was soon used and he
found himself dependent upon what he
could earn at work. The evidence is
plain that he sought far and near for en-
ployment, but was unable to secure any.
From letters which were found in his
room it appeared that he had no trade
and was inexperienced in business mat
ters. He had never worked for q living
and did not know what to do to get en-
pioyment. at last, in utter despair, he
killed himself.
The youths name was Charles E.
Rose. and he had been staying for some
time at No. 66 Banning street. He had
few friends and acquaintances, but such
as knew him spoke of him in the highest
terms. Wednesday night he went to his
room as usual, but in the morning did
not appear. About noon the daughter
OF the landlady, Louisa Doxey, went to
his room to make the bed and was
frightened at the white face which she
saw lying on the pillow. She summoned
her father, who, accompanied by neigh
Dor, went to the room. The young man
was dead, having evidently taken his
own life. In the side of his head was q
large bullet wound, and near at hand lay
the revolver. No one had heard any
report. The body gave evidence of life
having passed away number of hours
previous.
The body was moved to the morgue,
and in the afternoon an inquest was held
at which no facts not given in the above
account we're elected. No one could be
found to whom the suicide had ever ex-
pressed determination to take his own
life, although several had heard him say
that he was "broke," and that he would
have to write home for money.
The young mans room was in perfect
order. His rather scant wardrobe had
been carefully put in shape before he re-
tired to the bed where he had killed
himself. Among his possessions was
found package of letters which told q
very sad story. They were most of them
from his mother, and were filed with love
anu tcuueTu6S5 buCu as only mOLueE
could write to a son in trouble. She
begged him to remember that his embar-
rassment for money was only temporary,
and that he must certainly find some-
thing to do if he would only keep trying
He must not grow discouraged; almost
every man who was succe ssful had at
sometime passed through just such ex-
periences. She feared that he was back
ward about telling her all his troubles.
She could send him very little money,
but she would do all she could. In one
letter there had been an enclosure of So,
obtained evidently with much difficulty,
as the good mother was widow and de-
pendent for her support upon her rels-
tives. "You must not regret, said one
of the letters, "that you cannot send
money nome to me. Do not think of
that. If people only knew how good
son you had always been to me they
would be glad to find work for you, and
to help you, if need be-" Viewed in the
light of the final outcome of the young
mans troubles. the letters are intensely
pathetic, and indicate only too plainly
the sorrow which the writer will suffer
when she learns of the tragedy that has
taken place.