The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-10-13

Or T. walter, CuIc pioPiiCtoi Vi tuc
Palace hotel, with, "plesse hand 10
one of the boys on their arrival" 1t
lie as follows:
MY DEAR BROTHER OR BROTHERS !:
If you thiak not best to take me
home, bury me here. You should
find in my possession $50 80 in cash
and notes to give me decent bury
ing and pay your expenses. am dis
gusted, and ready to die, have been
feeling very bad for the past few days
and have concluded to take my life.
Please don't think hard of me for it,
for it is an easy matter to do. and you
will not miss me, as we do not get to
see one another often, no way.
Thanking you for all you have done
for me and l trust when We meet
again it will be in Heaven. What a
grand meeting that will be! Thank
God, he has my heart and l trust he
will not refuse me to enter into the
Kingdom of Heaven. Tell the folks
at home that / am thinking Of them
and that l want them to meet me in
the grand and glorious eternity.
! May God be with you all is my
prayer. Goodbye, forever.
| At 8 o'clock the body was removed
from the hotel to McLaughlins' and
Constable Ramsey at once
SUMMONED A JURY,
composed o, the following gentlemen
Messrs. w. d. Owens, j q. Perdue,
| F. F. Westzel, j. w. Bryan, l. y.
Morris and j. A. Fisher. The testl-
mony in the case is summarized IN the
above and the verdict of the jury was
in accordance with the facts as stated.
II Mr.. George Edmonson, chief clerk
of Supt. L. +. Sheldon, stated on the
witness stand that he knew deceased
slightly in an official way. He had
been working temporarily for the
!. Missouri Pacific company on the
Eastern division at Hermann, No.,
. and was then transferred to Rich
Hill. 81 wired him an order on the
Sth irs.., said Mr.. Edmcndson, "to
have him sent from there to Horace,
Kan. received reply that he had
started for Sedalia. He came here
on the Sth, but for some reason failed
to report to our office"
William Walter, brother of the
) deceased. who is also a telegraph
Operator in St. Louis, arrived in the
fcity yesterday afternoon, and at once
t hastened to the undertaking
rooms. 1t was an affecting
scene-this young man standing and
: weeping above
THE COLD REMAINS
, of him who had so cruelty slain him
self. The IS calibre ball had lodged
Just within the skin above the right
ear and had made but little disfgure-
; ment. The light blonde hair wss
neatly brushed back from fac, high
forehead, and the handsome, youth
: full features were so placid IS to leave
> hut trif;ng trace of the tragic end Of
this unhappy mortal.
In a brief interview with the broth.
ler from st. Louis, be
! said to a BAzoo representative, 81
! can not understand why Henry should
). have done this. / can not imagine
I the remotest cause. He was a sober
. young man and of a happy, light
hearted disposition. After leaving
y school about three years ago, he en-
Q tered the telegraph service and bad
y worked for the c. B. & O., and Mis-
souri, Pacific roads. He had Away
e been thrifty and faithful. The las
q time l saw him was in St. Loui
s' about two weeks ago, when he stayet
day with me as he ~as on his way
to Hermann, Mo. There was M
70 sign of anything wrong with hin
:. then. There has never been any
|. trace or
TAINT OF SUICIDE
= in our family. Our mother is dead
e Our father, who is sixty years old
resides in Arenzville, ILL.,, and thi
4 affair will be . hard blow to him
: My brother was twenty-four years OLE
v and unmarried"
y Last evening, on the 5:45 trail
3 from the north, DR.. F. Walter, an
70 other brother Of the deceased, and .
:. practising physician at Perry, Rail
|, county, No., arrived in the city, ant
n was seen Q little later by BAzoo req
tie resentative.
to 81 should not have been more sur
' prised had the moon dropped from
,e the sky, than l was when 1 received
the telegram announcing my brother
r. suicide" sadly said the doctor. III
visited me about six weeks ago i
ia Perry. and seemed in his usual cheer
,is full and buoyant mood. He was neve