The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-05
LETTERS OF SUICIDES.
Pathos and Fippancy Shown by
Their Contents
The Trif1es Which Rave Caused Some
People to Take Their Own Lives
sad Results of Mental Tn
soundness.

Nothing in the newspapers is more
pitiful than the constantly recurring
paragraphs which contain the last let
tiers of suicide The pathos OF them
Is not obscured by the absurd made
quacy of the reasons which they only
too often advance for self-destruction.
In fact, says the Boston Globe, the
intensity of the minds emotions is
often greater when the troubles are
small, SO curious is the mental state of
those bordering on alteration.
Not very long ago baron shot him
self IN Livonian watering-place, and
his reason was that life was too mo-
notonous;" and a young man killed him
self last year in Liverpool hotel, hav-
ing written on the back OF map: This
Is all through love God forgive me.
Good-by"
Infinitely more touching was the last
letter Of girl at Highield. She spoke
of her premature and self-willed
death" and said:
Il feel as though wanted to be far
away from everybody, and I know very
well they can see by my face how mis-
cradle am"
She ''felt as though she were eoine
mad" but she did not forget others.
Tell - my last prayer was that he
would forget me and try to forgive me.
l love him st1l with all nv heart, but I
can never marry him in this state OF
mind Let him read this, and tell him
| hope he viii get some brighter and
happier girl to be his wife" Strange.
morbid fears seemed to beset her, and
TO escape them she died.
An octogenarian general left letter
lately defending the propriety of his
suicide. Said he:
when an individual life has run its
cycle and become a waste of nature in
the body, overwhelming its mental and
physical qualities with weakness and
pain to an intolerable degree, it NAV.
with all propriety. be removed.
''Such being the case with the life of
the writer, his apology to the world is
by these terms made through his most
beloved and most intimate friends. who
he trusts will appreciate the relief to
him from ceaseless distress, which. in
his opinion, ought to be brought BY the
physician who is summoned with his
drugs, surely for that purpose, but not
for cure
A caretaker hanged himself, and his
last letter said: 81 have got to leave
here, but have no money to paw for
room and nowhere to lay my head"
a Rermondsey grocer had not so def
mite reason as hopelessness.
Break it gently to my poor wife, he
wrote. Il cannot fight the battle of life
any longer. Ny poor head is bursting.
l hope the Lord viii provide for her and
my poor boy"
A Warwickshire tradesman was "un-
able to bear it any longer" but his let
ter requested an accountant to go
through his books"
But, for almost fippant indifference.
few suicides letters equal that of an
English accountant, who took sulphate
OF norphia in Chicago hotel three
years ago. He wrote:
DEAR CHARLIE-Goodwin promised
to leave three dollars that he borrowed
from me at the hotel, but did not do so. (
VIII you tell him to pay HalloweI, be- !
tween State and Wabash, forty cents
and Newfeit twenty-five cents That.
think, covers my whisky bills.
Il will my carcass to some medical .
institute for them to try and find out
why the mental and physical nachin- ,
cry Of my system did not pull together. /
With kind regards to the boys. who
tried so hard to make bad egg good,
am yours in death, as well as in life.
DICK -
1t is sorrowful yet altogether prof
itess branch of investigation, this: and
1t IS sad fact that the opportunities