The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

I 4Sttet SN p1dlulhE MS action wDlle riding
( In the elevated train between Tenth and
/ Forty-seventh streets The letter said
/ that his step-graudmotherh had slandered
B him TO the girl he loved. Its ends.
Il expect to end my life with Sans
/ pistol or knife, which | will try To get
/ some way or the other. Good-by To all,
and my darling, angel annie, whom l in
/ tended to make my wife some day.
William NJ. Lord, a waiter who lived In
| Jersey City, came TO this city and engaged
a room at the Shelbourne house, where he
made elaborate plans for committing sui
/ eide. He wrote this note and placed il,
/ together with a faded flower, in an en-
velope addressed to Mrs. Kate Murphy:
Sister Katie: II you only knew how feel
ana all went through you would pity me. II
] ever you see my dear friend, John Fordham,
/ again do all you can to get him to go back to
his father and ne o good boy BE good 70
/ him, Katie, II he comes TO look at me when
/ am dead. Speak kindly to him for my sake.
| May COD bless YOU ali this night. Keep this
| blt OF flower for me, as ii was given TO me.
| guess 4 will have very little flowers at my
/ burial. Good-hy. Katie, 90 ali YOU can for
| for John and God will help you | am sure.
| FOUR poor brother, WILLIAM M LORD.
| After writing the letter Lord lay down
on the bed and took dose of paris green.
| Then he jumped up, rang the bell VIC
| lently, and shouted for an ambulance. He
was taken to Bellevue hospital and re-
| covered.
! On March 10 this litter was re ceived at
the coroners' Office:
My wife is killing me She is doing It pur-
| poselY. In fact her vicious temper. combined
| with an equally vicious tongue. would drive
| anybody 10 suicide. Five female relatives OF
my wife, living in the ueighhOrhood, are, and
| nave been. doing their best to make matters
worse. My wife is a devil. she is driving me
| to death. Because of her / will commit sui
| eide in a short time.
ADoLPH DICK 1Ol Suffolk steet.
! In my case marriage has been decided
| failure. A d.
! On March - Dick went home and drank
| some diluted carbolic acid He was taken
! TO Bellvue hospital under arrest.
Many persons who commit suicide
| leave letters which show that they were
cranks of one kind or another. The body
of a man was found in the East river. On
! his person was found a bulky manuscript
| containing history of his life. The
writer said that he had been chased all
over the world by a band of invisible enc
mics, who got every one down on him by
telling wicked stories about his personal
| life. Finally he had decided that the
! best way out of it was TO commit suicide.
! Another man left letter saving that
he had accidentally swallowed some dyna-
! mite and preferred the certainty of death
| by poison to the continual risk of being
! blown up the first time any one ran into
| him. The unidentified body of man
was found hanging from a tree near Tar
| rytown. In his pocket was letter
| which read: Every night | am visited
! by the angels. am told that there is a
| harp ready for me when l die, only
| don't know how TO play the harp. AS no
! one will kill me, guess I'll have to do IL
! myself or some one else will get my harp"
A few months ago the body of an Italian
was found in Central Park Over 5000 in
I 4
! He left letter written in a beautiful
! hand, in which he spoke of the green hills
of Italy, and the regret that he would
| never see them again. Then there was
! discourse on death, which ended:
The shade Of the cypress behind the
urns of the dead will soothe me and rem
der less terrible the dream of DEATH
The body was never identified.
! A majority of the letters are written by
! persons who commit suicide because they
! have been in trouble. Antoine Malaus-
! seua, who had been a soldier in the
! Frenco army, killed himself by jumping
! from the roof of his house into the street.
| He left this letter:
THE only motive for my act is this: In
! August 1890, was selected as a sharp
shooter for the shooting matches at
Lyons, given by the l06th territorial regi-
ment. To this end our colonel made us
practice twice a day. We each used
forty-ive cartridges at each shoot, and
the shock of the discharge of my gun
brought about noise in my ears which
| made me suffer night and day. Long ago
l wanted to kill myself, but because of
father, my little sister and Felix, was
restrained from my purpose"
Another trenchman, Joseph Arnoux,
left this:
Dear Friend: l kill myself because
this life is too hard for me. have too
much trouble Pardon me. / tell you
good-by. go to the other land, where
expect to have better luck"
Theodore Burckner a German painter,
shot himself at Newport L. l. His letter
said:
hereby notify you that I, Theodore
! Burckner, have taken my life disguised with
| life. Inability to obtain employment and
lameness of the right arm are the causes.
Joseph Bernhardt of 1878 Third avenue
shot himself. He wrote:
l am a soldier I am going to die like a
| soldier and 1 want to be cremated. No flow
ers This world is full of trouble. trouble.
Michael Curtis hanged himself in his
woodshed for this reason:
| l, being a sufferer from hypnotic torture,
take this method Of getting rid OF it. The
| undersigned believing himself to have been
| hypnOtized by some people, either near Four
! teenth street and Fourth avenue, or Fifty
ninth street and Ninth avenue, southeast cor
ner, writes this in case they drive me insane.
! The headquarters OF hypnotism in this city
NJ. F. CURTIS.
The building Curtis specified is occu-
! pied by the Salvation Army.
Some of the suicides leave letters in
| which they explain that no one is to be
! blamed for their death.
Marcello p. Delgardes a Spaniard,
| who took morphine, wrote;
Let no one be suspected or blamed for my
death. 1t is my own voluntary act. poisoned
| myself with morphine.
! j. b Moorehead, who shot himself in a
room at SO West Thrty-ifth street, left
| this note:
Coroner New York City-Dear Sir:
! have committed suicide, as per club. Please
| give verdict TO such effect and oblige, yours
! truly, j. b. M.
| 1t was said that Moorehead belonged to
a suicide club, but Superintendent
| Byrnes, who made careful investiga-
ton, came TO the conclusion that there
was no such club.
! A few days ago Henry Dahme, a wood
carver, shot and killed his wife and then
! himself at his home in Chicago. The po-
! lice found this letter in the house
We. the undersigned, had personally
! agreed to die together as my wife and my
| self are sickly and ailing, and other differ
! ences, arising from all sources. we had agreed
| 10 take the last resort, and bury US side by
side as we wish to be laid side by side.
"Of course, the great majority of sui
! cidpS leave no letters explaining their Ar