The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-17
OHIO MAN SUICIDES.
HE WAS A STRANGER AND WITH
OUT MONEY.
He Wrote a Letter to DR.. NJ. A.
Hughes and Then Took Dose of
ChIOral-The Inquest.

Charles H. cambridge, M. D., of Port
Clinton. Ohio, committed suicide early
Yesterday morning in his room at the
White House by taking a death draught
of hydrate of choral.
Thursday morning the gentleman reg
istered at the White House. 10 the
clerk he stated that he had just ar
rived from the east and intended to
continue his journey westward that
night. This he failed to do, however,
and Just before IL O'Clock retired for the
night. AS he left the office he said to
the clerk on watch: 81 will leave the
door of my room unlocked, because
will be hard to awake in the morning.
Call me at o'clock"
When, in accordance with the request
the bell boy at the hour named knock
ed upon the door of the gentleman's
ROOM there was no response, and the
youth ventured to put his head inside
the room, but quickly withdrew it, and
with blanched face hurried to the no.
tel office and reported that cambridge
was stretched out in bed, cold and life
less. Investigation bore out his state
ment. On the washstand was an empty
vial which had contained choral, and
the following letter:
Salt Lake City, March Is, 1894.
Dr. M. A. Hughes, Salt Lake, Utah:
Dear DR.. Hughes-I write you hop
ing that for ''old acquaintance sake"
you will comply with my wishes.
1 am in this city without money and
am about to shuttle off this mortal coil.
[ desire you to notify my wife or
mother at Port Clinton, Ohio, and ship
my remains to that point. 1 have a
SIS 900 policy upon my life in the New
York Life and Masonic Aid of yank-
| town, and either my wife or mother
will gladly remit the necessary expense.
1t is not necessary for me TO relate to
you all the circumstances which have
| led up to this act, long continued ill
ness, the spending of my last dollar
endeavoring to regain my. health with
out success.
AS I can neither beg nor steal this is
| the only way open for me. [ should
have been pleased to call upon you
but under the circumstances 1 could
not find it in my heart to do so. 1 have
not necessary. Very sincerely anc
truly,
c. II. CAMBRIDGE, M. D.
Among his personal effects was
found a medical graduation diploma
issued by the University of Louisville
Kentucky, in 1888, and signed by Isaac
Caldwell as president and James S
Partle as secretary of the institution
An inquest was held yesterday after
noon, information being elected to thu
effect that he had purchased twt
ounces of hydrate of choral at Ray
lay and company's drug store earl!
Thursday evening, and that he hat
remained there forQaa'bout an hou
chatting calmly on various question
but. never once intimating that he hat
made the purchaser for other thai
professional purposes.
The deceased was presumably be
tween thirty-two and thirty-fve year
of age, with dark brown hair an
moustache.
In an inside pocket of his coat wa
a written agreement duly execute
with Lea Bros. and company, pub
fishers of medical works in the cour
ties of Washington, Sarpy and Doug
5 lass, Nebraska. The document bear
E date Of February 18th of the presen
!, year.
{ The body is at the undertaking PAL
I lors of Sleeves & Son, where the ir
quest was held by Coroner Taylor
jury, which returned a verdict in az
cordance with the foregoing facts.
The father of the deceased has bee
E apprised by wire of his sons rash az
and asked for directions as to the di.
position of the body.
DR.. Hughes, to whom the suicide
: last letter was addressed yesterday a.
e ternoon, gave the following account
: his mountaineering with the d.
o ceased:
v Il have known very little of the d.
p ceased for the last seven or eigl
n wears, but before his graduation fro
the Louisville University of Medici1
n knew him quite well; but that
n more than ten years ago. said Il
doctor. Soon after his graduation
took up the practice of his professic
in northern Ohio, his native state.
1T There he remained for two or thr
e years and during that period marie
k a Miss Mitchell, daughter of Jof
4Mltchell, a prominent citizen of Q
taWa county. He was man
/ marked ability and from what
Il learned was very successful in his Or
{ fesslon, as was also his father befo
$ him.
e Later on he removed to Mitche
now in South Dakota, where pr
sumed he still resided. was
aware of his presence in this city un
II received mis- letter from the coron
is this morning, when he apprised me
n his death. The news was a decid
10 shock to me, and 1 was very soT
n that as a friend he did not call on n
~ las l would have been glad to ha
e. bridged him over his financial plig
n so far as l am aware his domes
$. life was nothing but the happiest a
w the case is indeed a sad one. 7 am
r. the opinion that this act was that OF
:. mad man and that he committed
S; terrible deed that deprived him of
eel life while brooding over his strand
st condition with reference to money
:, FAIRS
IS, MINING STOCKS.