Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-04-20
A sTocKMAN COMMITS SUICIDE
NAPOLEON DAVIS rouND DEAD IN A
CENEsEE STREET HOTEL.
came From Grcnotn, kns.. Inst Fri
day Win cattle, witch lie
soid-tcft Letters to
tiis son and wife.

Lying prone on his back IN a room in ths
| stock hotel az lsu Geuesee street. Napo
! leon Davis. q stolkman. ot Grcnola Kas.
] hfeathcd his last at 80 last night the Vic.
! tim cf asphy Nistion. Every detail In con.
| neetion with Davis death points 10 suicide
! lie was discovered I'm an unconscious con
/ dition yesterday morning at s o'clock by
] The night clerk Of the hotel. whose attcu-
/ ton was attracted 20 the room hy the odor
I OF escaping gas The door was thrust
| open and physician summoned but all
/ EFFORTS TO resu-citate tho unfortunate man
proved unayailiur. and he died without
having regatued Coust iousuess He lcft
/ three letters, one 20 the proprietor Of the
| hotel u. Lo Hines. one TO his son at Grcn-
oit which contained q check and one TO
h.s wife.
Mr Davis came 10 Kansas city last Fri
ntf with toGr carloads OF cattle. which he
| sold TO Tho : gol-SdndcrS Live Stock COM
mission Company on Saturday. receiving a
-h'lk from them. After spending tn, day
in ami about The city he went to the hotel
about ~ O'Clock Saturday night and was
given room. tio made remark that he
wa suffering from neuralgia Of the heart.
anu 'ial been to see q physician during the
spirits. tic left NO Cdil for the morning
SaNihE hg was tired and wanted to sleep
.a''. NolhIht more was seen of him unul
hi~ unconscious body was found on the bed
yesterday morning by the clerk
paws htu 'Flttntly made every IrepaIa-
ZION to 20, bE bic own hands. Ills letters
denoted This. lu tue letter to Nj Le Hines
ht sam He was sufferer from heart dis
,as" ami directed that. II h. died during
and son hy the FIRST mail
% ,H.y failed to respond promptly. he re-
qH.-f,i Thar they hy teleEraphei for lie
Qua not want go he lrft go the care of
s'raUs,rs. The letter to his son contained
the money he haI with him and i'm Id the
son vas rauh3r'i not 20 pla." the money
appropriate II 90 hts own use. MIR Davis
was "N1'nilN in poor financial as well as
PHYSICAL condition. The letter 20 his wife
was not opened. il appeared 10 he quite
a lengthy document. After writing the let
room. Mr bavs ys siossd P' All tbs shV wndaNs ~ ms
ANA the door iuH laid down to die frst
taking great care that the gas jets Mere
lla haI evidently been unconscious from
iho hgw OF gas some hours when his body
Th,odor. A sghaoflsr responded 70 a cali
AIu worked with the dyng man until $3.50
afIo. Hn rNr8sn W RgolS5dT Rg Nrr'n Aeo9l snr
Eepu Hyde was notified of Davis condition
hy on" ~ the attending physicians, but he
50 l1uI as two physicians were az work ON
the case II seemed hopeless from the
Mr Davis was large man. weighing.
apparently, =" pounds. he was :" years
9!1 and had full gray beard and hair Of
byrS HE family consists beside the wife
aBi SON addressed with letters He has a
brother, " r. Davis, at Anon. Np. who Is
also % siu" "kmau and was iu kansas city
Thursday and Friday and stopped at the
Transient hotel af sixteenth and B.li
streets. " Morel'y was with W. Il
Davis. from Ayuu
coroner Hclforl was notified Of the
death uf Mr. Davis hy a journal reporter
after DO had occurred and trl-
,phuu'l his deputy pr. W ;. Wheeler 10
take charge of "a, body. pr Wheeler va-
not at his office whom the telephone mes
sax" was delivered. ANA when b, returned |
seine time later hr was informed that TN
J"rtakrr carroll hal th. holy ai hts rooms |
on Mrier street hr having gone for b at /
ihr .u-uFtfiuu ~ Nr. lse Hines. who took /
th' matter lu his own hands. l'-Vito the /
iINi.u OF Ir. S hl'nar. Tho latter i'm
'Hrm,i Deputy Coroner Wheeler that he |
would certify tu the tUust OF MIR. Davis
death ANA tho matter was allowed TO rest /
.ast uiEht br. Wheeler will however. look 1
into the case to-day. lI' viii also hold ln |
inquest Davis body vii Dc sent ~ Gryn.
old. for buriaL