The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
IUMRLfD WORDS
TELL OF INSANITY
Disconnected Letter Left by
Nathan Dimick for
His Wife.
Believing She Did Not Love
Him, He Had Resolved TO
End His Career.
Saata Cruz's Coroner Unable TO Locate
the Money Possessed by the
Suicide.

SANTA CRUZ, CAL, Jan. 29.-The DIM
ick tragedy is still the chief subject dis
cussed here. That Dimick set fire to his
dwelling seems to admit of no dispute.
That he took his own life seems evident
from the letter found by f. J. Boulter
yesterday, which is generally accepted as
genuine.
But there is O suspicion in the minds OF
many that Dimick did not intend to cut
short his existence in the manner in which
the end came.
1t was suggested early in the Coroner's
investigation that it would be well to de-
termine by autopsy whether or not DIM
ick had taken poison, but this was not
done.
The position in which the body was
found Indicated that he was trying to
escape when overcome, and the fact that
he told his wife before her departure that
he would lie down and rest is taken TO in
dicate an intention to take poison after
having fired the house.
He had expressed desire that his body
should be cremated, and it is thought he
planned to accomplish this after toe drug
had rendered him unconscious.
The letter, which was discovered in a
place where it would presumably have
been safe had the house been destroyed,
was as follows:
Dear Hattie: 1 do love you yet, but cannot
endure the long-con tinued silence with YOU.
You do not love me, by your actions. Win
you forgive me wnen I am asleep? So good
by. do this myself in my right mind to get
rid of trouble. N. b. DIMICK.
The letter was written in firm hand,
but the writer's hand seems to have been
less steady when he addressed the en-
velope, which bore the following super
scription: "Mrs. Fl. s. Dimick, Penn.
ave-, 93.'
This letter was admitted as evidence
and Unidentified by witnesses before the
| Coroner's Jury. When compared with
other letters written by Dimlck. it was
found to be less clear in expression and
| firm IN penmanShip, but there was no
doubt as to its genuineness.
After large numb Der OF witnesses had
| been examined the jury rendered ver-
| suicide while TEN porarily insane.
The disposition Of more than $500 in
gold, which was withdrawn by Dimick
| from the City Bank and the Santa Cruz
| Bank of Savings and Loans on December
| 26, 1896, is a mystery.
1t had been thought this might be ex-
planned before the Coroner, put the wit
what had been done with the money.
Mrs. Dimick did not know that her hus-
band had drawn the money. She testi-
| fed that their relations had been pleasant,
but Dimick was not salts fed to remain in
Santa Cruz, while.she thought they had
good enough home here and ought to stay.
Captain Sager, collector for the Him
Company, which supplies water on the east
side, testified that when Dimick paid his
water bill on January IL, he said that it
| was the last water bill that he would ever
| pay.
Sager asked if Dimick intended to go to
San Diego, to which he replied that he did
not know, but that Sager wound not find
him there when he presented his bill next
month.
Witness said Dimick was restless and
wanted to sell out and go away. He
seemed very different mentally from what
he did six months ago. Various incidents
described by other witnesses showed
Dimick's restless desire to get away from
Santa Cruz.
Just before the inquest closed the Coro-
ner heard that A. L. Hill had received
sum of money from Dimick, to be sent
East. Mr.. Hill was sent for, but declared
that he had received no money and knew
nothing OF it.
He said Dlmick's first wife was buried
at Salisbury, Mo-, in December, 1895,
where the remains were taken from here
by Dimick and niece and nephew of the
deceased wife, who had come here durln g
her illness.