The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-06
ROBERT FARRELL WAS INSANE,
SOME INFORMATION CONCERN.
ING THE OGDEN SUICIDE.
Counting His eK-wife and Mary
Lansing at the Same TIme-Ar-
rested at San Francisco.

San Francisco Gail: Robert Farrell,
who was ARRESTED last week for send
ing indecent ard threatening postal
cards to his ex-wife, Mary, at the home
of tar employer in Ross valley, COM
Ihltted suicide at Ogden a day or SO
after he had been released on bald.
There is no doubt in the minds of those
who knew him that he was insane.
His postals to his divorced wife were
10 the effect that although she was
NOT hts ideal he loved her sim and
wanted hrr to go back to him. The
nnisgGves were OF such an aunov4ng
character that she complained TO the
Postofflce inspectors and caused his ar
rest. j. ". Beatty and G. II. Du1s
moor WENT On his bonds for 500 and
Farrell was released from custody last
Thursday. On she next day ne started
for the east, and when he reached Og-
den he killed himself while in a de-
spoRdent mood. He had been drinking
heavily adl the week. and when he was
taken before Court Commissioner Hea-
Geek he was situpefed and exhibited
symptoms of delirdum trenlens.
The dispatches from Ogden announc-
ing his death said that he had been
writing threatening letters TO a woman
in Portland, Ore, Iamed Mary Lansing,
accusing her Of having stolen valuaDles
from him. He seemed to be co1~ting
her at the same time that he was max
ing Warmed-oYer love to his divorced
wife, and in the case Of the Portland
Mary also. with all her faults, he loved
her still.
The postofIiee inspectors received yes
teI6ay q letter from man named
H. P. Dyer. al Portland, written by
Farrell iuIt before he left this CITY,
threatening to kiH both Dyer and the
( Lansing woman. The letter was idan-
! titled as being in Farresls handwriting
1 and all doubt as 10 the Identity of the
! Ogden suicide was disEipeted Nest of
| the letter. by reason of iHdeeeTcy. is not
! fit for reading, but the following e0-
/ tracts Will give an idea OF the ddsor-
/ deCed STATE of the unfortunate man S
mind:
] San Francisco. Aug. 81. 1897. Russ
! H1NSe.-H. P. Dyer: Vile beingi Your
/ vile and lying letter just received this
nloFUsrlg On my arrival from Sag lose
You are the lying 4iaIef and bur
/ glaT that Mary Lansing has displayed
| you in her afTi5ayifs which 1 have
While l would like to Kill you [ VIII
not, but I VIII Go this. inside of three
months L will cripple you for life.
! Before this, however, l will kin Mary
( Lansing. I leave tonight by the so1tin-
! Si4 Luz 1rSuS AS-dlAO ~ l.. L Ai1s
! woman. married CO sSGgle. wiz Eave1
live Wt.n another man. TIE ms robbed
me 10 pay your bills. ana at the Same
rirne prr3fessed the greatest love fol
me. / love her still, and because l love
her I am going to kill her.
The question may be asked why
love her. I only know that [ love her
That is all 1 can say l can make hel
happy. / suppose I eTn a fcUl. but
] ,o1r I
is not locking for me, and if you like
you can be ON your guard but l wi!
wing you just the same, work where
you may AS I leave tonight fol
New York you can, if you have tlS
sand. answer there and bring about {
meeting.
Farrell was weN known in the south
ern part Of this state, where ne wa
connected With country newspapers 20
many years During the last seseior
of the legislature he was ernpsoyed a.
nigGlt waaoarnan IN the senate chamber