The Red Cloud chief., 1897-12-24
A.. B. CAMPBELL A SUICIDE.
Noted Ex-Kansan Dead From Morphine
Died In a Chicag go Hotel.

Noted E1-Kansan Dead From Morphine
Died In a Chicago Hotel.
CHICAGO, Dec. 90. - General A. r.
Campbell, ex-adjutant general and ex.
chaplain OF the states prison Of Kan.
sas, for years one Of the most noted
Republican orators and lawyers Of the
state, committed suicide In a Clark
street hotel last night by taking NOR.
phine. lie left q letter to the coroner
and a will ~bequeathing his few valu.
ables to relatives. lie had been In
the hotel over a week, having regis
tered there as from Santa Monica,
Cal. at which place he formerly lived,
and where he recently ate mpted sui.
eide.
General Campbell's letter to the cor.
oner Is as follows;
~, Alexander d. Campbell, make
this statement Of the cause Of my
death to release the Of the
necessity Of IN inquest, and also to
let my friends know the motive that
led me to take my life. My death
will be caused by morphine, which I
have deliberately taken with suicidal
intent. This purpose vas fully
formed when l left Nashville, Ind,
and came to this city.
The reason l take my life Is be-
cause l want TO 90 to my wife and
boy. My usefulness in this world Is
ut an end. I cannot be satisfied in
any business and cannot be without
their companionship. 1 have never
been able to devote myself to business
since my wife died. and lost all inter-
est in life. In Los Angeles, Cal. 1
tried TO commit suicide, but did not
take enough Of the drug.
~ then went home to Rushvillc, but
found no comfort there. My friends
regarded me as a nan of unsound
miid because ] held the view that my
wife was with me in spirit always 1
have lived with her spirit guiding
every day and she Is with mo now as I
write this letter and helps me to do Us
I am o doing. will be with her
before another day goes by and l die
with pleasure. l am glad to GO with
my wife and baby boy. I have not
one single doubt or fear about my fu-
ture life with them l believe In God
and immortality.
Now. IL ] go among strangers tho
story OF my insanity o follows and I
do not care TO live such q life when 1
can in n few hours go to my wife and
boy. do not want any funeral serv-
ices over my body, and where l am
buried Is Of no consequence to me.
81 hope and trust the infinite. the
eternal, the merciful and loving God.
| worship Him aud feel no guilt in my
heart before Him for what am going
to do. Next to God I worship my wife
and boy and will soon be with them
aud with my father and mother, who
ore waiting for my coming. In the
other life I will be better able to
establish my sanity and hope to meet
oil my friends there when they come.
From 1885 until 1890 he was adju.
tan general by appointment OF Gov
Martin. This Office was given
to him on account OF his work for the
Republican party in lisa as president
Of the State Temperance union. In
1893 and 1894 he was adjutant general
Of the Kansas department Of the q. A.
Il. The killing Of his son, aged 0, by
n street car in Topeka caused him in
tense grief, and soon after his retire.
ment from the position of q. A. X.
adjutant general he went to Los
Angeles, Cal, where he undertook to
practice law. His wife died there of
q lingering illness early In 1895. He
took her body to Indiana for burial.
and on his way back to California
stopped ut Topeka, apparently in good
health.
On his return to California General
Campbell was deeply affected by his
wife's death, and soon brain fever de-
veloped. He broke down completely
during u public speech, and soon AZ
terward was found, ragged and dis
heveled, in a suburb Of Los Angeles.
lie was examined, declared a maniac,
and confined for a time in nm asylum.
On his release. as cured. he went to
his old home at Rushville, Ind, and
re ,umcd the practice OF law. Last
fall he made many speeches in Indiana
for Mckinley. lie then became an ar
| dent Spiritualist. and had lately neg
lected his business to devote himself
to that belief.
/ MARYVILLE MAN SHOT.