El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-10
FRENCH BARON SUICIDES.
Baron Harden Hickey, SOn-in-Iaw of
Standard Oil Maguate Dies
From MOrnhina.

STANDARD vi MdguaC6 UloS
From Morphine.
The biggest sensation that has been
sprung on the town for many day
was brought to light this noon at the
Pierson hotel, when Manager Fisher
entered the room of Baron Harden
Hickey, q noted French nObleman,
why he had not arisen. The reason
was very evid ent, the man was cO-pse,
and lay there on his right side with his
arms partially stretched out at light
angles from his body on the bed. The
right eye was open, the other was
closed, the countenance was of livid
yellow, while the lips and under the
evidently died during the night,
could not tell, and sent for
Emerson & Berrien to take charge of
the body, and then called up several
physicisns. DR.. Gallagher responded
shortly with Justice B-i1gers. and q
physician stopping here temporarily
with his family from Morrison, Illi-
nols, DR.. Gray. A HERALD reporter
and guest of the hotel repaired to the
room on DR.. CAL gher's arrival.
DR.. Gallagher did not venture posi-
tive opinion from such cursory ex-
animation as he then was able to give;
but on overhauling the dead mans
effects, found enough deadly poisons to
have killed q reg ment of men; and the
discovery of letter written on the
night Of the 9Th inst. and book writ
ten by the deceased showed conclusive
ly that the man had taken his own life,
although an autopsy might be neces-
rhe ietter which had never
reached the postoffice, was opened
by the justice. It was directed to
Baroness Harden Hickey, Corana.
Riverside, Calf It was dated on Pier
son hotel paper and read as follows:
MY dearest: No news from you, al
though you have had plenty of time to
answer my last letter. I expect to
leave this hotel tomorrow, or the day
after. Harvey hiss written me
that he has no one in view in
buying my land at present. Well.
I shall have drained the cup of Bit
terness to the very drees; but L do not
complain. I prefer to be dead gen
tlemau to living BLACKBOARD like
your father. Good-bJ e, forgive you
your conduct towards me-, aud trust
you will be able to forgive yourself.
Ever affectionatly' came a
name evidently q pet name which no
or e in the room was able to make out.
The book referred to was entitled
Euthannsia, or the Ethics of Suicide
written by the deceased, and publish
ed by the Truth Seeker publishing
company OF NV York. This little
work was illustrated by cuts showing
a man cutting his throat in front of q
mirror, girl suiciding in her chair
beside q bra zier of burning charcoal,
a man drowning himself from . wharf.
q man blowing his brains out
while sitting on his bed, and a man
lying on his floor with bottle of
deadly poison beside him. The subject;
matter was in brief, pithy paragraphs
showing a most devilish system of
philosophy which the author had
evolved from an inner consciousness
that had been poisoned by hellish pro-
cesses Of reasoning. 1t went Ingersoll.
never in this palmiest moments, ever
devised such arguments in favor of tax
ing ones life. The noting OF the book
alone gave every one in the room the
impression that the dead man before
them was suicide. On the wicker
chair beside the bed lay five shooter
all loaded, also $6 so in silver coin, a
box Of wax matches. small articles of
clothing, with letter printed
hims elf from California to the City of
Mexico care of the American club. In
going through Hickey's effects, the
justice and Mr.. Fisher found $3.50 in
San Francisco drafts on Wells-Fargo,
also $50 in currency. One of the let
ters was from G.. @. Harvey Of Los An
eeles relative to delays N the selling
of certain properties, and asking when
the baron was coming to California.
In grip belonging to the dead man
DR.. Gallagher found quarter pound
bottle OF choral hydrate, ore quarter
of which had been used: also, an eighth
ounce bottle OF morphine; also good
sized bottle of chlorid yne-a most
powerful hypnotic, and there
syrinQes, email packages
of morphine. packages of whiskey,
and a number of packages of drugs OF
various kinds, including box of lozen-
ges of a sulphur salt that DR. Gray said