The age-herald., 1898-02-11

Fgagler, the daughter of the Standard oil magnate, and gave up his. intentions in that direction. He then set about start ing new kingdom on the Island of Trinf- dad, but the revolution in Brazil interfer- red with his plans. Papers found among the dead baron's effects indicate that he and his wife could not agree. He left some very rich jewels in his trunk here, one of them a crown. The baron arrived in Fl Paso on the Sd. instant, and remained quietly at the Pierson hotel not making known his identity.
 The baroness has been wired for instruc- tions as to the disposition of the remains.
 Drained It to the Dregs
 Baron Hickey's letter to his wife reads as follows:
 My Dearest:-No news from you, a1- though you have had plenty of time to answer. l expect to leave this hotel to- morrow or the day after. Hardy has writ ten me that he has no one in view for buying my land at present. Well. I shall have drained the cup of bitterness to the very dregs, but do not complain. pre- fer to be a dead gentleman to a living blackguard. Good bye l forgive your conduct towards me. and trust you will be able to forgive yourself.
 An examination of the body by the phy- sicians showed that the baron died of nor phine poisoning and that life had been ex- tine for many hours Very little money was found among his effects, and it Is presumed that poverty, together with the family trouble hnted at in the letter, was the moving factor in causing the suicide.
 On the hotel register he had written simply, Harden Hickey, Paris He had talked little with the other patrons and had kept closely at the hotel during his stay. It was learned from casual re- mark that he was expecting money from friends. Among his effects were found dozens of medals and insignia and papers of much interest. Many of them bore upon them his scheme for establishing mli- tary colony on the island of Trinidad, of which he was to be dictator.
 His papers also disclosed that he had been interested in other and more ambi- tious projects, notably a plot to place him at the head of a royalist government in Hawaii.
 There were also papers showing that he had been once possessed of large estates in the republic of Mexico. Among the newspaper clippings was an account of his marriage in New York city three years ago by Rev. John Hall to Anna Flagler. That the baron had only follswed his own teach ings in ending his life by poison was evil deneed by a book of which he was the author, entitled "Euthania, or the Ethics of Suicide" This little work was illus trated by cuts showing man cutting his throat in front of a mirror; a girl sitting in her chair beside a brasier of burning charcoal; man drowning himself from wharf; 8 man blowing his brains out while sitting bed, and a man lying on the floor with bottae of poison beside him. The subject matter was brief pithy para graphs showing a devilsh system Of phil osophy which the author had evolved. ? On the wicker chair beside the bed lay five shooter, the cylinder cells all loaded, also $6.50 in silver coin, box of wax matches and some articles of clothing with a letter addressed to him to the City or Mexico, care of the American club; $4eO in San Francisco drafts, also $30 in currency.
 One of the letters was from s. Q. s. Harvey, of Los Angeles. relative to delays in the selling of certain properties and asking when the baron was coming to Cal ifornia.
 In a grip belonging to the dead man was found quarter pound bottle of chloral hydrate, one quarter of which had been used also an eighth of an ounce bottle of morphine a good sized bottle of chlori- dine, a most powerful hypnotic, and there were, moreover, packages of hypodermic