The San Francisco call., 1898-12-20
J0SSELYN WAS NOT
 AN ASSASSIN'S VICTIM
A PROBABILITY THAT HE C0M-
 MITTED SUICIDE.
Peculiar Action of His Relatives, Who Seek to Make It Appear
 That He Was Murdered.

Lockwood H. Josselyn, the young sol dier who was found dead in the bathtub at the home of his parents, Al Geary street, Sunday morning, was not the vic tim Of foul play, despite the intimation or his relatives that he met death at the hands of some assassin.
 For some ineXplicable reason they have sought to uphold the theory that the young man was murdered, but a careful investigation by Deteculve Tom Gibson suostantiated by the autopsy, disproves this.
 In the opinion of Gibson, Josselyn either committed suicide or died from the ef- feet of alcohol for, although the young mans parents maintain that he never touched liquor, it is known positively that ne was drinking heavily last Saturday night. If Josselyn ended his life by means Of poison, an analysis of the sto- mach, which will be made to-day, will undoubtedly disclose that fact, unless he LOOK some poison which leaves no trace behind, for Josselyn was an expert in poisons and would have had no difficulty Tn choosing some means of death that would not be disclosed by chemicals.
 Josseiyn, in company with l.. M. Oak iey, left the cineograph parlor on Mar iz:lO Sunday night. They went to the Metropole saloon, a few doors from their place Of business, where they had two drinks. From there they went to the Olympic and had two drinks more. At Q CLOCK they went to a restaurant on Iaylor street. where they had supper. from there the couple proceeded to 2 Mason street and sat down to a game of poker. During the game Josselyn had three drinks of whisky and three drinks or gin; He lost about $5 all that re- ograph establishment He was some what under the influence of liquor, and Oakley accompanied him to his home Al Geary street, leaving him at the door. They arrived there at 4:15 a. m. On the way home Josselyn remarked that he had promised to give his mother $6 50, but ne didn't know where the money was coming from.
 It would have been utterly impossible Tor anybody to have attacked Josselyn ana carried the body up the two flights the dark unhampered by any burden whatever without arousing the entire household unless he was thoroughly fa- miliar with the place.
 Josselyn has been quite Respondent of late, and 1t is said that the sole object Of his visit here was to seek a reconcilia- tion with his divorced wife, but she re- fused to have anything more to do with him.. A few years ago he was found by his father in an unconscious condition in a room at 520 Eddy street, where the family then lived, from the effects of gas which he had evidently turned on with suicidal intent.
 Sunday morning, soon after the body was found, Mrs. Josselyn stated that Lockwood had told her that some time he would be found dead in the bathtub. The family asserted that when they re- moved the body to his room and took his clothing off they saw several suspicious marks on his throat and a bruise on the head as though he had received a violent blow, but yesterday when Dr. Gallagher held the autopsy he was unable to find any of the marks described and all the organs were in healthy condition, with the possible exception of the stomach, which will be tested to-day.
 The youngest sister of the deceased, who discovered the body, told the detective yesterday that when she entered the bathroom she noticed a peculiar smell Her stepmother sharply told her not to say anything. From this and other cir cumstances. the officer thinks the family are satisfied that the young man commit ted suicide, but in order to escape the odium are trying to make it appear that he was murdered.
 While in camp at Chickamauga last summer Josselyn had an attack of ty- phoid fever, and it is possible that in his weakened condition the liquor he drank Saturday night caused his death as he entered the bathroom, his body falling Int n ha f1Ih