The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-13

the same snip with him and when be
learned this ne was inclined TO be very
angry. The agent OF the Allan line told
Mr.. Samuel that the delay Of his baggage
was cansed by some failure of the rail-
road company in England to properly
handle them, and that they would come
along on the next Allan ship for Port
land, the Parisian. Mr.. samuel told the
people at the Allan offics that he was 60
ing TO New York at once and would re.
turn here in a week or ten days to get
his baggage. They assured him they
would be willing to forward 1t anywhere
he might designate. but he said IL would
be best for him to come hers after 1t.
But Mr.. Samuel did not 90 to New
York on November 2sth. Instead he
changed his hotel and went to the Prebls
house where he registered November goth
and where he remained until December
I'd. In this time he did not appear TO
have any callers or any particular busi-
ness. He left the Preble December Sd
and went TO New York. While there it
would seem that his actions led his
friends TO fear that he might take his
life. From one source in New York it
was learned that Samuel had been under
surveillance while he remained there.
and this would indicate that his suicide
was not unexpected. The man would 90
to the Battery Park, 30 one story goes,
and sit for hours looking at the water
with faithful watcher not far away
! from MIN. 1t was feared that he did not
20 to the Battery for the sole purpose Of
viewing the water. His brother has said
that during this time sidney was moody
and restless and apparently worrying
over his troubles which were the persecu-
tions of some ons whose name the brother
does not give.
While In New York 1t would appear
that Samuel told some one he intended to
return TO Southampton In time to pass
the holidays with his relatives. His
father Is a wealthy merchant in London
and this seemed reasonable to Samuel's
New York friends ana relatives. Did he
intend to go to England againf 1t would
not be an unreasonable conclusion to ar
rive at that the man threw this out in an
effort to cover his real Intentions. he
came to Portland Sunday night and the
next day went to the Allan line oiflce to
get his trunks. He found that they had
arrived here on the Partisan few days
before and when toll they were all right
he appeared to be delighted. He said
something to the local police here about
his delight ut getting his trunk again.
SAYING that "if had lost these trunks Il
would have been all up with me-"
Ths Allan people here gave him an or
der for his trunks which were to be de-
livered to him at the Boston and Maine
station He never took these trunks from
the station and they were recovered yes
terday by Coroner Rich who has not
opened them, and who will retain them
until he has some legal authority for
giving them up. When he got the order
for his trunk and the TWO valiEes Mr.
samuel said that he was going to New
Mex leo at once, SO 1t would seem that
either he had changed his mind alter
leaving New York or had never intended
to go to England at all Instead of going
to Nsw Mexico Samuel returned to this
West End hotel and there shot himself.
Before firing the fatal shot Samuel had
written letter TO his brother Montague
In New York. 1t was written a short
time before his death but 1t was never
sent. In his possession he had eight or
nine letters, all of them dated back into
1897 and relating to family and business
matters They had been torn up and
thrown into slop jar filled with water,
but were found by the police and after
being carefully dried some Of them could
be put together and read. 1t would ap-
pear by thes 9 letters that Samuel ana his
brothers Lionel and Montague were
members of the firm OF Samuel Hermanos
(brothers) exporters Of New York and
London. This letter which Sidney
Samuel wrote to his brother Montague he
had not sent, but the scraps of 1t were
found In the slop lar together with the
scraps of many other letters. In this last
letter which Samuel wrote he had told of
his intention TO take his own life because
OF somo financial troubles He said moth
ing about being bounded by a woman,
but explained some Of the troubles which
worried him to his brother. de also gave
some directions regarding his nersonal
estate and some other matters. The
tone of the letter was rational and there
was nothing which could be construed as
strengthening the story that he had shot
himself because of any woman.
From finding the letter IN the slop jar
10 would indicate that at the last moment
the man had decided not to send 1t and
had torn 1t up. He might have sent an
other letter similar in tone some time
Sunday night, but nothing has been
learned to indicate that he did. The po-
lice have this letter complete after many
hours work by Deputy Marshal Firth,
VINO refuses to make it public bnt who
says 1t shall te fent to the brother with
some of the other letters whoh have heen
pieced together.
From the New York end comes the
following story of this statement made
by Montague Samuel under the date of