New-York tribune., 1900-12-01
GUARDSuAN A SUICIDE
DEsPONDENT MEMBER OF THE TTH
REGIMENT SHOOTS HIMSELF IN
A APOUGHKEEPsIE HOTEL
THE REV. ROBERT Il PADDOCK.

Poughkeepse. n. Y. Nov 3O.-wTIIam H Os-
borne. twenty-eight years old. clerk IN the
employ OF the French CGbIe Company. at No.
A Broad-st.. Eew-York. committed suicide In
the Nelson House IN this city. this evening. BY
shooting himself IN the right temple. The sui
eide Is enshroudPd with considerable mystery.
Osborne. who arrived IN PouShksepsie on
Monday last. had registered as Hugh J. Wilson.
His Identity was established by letters found
on his person from his father. H. Osborne. who
is said to be manager OF the French Gable Com
pRny's Cape Cod STA: :I0n at Orleans. Mass.s his
sister. Ada c. Osborne OF Providence. and from
a woman Who signed herself simply Florence.
This last mentioned letter WaS pOstmarEed New
York and FetsTre,I % The young mans requiring
money. Is mentiOneA thst The writer had seen
lis father and would ssad ain Sons money. and
it Was learned thAa hu received q Telegraph
money order to-day for -
The letters Which ~ 20. 49, - -
'"F~ A,4sa rsless's- ls sgaa8sa, % soOH a. ne ar
s''@@ fie tia sor ,ssaal aeaaaintances
slls2t hs WaB a S1sabe- % he Tth Regiment. He
Was tAIL handsome With smooth. round face,
thick black hair. and lookei like an athlete. On
"Wednesday night nc ca!.s1 " Ncw-York asked
fot 'JsI Hariem" ami had Miss Florence Day
sent Tor. he hal c-uvcUsatIoa with her, which
apparently had Z, DO with Ihe receipt of the let
ser and money OTdrr today.
lie told tn hotel baEnfT this afternoon that
he felt unWeu and intended 20 60 home to-
morrow 70 see his family physician. He was
very nervous. Then ~ went 20 the desk, got
his key. asked b. called at $50 .. N.
and went 10 his room This about Sis
Twenty minutes later a report heard In
b TIE room The door was forced and the young
found lying on his red clutching a
/ revolver IN his right hand and with bullet IN
his brain. He unconscious and died in the
/ ambulance on his way to Vassar Hospital
At the Offices OF the French Cable telegraph
! Company the manager in charge said last night
that young Osborne had been employed there for
! hve or six years. He had worked steadily up to
! last Saturday night. but not known TO have
any explanation OF his absence. His position
was that OF counter clerk. receiving messages
l Osborne vSs unmarried and lived somewhere In
Harlem.
Miss Florence Day lives with her sister. Mrs
/ August Cirenet No 24S West northumberland
/ twenty -frst-st. She had been terms OF very
i friendship with Osborne gOr about Il year
/ and they often talked over the telephone. The
| condition OF Miss Day last night. when abe was in
\ formed Of OsEorncs suicide, pitabls She be-
/ hysterIcaI that no allowed to see her Her
sister. Mrs Grpnct. sah th't Osborne left the city
/ a week ago saying he was going 20 take a trip TO
I Albany business. He tefegFaphed 10 Miss Day
/ on Wednesday. she said. Mrs GFenef added that
Osborne seemed to her have been despOnaent for
] the last month two. but she did not know why
All she knew OF him, that she could then recoIlect
| was that he was a member OF Company r. 7th
/ Regiment She did not know hts residenSe ad-
/ dress.