The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-17
Members of the Family Incline
TO the Theory of Foul
Play.
IDOLIZED BY SWEETHEART.
His Last Letter, to Her Sis
ter, indicated His
Intention.

| street. brother of Charles :. Kiilalee. who
committed suicide Wednesday near Sedalia.
| reached Sedalia yesterday afternoon. He
arrived too late 10 attend the inquest. which
was held in the morning, n verdict of suicide
| by poison being returned.
From the tenor of special dispatch re-
| ceived by The Republic from Sedalia last
night it would appear that killalee is not
| willing TO accept the theory of suicide. and
has asked the police to assist in making n
| thorough investigation of the case. The
| telegram says:
| Coroner McCluney held an inquest this
| morning into the death of Charles s. killa-
lee and the jury returned verdict of sui
eide by strychnine and other poisonous sub
| stances.
'Killalee arrived in Sedala at $50 last
| Friday morning and secured a room at the
| Salvation Army Hotel. opposite the city
| Hall. He made few friends while here. and
| seemed TO be in poor health and Respondent
| He said he looking for employment
| Yesterday morning he purchased Il solution
! containing one grain of strychnine from Lse
| Meyer a clerk in NIertz & Hale's drug
| store. telling the clerk that in former years
| he had been a hard drinker and had con-
| tracted u stomach trouble, which only
/
| >" o.'.''tie "ou'N ''
ne had purchase" arsenic III pms VI o,'e-
| twentieth OF grain each from another
| clerk and in another drug store bought j
! box of morphine tablets
While being brought back to Sedalia
| from Flat Creek he told Fireman Acorn.
one of the men who saved him from
! drowning in the creek. that he first drank
| all of the solution of strychnine. and. as it
did not seem To taka effect he also took
~, ..,, ,-,u, ,s
the arsenic ana noFphihe. Nittalee M,L'
conscious up to the moment OF ms dealn.
| The exact words used by him in ascribinG
| a cause for attempting SUICIDE were IN an
| swer to question ny Fireman Acorn !
| am OUT OF empIoyhe out oI I'oIes' any any
my sWeetaeart mas s''ei, me 'ie cuI',
snouiuer, | uo ilol caie ~ nv any .o,s 81.
she was good sirl, ne lrelue,l.is re-
peated, and, opening gold locket Whlch ne
wore as a charm on his watch chain. he
showed the picture Of his sweetheart TO
| Jranl, Schultz and Fireman Alcorn. He
| a., In -, ,,,,o,, 49,, r,,riatura
ui'o WHY e'S uI
ms Las. Le''er'
The last letter killalee wrote was not
| addressed. but was probably intended for
| Mrs George F. Eaton sister of Miss
Connellv Killalee,s aftianced It was writ
ten in indel;hIe nencfl and is a beautiful
specimen Oh haho"r'tihs' A's contents ioi-
low: , --,
Hattie: l have followed my plans; l
could not live and be happy, although
| blame no one but myself. The time will
come when she shall know 1 am innocent,
and may God bless her is my sincere wish.
DC u-e '. N' .'
| remain your friend.
CHARLIE kiLLALEE.
kilisiee care Hoehmer Coal Company.
St Louis
ION the reverse side was written as a
int I frt,n md
whoever told anything has told her a lie,
and some day it shall all be found out i
bv.'
..o., ., 80 1,,u II c,,.,a, ...
Ch cara Oh 1nii u. snerioa1, attorney
! at-law, suite No. % Laclede building, found
| in Killalee's pocket. was written: "Tele-
n,a,r,nrond,,y, Of y dsnosi, or 90 70, or 20 %
! ;n .ho pnatm,on,s RanE 81 "I,iS Va F'''''
From the evidence brought out at the
coroner's inonest i, was ths nninion Of the
Jurors that Killalee was temporarily in in
Ss fI, a. e c''tnT nromorcS fnr nc Iaatb Ee
baS t,aJ ,rrancai he snanniar inv cross and
InotosEapn 1i d ss.sr VI ciaIt,s ia,a -. Az d
pc "o ne % the ho.ton -. an az ,bo ~
e. VI isis 1e, ~ s',. r..;,S NV, va
onts Wy was .ssh noI,u M ~ ,,,s povnets 70
se.net rIi ;oats Tntdsw tba Coroner seerchnd
9sti pniS, ,ae,s .aS ,r,n,5 az the Sa,vation ArmV
hhdiee q uiln a. -, uie - 90 ~ ->ii1's
hofei anu iniieu " nv any ttios .h s,,,o,5o
r. j; hlllaiee, brotner OF the Suiciae,
arrived mere thIS afternoon anu WIS cioseteu
with Chief OF Ponce Love
1t Is known that CnarIes hiiialee !e1t 81.
Louis in company ve 9t 1--WE s,rsat @. ms r ehn rer
FRANK ShultZ. an On'e StLeet orus cIerk.
and a man by the name Oh Murray a FORMER
empioye OF the ST. Louis transit company
and that the trio arrived mere.
s.;, uo 1v,. co;,r IN n.,r.-
| nv "e ~
when they left st. Louis they told their
| friends their destination was Denver, Cole.
Charles killalee on Thursday afternoon
| called on his sister in East St. Louis to bid
| her good-by and gave her the photographs
of his chums, Shultz and Murray, request
| ing her to keep them for him until he re-
turned. or until he found location. He
! told his sister that he was going to Denver
| with party of friends all of whom were
out of work and expected to get employ
ment there
'Killalee showed his sister letters of
recommendation furnished him by the st.
Louis lraisa. @ f;ra n, "n,eh ne t1ouSn.
street railway. He would not go to rail-
| exceptionally good offer, as it was his pur-
| pose If nothing else turned up, to engage
| An the grocery business in Denver. He told
| his sister that he had between 5000 and $500
amount sufficient to start in business. His
| brother says the sister did not see the
| money, but is certain that he had it in his
pockets. She had been his confdante and
had never known him TO lie.
When the young man died in Sedalia only
Murray has not appeared. and Schultz.
| II Is said. took train out of Sedalia last
| night. He had been subpoenaed to appear
! as witness at the Coroner's inquest, but
| he did not show up and cannot be found.
THE story that killalee had been dis
| SiDating has net been confirmed M ono